FC: White House nastygrams whitehouse.org over Lynne Cheney parody

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

See:
http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/lynne.asp
> IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE: Mrs. Cheney's husband wishes you to be aware (SEE 
> LETTER AND STATEMENT) that some/all of the biographic information 
> contained on this PARODY page about Mrs. Cheney may not actually be true. 
> Indeed, it may all be lies propagated by the many people whom she rubbed 
> the wrong way during her long and still-unfolding life as a controversial 
> public figure. You know how political vipers gossip! Besides, how on earth 
> is one to know whether an interesting tidbit arises from fact or from the 
> seamy whispers of mendacious Chatty Cathys? That said, the editors of 
> WHITEHOUSE.ORG are confident that any rumors about Mrs. Cheney formerly 
> being a crystal meth pusher are 100% likely to be absolutely untrue. 
> Similarly, any stories about her penchant for licking Brandy Alexanders 
> off the hirsute belly of her spouse are all lies, lies, lies!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/nyregion/06PARO.html

Web Site Hears From Dick Cheney After Parody Involving Wife
By BENJAMIN WEISER

ice President Dick Cheney's office has spurred an unusual dispute by asking 
a Web site that parodies the Bush administration to remove a satirical 
biography and pictures of the vice president's wife, Lynne.

After receiving the request in a letter from Mr. Cheney's counsel, the Web 
site doctored the photographs of Mrs. Cheney, adding a red clown nose and 
blackening out one of her front teeth, said its creator John A. Wooden.

"The letter is, if you read it carefully, it is only a request," he said. 
"But there's really no such thing as a request from the vice president's 
office. It's a threatening letter."

The New York Civil Liberties Union said yesterday that it would go to court 
to defend the parody's posting if Mr. Cheney's office did not back down 
from its request.
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