In the 1980s I had a chance to briefly talk to Wyoming’s Alan Simpson when he was the co author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration act, when I was a reporter covering immigration reform as my beat on the San Diego Union newspaper. He was crisp, content-heavy, bluntly honest — and credible. And in my non-journalists role, I may not have always agreed with him but if he said something I knew he meant it. Now Dick Cheney’s wife Lynne Cheney has gotten into a high-profile battle with him that calls into question his honesty about what he reportedly said to her.
Lynne Cheney will lose. Big time.
Just GO HERE and read Simpson’s account of what happened. Wyoming knows Alan Simpson. And this will NOT help her daughter Liz Cheney win election to the Senate.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.