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Liz Cheney Championed the Truth and Then Embraced a Liar—Her Dad<!-- wp:html --><p>Getty Images</p> <p>As Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/liz-cheney-is-ready-to-follow-donald-trump-to-the-gates-of-hell">Liz Cheney</a> made her high-minded pronouncements about the importance of truth and courage and genuine patriotism during the congressional hearing into the Jan. 6 insurrection, she was shadowed by a question that fairness left largely unspoken.</p> <p>“What about your freaking father?”</p> <p>But one of the propelling principles of the hearing-turned-reality-show was justice. And to have held former <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-and-dick-cheneys-stupid-trump-tricks">Vice President Dick Cheney’s lies</a> and cowardice against her would have been blaming the child for the sins of the father.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/liz-cheney-championed-the-truth-about-jn-6-and-then-embraced-a-liar-in-her-dad-dick-cheney?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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As Rep. Liz Cheney made her high-minded pronouncements about the importance of truth and courage and genuine patriotism during the congressional hearing into the Jan. 6 insurrection, she was shadowed by a question that fairness left largely unspoken.

“What about your freaking father?”

But one of the propelling principles of the hearing-turned-reality-show was justice. And to have held former Vice President Dick Cheney’s lies and cowardice against her would have been blaming the child for the sins of the father.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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