Our Steve Scott spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham about Cheney’s ouster and the larger issue of misinformation and disinformation in American politics and society in general.
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While NBC’s
Today show was eager to hail Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney for bashing fellow Republicans during an exclusive interview on Thursday, back in 2012, the broadcast questioned whether her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, deserved a life-saving heart transplant. That was just one of a number of instances where the network morning show trashed him as “one of the most controversial figures of our time” and “Darth Vader.”
During a report on then-71-year-old Dick Cheney’s heart transplant in March of 2012, the
Today show touted how his vile left-wing critics “are questioning whether someone that old should be getting one.” The network’s chief medical editor at the time, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, wailed: “.this has raised a lot of ethical questions, moral questions, about whether the Vice President, in fact, should have received his heart against – ahead of other people. And, raises the question, how old is too old to rece
GOP Conference Chair. Roy was nominated to the position by Colorado Congressman
Ken Buck. New York Congresswoman
Elise Stefanik is also running for the job and has the support of former
President Trump and GOP House leadership. Trump thinks Ro
y has not done a great job and suggested he be primaried next year. Roy has gotten the endorsement of the advocacy group
FreedomWorks, which praised him for his conservative record. The House GOP removed Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney as conference chair earlier this week.
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After being removed from House GOP leadership in a 16 minute closed door voice vote, Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney said, “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.” Nicolle Wallace said, “she sees her own party as a threat to democracy, and a threat to our national security.”