MSNBC Discovers Cheney's Sins Only When He Disses Trump
MSNBC's recent op-ed, 'Don't whitewash Dick Cheney's legacy just because he criticized Trump,' attempts to posthumously hold the former Vice President accountable. Yet, for years, mainstream outlets like MSNBC largely presented Cheney as a 'statesman' (Source: Rachel Maddow, 2018 interview with Liz Cheney). His foundational role in pushing the 2003 Iraq War, based on fabricated WMD intelligence,
leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and destabilizing an entire region, was often framed as 'decisive leadership' or 'post-9/11 necessity.' This sudden burst of moral clarity concerning Cheney's legacy appears suspiciously timed, emerging concurrent with his criticisms of a certain ex-President. Odd how the narrative shifts when the neoconservative establishment finds common ground against
a populist threat. One might wonder if the network's principled stand extends to scrutinizing the current administration's foreign policy with the same vigor, or if warmongering only becomes an issue when it’s politically convenient.