Dan Savage TKO's Mary Cheney

Over at The Stranger, a Seattle alternative newspaper, Dan Savage kicks the poo out of Mary Cheney's hypocrisy. Lessons: When you make yourself a public figure you don't get to pick and choose when and how you are public If your lifestyle is one that your very powerful family spends its public life excoriating in others, expect there to be blowback.

Dick Cheney has tried to claim some sort of filial immunity on the matter of his public-figure daughter's sexuality. And he has tried to paint Democrats who raise the issue -- and who support gay rights! -- as somehow crossing some line. It actually is an astounding level of chutzpah inasmuch as this latter tactic has actually worked -- remember the mock outrage on the part of conservatives, especially pundits, when Kerry raised Chaney's naked grandstanding in 2004.