Coming Up: Kennedy’s Legacy, Health Care, The CIA’s Interrogation Tactics, The Deficit and More

George I am so disappointed in the “roundtable” seat that you are constantly offering to Lynn Cheney. This woman has all but called the President of the United States unpatriotic. Furthermore, who is Lynn Cheney? Without her daddy’s name and without being his daughter, she would not sit at anybody’s roundtable other than the Fox’s channel, and everyone knows by now what that channel represents. I won’t be watching, even though I would love to hear from Gwen. Please find reputable quest in the future. Is Lynn Cheney crediable? I think not. It’s her personal agenda, and who needs to listen anymore to these “self-serving, riding coattails” anymore. In the honor of Senator Kennedy, real patriots are Not self-serving, but serves their country.

George I think you should remove yourself from the roundtable discussions.It seems unfair to have a very biased liberal in the position of moderator.That goes for all the other reporting that you do,state the facts and let the viewers decide,,don’t put your liberal spin on everything.

Once again Liz Cheney gets a national forum for her Right-wing ideas.
George, do you have the courage to reach ‘Outside the Beltway’ and invite one of us ‘on the left’ to come ‘Inside Washington’ to join your discussion. Add me to your list of ‘Proudly Liberal’ citizens willing to participate.
I disagree with those who say you put a Liberal spin on everything; not true. You ask tough questions [most of the time], usually tougher on your Liberal Guests than on your Conservative ones.

Lynn Cheney does not belong at the table. It is not a 1ST. Amendment issue. It is not Right or Left. I questioned her qualifications last time she was at the table. It appears I am not the only one.
First Amendment right also invokes responsibility. Lynn has not lived up to the second part of the 1ST Amendment. She also has not demonstrated any qualifications as compared to the rest of panelists’.
I miss Huntly Brinkley days. I relied on BBC London to survive WWII, looks like I have to continue with BBC for trustworthy information to supplement PBS.

George,
I, too, will not be watching this week and the reason is Liz Cheney. As long as you’re giving her a platform to play defense for her father would you please ask her at least one good question. How about this one: “Liz, why should anyone believe your father after all the lying he has done in the past?” And George, if you do ask that question, please use the Google to educate yourself first. Search Cheney/Lies and you’ll find many examples to refute Liz’s answer. But of course she’ll deny all of her father’s misdeeds and you won’t be able defend the question.

I have just finished watching the Roundtable and I am truly disgusted by the way that Lynne Cheney feels that if she just talks over everyone that her opinion is more valid than anyone else at the table.She won’t let anyone finish there thought or opinion. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

After watching your Roundtable this week, I felt compelled to send my first comment to any political show. Liz Cheney took a usually polite discourse of differing ideas and turned it into a shouting match. I will never watch another This Week broadcast in which she is a participant. I hope you will reconsider having her as a panelist.

I agree with all that has been said about Liz Cheney. She is rude, a hypocrite, and has no class. George needs a gavel to shut her and others like her up.

I agree with everyone that Liz Cheney does not belong on the round table. I have no issue with her stating her views, but she is as obnoxious and rude as her father in stating her views. Please explain to her that it is a round table, not her show.
Please don’t invite her again!

liz cheney should not been present the the table to act as a advocate and “spin doctor” for her father who is the architect of the “enhanced interrogation”. George stephanopoulos allowed Miss. Cheney to talk over other guesses and she there fore she received more time to defend her daddy. Shame on George Stephanopoulos and ABC news for not see the obvious! Maybe next week I,ll skip “This Week” on ABC and watch that kind of bais on FOX NEWS.

PLEASE noooooooooo more Liz Cheney…
She is just toooo disrespectful….

I had the awful experience after not watching this week for awhile to turn it on this morning to of all people; Liz Cheney. Why oh why do you give this woman a platform? Many thanks though to Sam Donaldson who was the only one to challenge her by having to talk over her while everyone else sat silent. I will not be watching again! Sorry George; your program has sunk to a new low by having her on.

Lynn Cheney should not be part of this discussion panel, as she has a vested interest in the topic of CIA torture. If they dig too deep, her daddy goes to the Hague for war crimes!

I AGREE — I didn’t even know WHO that rude woman was, so I checked out the website to find out. I’m so glad the concensus is PLEASE, don’t let her on again. George ususally maintains control during the roundtable — letting each participant have his/her say. Cheney had the controls today, and try as Sam Donaldson did, he was not able to get in a response. Nobody was able to keep her from bullying the conversation. What a shame. I will not watch again if she is on the panel.

I see I am not the only one who was totally annoyed by Liz Cheney’s subjective agenda and methods. I am disappointed when the roundtable is all male, but I would prefer that any time to the disruptive self-serving agenda of Liz Cheney. Daddy’s little girl is a chip off the old block. Haven’t we already heard too much from both of them.

What is the point of having Liz Cheney in your round table? Are you trying to promote her & her father recklessness in America’s policies?

