Liz Cheney made something of a splash in her debut as a Fox News panelist yesterday. After being introduced on Fox News Sunday by Chris Wallace as a “former State Department official, daughter of the former vice president, and first-time panelist,” Cheney had an, um, interesting take on President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“The president himself understands he didn’t earn this prize,” Cheney said. “And I think, therefore, the notion that, as the White House has said, he would go to Oslo to accept the prize would just sort of add to the farce.”
Cheney continued:
What he ought to do, frankly, is send the mother of a fallen American solider to accept the prize on behalf of the U.S. military.
That would be a reminder to the Nobel committee, Cheney said, “that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because of the U.S. armed forces, because the U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeping force in the world today.”
What the committee believes is, they’d like to live in a world in which America’s not dominant. And I think if you look at the language of the citation, you can see that they talk about President Obama ruling in a way that makes sense to the majority of the people of the world. Americans don’t elect a president to do that. We elect a president to defend our national interest. They may believe that President Obama also doesn’t believe in American dominance and they may have been trying to affirm that belief with the prize. I think, unfortunately, they may be right, and I think it’s a concern.
Quite a first appearance. We’ve asked Fox News whether we can expect more Cheney panel sightings on Fox News Sunday, but haven’t heard back yet. We’ll keep you posted.
Late Update: Here’s the video.
Late Late Update: An inside source tells TPM that while it’s certainly possible there will be more Cheney panel sightings, there are no plans for her to be a regular.
