Mary, Queen of Squats

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/2/06 at 11:08pm

OH, THOSE CRAZY CHENEYS; FAMILY VALUES OF THE WORST
KIND

Gene Stone: Mary, Queen of Squat
Gene Stone Thu Jun 15, 9:43 PM ET


Vice president Dick Cheney has just announced that he
is traveling to Minnesota to campaign for a Republican
congressional candidate named Michele Bachmann. If
Bachmann has any recognition nationally, it's due to
her shrill homophobia--she's one of those ultra-right
wingers who's convinced there's a homosexual plot to
take over the country. During a recent gay rights
rally in Minneapolis, Bachmann was famously
photographed squatting in the bushes, spying on just
what it was that gay men and women do at these
rallies. (She must have been disappointed to realize
the answer
was: Rally.)

Has Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, said
anything about her father's support of one the
nation's poster children for homophobia? Nope. In
fact, has Mary Cheney said anything recently about the
Republican party's never-ceasing battle against gays?
Nope.

Although she has gone on record supporting gay
marriage (which her father, his boss, and all of her
fellow Republicans stridently repudiate), Mary Cheney
has also gone on record opposing politicians who
support gays. She has called Democrat John Kerry a
"son of a bitch," and has made it clear that she
considers herself a blissfully happy republican.

On the other hand, Ms. Cheney has made a great deal of
money as a gay rights advocate, both in a corporate
sense (as a "liaison to the gay community," the kind
of position that usually means you do nothing but
accept money and act gay), and as an author--Simon and
Schuster paid Cheney one million dollars to write a
book about her life.

Thus, the openly gay Ms. Cheney seems to support gay
rights only to the extent she can get money from it.
Otherwise, she supports those who oppose it. When you
don't stand for anything at all, however, no one
stands with you. The homophobic right wing has no
respect for Mary Cheney, the more liberal gay
community considers her a traitor, and no one in the
middle cares.

It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that Mary Cheney's
book, Now It's My Turn (a title horribly reminiscent
of Nancy Reagan's own attempt at self-justification,
My Turn), is more than just a dismal disaster. It is
the Hurricane Katrina of recently published books.
Given a reported advance of one million dollars, it
has sold about six thousand copies, which means the
publisher has lost over 90 percent of its investment
so far. (Random disclosure: I wrote a satirical book
about Mary Cheney's father Dick called Duck! for
which I an advance that amounted to less than 5
percent of Mary Cheney's, but my book has outsold
hers. Then again, Osama bin Laden's Etiquette Guide
for Jewish Newlyweds would outsell Mary Cheney.)

Baffling to most people is why an otherwise
intelligent company would publish such a disaster.
(Second random disclosure: I was once an editor at
S&S, still have friends there, and think very highly
of the company). For that you can mostly blame Mary
Matalin, whom S&S hired to create a line of
conservative books. Maybe Matalin has learned her
first lesson in publishing: When an author's only
interest seems to be herself, it doesn't really matter
what her background is, conservative, liberal, middle
of the road, gay, or straight. No one other than the
author cares.

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[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:02am

no comments? I'm surprised....Joey? Anyone? Bueller.....Bueller, Bueller?

[peach]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:15am

And they call Kerry a flip-flopper?

What a disgrace. if you can't stand for something fully, Mary, keep your darn mouth shut. I for one have no interest in reading her book!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:32am

This is surprising why?
Mary's book, I am sure, was advanced on the assumption that all the Homos would just love to hear all the secret lesbian Cheney family secrets. Little did they know that no one gives a **** about this disgraceful woman.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:35am

uh Sueleen, what was surprising (to me) was that no one commented on the post. Nothing IN the post suprises me at all......

I would scratch my own eyes out before reading that book.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:36am

I wouldn't buy it, but I would read it. Train wrecks can be fun, if you aren't on the train, of course.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:31am

She really had an opportunity to do something great for the gay community but instead just did what was best for her and its disgusting.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:34am

Mary Cheney's an ignorant cow? I'm shocked.




ETA Brilliant thread title elphaba.

Updated On: 7/3/06 at 11:34 AM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 1:01pm

sadly Zone I cannot take credit for it.....it was the authors title......but I love it, too.

Posted: 7/3/06 at 1:42pm

Wasn't she the Gay/Lesbian liason for Coors? I always thought that was deeply ironic, sort of like being the Kosher caterer for the PLO.

I wonder if her business card says she's "Lesbian for Hire."

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 1:53pm

Please, like Mary is only gay for pay.
That bull couldn't hide what she is anymore than she could pull off a dress and heels.
It's people like her who make the phrase "I can't afford to be a single-issue voter" laughable for me.