Has Bill Safire been living in a cave in the woods?

Where has he been? In his NY Times OpEd piece The Lowest Blow this morning, he says "Until that moment [in the debate], only political junkies knew that a member of the Cheney family serving on the campaign staff was homosexual."

Really, Mr. Safire!! Mary Cheney has been a professional Lesbian for years. She was the official Coors liasion with the Gay public repairing public relations damage of beer company incurred way back in the 70s for homophobic actions and comments that caused them to lose significant business in the Gay world who boycotted Coors beer for a time. In addition, Ms. Cheney's Lesbianism has been public knowledge since the last debates in 2000 when Dick Cheney publically distanced himself from George W. Bush's homophobic pandering to the religious right. Rather than "outing" Ms. Cheney, both Kerry and Edwards, if anything, outed the rank hypocrisy of mom and pop Cheney in claiming love for a daughter then hiding her out of sight so they could condemn [so-called] Defense of Marriage Act, a staple in the GOP attempts to demonize Gay men and Lesbians.

Talk about contorted! I love my gay daughter, but I don't think she and her partner deserve to be treated with the respect due to people in a committed relationship.

Safire once again shows his butt to the world. Come out of the cave, Bill!