George, I have been a weekly viewer of your show for many years, and have appreciated the balanced right/left positions presented on topics on “The Round Table”. I don’t think I remember a time I watched, when one invitee talked over, borderline shouted down, the other dissenting opinions voiced. Liz Cheney, who clearly is defending the vulnerability of her father from an investigation “going up the food chain” for his responsibility for the “enhanced interrogation techniques” employed during the Bush Administration, was rude and single minded with her well known personal agenda. What she would lend to your group is beyond me. There are plenty of highly qualified conservative alternatives. Mr. Will, whom I deeply respect and disagree with the majority of the time, always provides his well thought out, reasoned point of view, articulated with respect and clear consideration of differing thinking. Even George Will was squirming under the Liz Cheney diatribe. As to Mr. Donaldson, it was a pleasure, and a disappointment at the same time, that he alone picked up the gantlet to address Ms. Cheney’s “talking points” of the extreme right. Her approach was right out of the “Right’s” Town Hall playbook…shout your opponent down so no one can discuss opposing thinking civilly.

I cannot believe that you pay to hear anything that miss Cheney says.She only hears herself and no one else. In the future if she is on your roundtable I will just change channels I would rather watch informercials. I hope that you don’t think this sparks debate because you can’t have a debate with ignorant though well educated people you only get noise.

I agree with everyone above. Liz Cheney sucks. What an annoying shrew.

Ms.Cheney is only focus on protecting her father,not the United States in getting to the truth,if crimes were done. After the weapons of mass destruction was told to American citizens on why we needed to go to war. Please Ms. Cheney,use your fame to fight for something good like passing health care reform with a public plan for all the citizen, education reform and other thing that United States need your support with.

Lynn Cheney’s has a right to her opinion. What offended me this morning was how she lowered the level of discourse by continuing to “talk over” the other commentators. Please do not turn the best Sunday morning network news show into a rant fest where the most obnoxious speaker gets the most air time. It isn’t just the content of the show that we appreciate, its also the dignity of allowing all opinions to be heard. Lynn Cheney’s performance this morning should reason to never ask her back.

Liz Cheney is the WRONG person to have in any discussion about health care reform.
She is more concerned with how to demean President Obama than that 47-million Americans have no health insurance. She is more interested in defending her family’s stake in illegal and outrageous decisions regarding the treatment of fellow men, than even a slight of true concern for fellow Americans who face daily life without basic quality (medical and dental care).
I think 9 of 10 Americans would like nothing better than to watch Liz and Mary on a new reality TV show called ‘How much can you take before you break’! … and we the viewing public get to decide that threshold!!
She is a buffoon and it offends me to see ABC place such low-life guttural trash in the same space with those who really care.

It is very disappointing to hear from all corners that the CIA interrogations should be judged in terms of their results. The ends justify the means in other words and with that logic “Hey slavery was wrong but just look at how much cotton was picked”! The terrorists are succeeding because Americans, including the mighty George Will, are scared out of their principles. This morning we learn that the release of the Lockerbie bomber was tied to a British Oil deal. America sets the example – no longer the leader of the free world but the Chief Compromiser.

I am a longtime fan of This Week, but that may change. I enjoy the show because unlike a number of other programs where the people just shout at or over each other, during the round table segment I can hear reasoned and respectful debate of important issues. I am a progressive democrat, but enjoy hearing George Will’s perspective and comments.
This seems to be changing. Not sure if it’s in the pursuit of better ratings or some other reason. Today’s show, with Miss Cheny and Sam Donaldson talking over each other and, especially Miss Cheney, trying to monopolize the conversation, made me want to turn off my TV. Or probably more relevant to you, switch over to Meet the Press which plays during the same time slot in my area. And a couple weeks ago, I was very surprised to see Michelle Malkin on the show. Completely partisan and just the type of person I don’t believe has the credentials to be on This Week. And when Miss Malkin stated something along the lines of “people with extended unemployment benefits just wait until 3 weeks before it runs out before looking for a job” I almost hurled my breakfast. That was a disgusting and ignorant comment.
Please get the show back on track. Or else you will lose me, and I think a lot of viewers who enjoy your program.

To the knuckleheads who are defending Liz (not Lynne) Cheney’s “telling the truth to liberals,” I say that here very words implicate her. She referred to previous CIA investigations having been conducted by “career civil servants,” while neglecting to say that they were conducted on the Bush watch when everything was subject to political pressure to get the right message — even those done by “career civil servants.” Furthermore, this came from an Administration that frequently supported the notion that the country didn’t want things done by “government bureaucrats!” Well just what is a “career civil servant” but a “government bureaucrat?”
Liz Cheney is a shill for her chicken-hawk father who doesn’t seem to have the guts to appear on any network but “FixNoise.” Liz, go back wherever your father is hiding out and stop trying to appear respectable when you can never be respectable.

No matter how hard Replican’s try or how many times they are allowed by the spineless modern press to lie about factual history without challenge, the official history of the past 12 years will not honor the GOP or the ratings-based press the enabled them. The GOP, their hacks, continue the legacy of favoring religion over the constitution, the rich over the poor and middle class, predujudice and racism over diversity, equality and freedom, ignorance over intellect and science, division over compromise, and big corporate America, their lobbists, their money, over the majority of the America’s hard working, fairminded citizens.