Dick Cheney used to relish being called Darth Vadar during his stint as George W. Bush’s Vice President, but today it was Fox News that went to the Dark Side. The Rupert Murdoch-owed outlet covered former President George W. Bush speaking today at Cheney’s power player packed funeral and it even showed former President Joe Biden taking his seat in the pews of the Washington’s National Cathedral. However, there was not a line of former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney’s eulogy for her father to be found on Fox Thursday. As CNN, MS Now and the BBC took live the often emotional and personal words of the one-tine Republican vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U. S. Capitol, Fox today stayed with a Outnumbered couch discussion about the “shocking ignorance” in schools when it comes to American history. The irony is that Outnumbered was ignoring Donald Trump foe Liz Cheney as American history was actually occurring in real time at the National Cathedral. The cable newser also went into a segment slamming Democrats on “biological males” competing in female sports. Representatives for Fox did not respond to Deadline’s request for comment on why they did not cover Liz Cheney’s eulogy. It must be noted only CNN stayed on the two-hour long Cheney funeral to the very end and the playing of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. MS Now and the BBC cut to other news not long after Liz Cheney concluded her speech. In her remarks, the younger Cheney, who was demoted in the GOP and later run out of her extremely safe seat by a vengeful Trump for daring to question the MAGA line, spoke to this time in America through her often-controversial father. “He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans,” she said of the powerful Veep who a former White House Chief of Staff was also a Congressman, a Defense Secretary and a corporate CEO. “For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all,” Cheney’s eldest daughter told the more than 1, 000 attendees in the Cathedral Thursday and those watching at home and online. Along with the choice by Fox not to cover Liz Cheney’s eulogy, there was also a choice by the Cheney family not to invite the current POTUS or VPOTUS to today’s funeral. That unsurprising snub aside, along with W and Biden ex-VPs Al Gore, Dan Qualye, Mike Pence and Kamala Harris were in attendance along with Senate leaders and other luminaries. No one mentioned Trump’s name at the funeral. Dick Cheney died on November 3 at the age of 84. A late convert to the anti-Trump camp after the former Apprentice host lashed out at Liz Cheney for participating in the Congressional probe of the attack on the Capitol four years ago, Dick Cheney made it very clear he was voting for Democrat Harris in the 2024 election. Liz Cheney, who was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Biden just before he left office this year, appeared at a number of campaign rallies with then VP Harris and was widely seen as likely to be offered a cabinet post if the Democrat had won last November. It seems clear that President Kamala Harris and VP Tim Waltz would have been invited to the funeral of Dick Cheney though bets are off if Fox would have covered it.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/cheney-funeral-fox-news-snubs-liz-chaney-eulogy-1236624870/