on diversions

so, the mary cheney flap. Dick Cheney himself has been using her sexuality on the campaign trail. Click here to watch a Human Rights Campaign ad with him on the stump on Aug. 24, 2004: "Lynne and I have a gay daughter ... "
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interestingly enough, they were silent when GOP nutjob Alan Keyes said that Mary Cheney was a "selfish hedonist" (for engaging in non-procreative sex).

In an interview with SIRUS satellite radio, the Internet's Drudge Report said Wednesday, Keyes called Mary Cheney "a 'selfish hedonist' because she is a lesbian."

Keyes said: "The essence of ... family life remains procreation. If we embrace homosexuality as a proper basis for marriage, we are saying that it's possible to have a marriage state that in principal excludes procreation and is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism."

Asked whether that meant Mary Cheney "is a selfish hedonist," Keyes said: "That goes by definition. Of course she is."

um... lynne? dick? where's your outrage about that?

so...if any of you think that a four-day flap about mary cheney was anything BUT a diversion, i'd be interested to know. notice how we didn't hear about bush's falsehood in the third debate--that he never said he wasn't concerned about osama? here's the proof of what he said in that press conference (click on clip link). notice how we didn't hear that john kerry swept all three debates? poll numbers say that kerry was perceived to win all three debates by 57-27, or something like that. i seem to have lost that link somehow. but you get the point...