MSNBC's Wagner Tries, Fails to Make 'Pretzel' Out of Liz Cheney's Stand on Gay Marriage

Ken Shepherd | September 3, 2013
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In a brief segment on the September 3 edition of Now with Alex Wagner, the MSNBC program's host revel in how Republican Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney has supposedly "contort[ed]" herself into an "ideological pretzel." But if you listen closely to the 2009 soundbite that Wagner thinks illustrates that Cheney has flip-flopped on the issue of same-sex marriage, it actually underscores no change in position on her views.

What's more, as I explain towards the end of ny NewsBusters post, it seems MSNBC is once again guilty of selectively editing, with the target this time being former Vice President Dick Cheney.


Read more at NewsBusters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/09/03/msnbcs-wagner-tries-fails-make-pretzel-out-liz-cheneys-stand-gay-marri#ixzz2drmAl9Ay

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