Oh, and I would like one of these bumper stickers!
Posted on 02/14/2006 5:53:37 AM PST by frankjr
I'm reluctant to disparage John Podhoretz as some effete metrosexual Ethel Merman impersonator, being one myself. But I can't see how the hunting thing is going to hurt Cheney or the GOP. For one thing, even when they've got the bones of a case, you can always rely on the Democrats and the media to over-react and, in so doing, come across as a lot of prigs. Already, NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, has been huffin' an' a-puffin' all over the TV demanding answers - multiple answers - about why he had to wait 18 hours to hear about the accident. Who cares? A "sinister cover-up" has to boil down to more than not giving David Gregory a press release. And, given that the media's spent the last two weeks telling the public why they don't need to see these Danish cartoons, it's hard to take them seriously as sudden converts to the public's right to know every detail, if only when it comes to minor hunting accidents.
From an anecdotal survey of my part of the North Country, most guys see the Cheney business as an excuse to tell their own hunting stories, mostly of the been-there-done-(or-nearly-done)-that variety. I'm not saying I'm entirely on board with the line that real men shoot each other all the time without whining like a bunch of ninnies about what's no more than a healthy American male bonding experience. But on balance this is one of those no-scandal scandals where Democrat/media hysteria only underlines their estrangement from the average red-state male. If John disagrees, I'd be happy to argue it out with him on a hunting trip deep in the woods - or, if he doesn't trust me that far off the grid, we can shoot each other's Broadway cast albums off the back of the pick-up one weekend.
Steyn ping
Snicker. Perfect. :o)
Leno said that Cheney's approval ratings went way up because he shot a lawyer.
lol!
One other thing David. If you want the latest about the VP get off your dead a$$ in DC and follow him around. What are you going to do the rest of your life, hang around the press room and wait for someone to bring you a story on a silver platter? Nevermind, I already know the answer.
Talk about out of touch.I was floored when a journalist asked about impeachment during a WH press conference.I couldn't determine if she were serious or facetious.
Mark Steyn is just brilliant!
It seems like playing a weak hand, to me, the MSM going wall-to-wall with stories about how the they are no longer in the loop. But I guess that's why I'm not a highly paid editor or producer.
Oh they are in the loop alright, but it's more of a noose
LOL....just now hearing decades old stories of hunting 'accidents'........LOL...oh boy! Guess it was much better not to be telling the family about some of those escapades.
Can there ever have been a more ignorant question from a reporter?
You just know that Steyn rattled this off in about 45 seconds. Well done, as always.
Abandon exasperation here. Justice is indeed being served.
Without our help, the MSM is destroying their credibility right in front of our eyes...acting out in ways we might have only prayed they would. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?)
MMMMM!
Oh wow! Double duty! Thank you, Pokey78!
What's really sad is that Cheney indulges in "canned hunting" (i.e. the girly-man pretend version).
Thanks Pokey.
I'm sure the press can come up with dumber questions.
After all, it's what they do!
It's a non-story. A silly piffle the MSN is making into a big deal. Beyond a week or two of jokes for Jay Leno, it's meaningless.
You all know, if it had been Kerry last year who had done this, there would have been a fall guy (and not the one who got shot).
Hitting a moving quail isn't the easiest thing to do.
Oh, and I would like one of these bumper stickers!
When I look at all the overblown hoopla about this incident, I realize were are doomed.
David Gregory is an A*&. I have emailed him so many times with anger over his comments over the past 4 years. He really needs to be FIRED. NBC is the pits!
That's what I've been asking. Did he bag the quail?
They as the Democrat Party are becoming such a joke. Former Vice President Gore goes to Saudia Arabia and due to his comments will probably cost some innocent lives and yet we hear not a peep from the irrelevant media......Meanwhile, the media does more in moving people to the right then we ever ask for....
If 18 hours drives Gregory nuts, Ted Kennedy's delay in telling the facts of how he drowned Mary Jo, must be really driving him off the wall. NOT!
Well, I suppose one answer about why folks had to wait to hear about the hunting episode, is that Ted 'the swimmer' Kennedy set the bar on that one - pretty low, if I remember correctly.
WAITING to report a crime (until the victim is certain to be deceased) is primarily a Dem response, so what are the lib reporters complaining about when a Republican does the same?
At least this accident was reported to the authorities in good time, just not to the lib press (who think they ARE the authorities, I guess). If Kennedy had reported his crime immediately, he wouldn't be a murderer today.
Nah, only if you are a democrat.......
I agree. Just thought I'd let you know. : )
He looks like Bob McKenzie.
"Cheney is a hoser!"
What John Podhoretz said that prompted the great repsonse:
WHAT CHENEY MUST DO [John Podhoretz]
This story is a very big deal, despite all the mitigating factors -- the accident involved a friend, his medical team was right there to help, and all that. Something like this has never happened before, and it is a genuinely disturbing thing to think that the vice president of the United States actually shot somebody last weekend, even for fans of his. It's disturbing as well that there was a news blackout that lasted nearly a day about this serious incident. It seems beyond question that the vice president is going to have to go before the cameras, explain what happened, and show genuine remorse for his actions, however inadvertent. It's a difficult challenge for someone as reticent as Dick Cheney. But unless he does so, and makes a good showing of it, he will be damaged goods for the remainder of the Bush presidency.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Steyn...just gotta love that biting British humor. The man nails it again.
David Gregory is a nasty, pompous, smug, partison, creep.
Thanks for the ping!
Brutal.
The demoshill immediately reared up in anger, "OH NO! We won't bring that up! That's way out of line!
HEE HEE HEE They really do have a double/cross standard don't they. And how many millions of independant voters were watching? (Fox takes the majority of them)
Podhoretz does come across as a girly-man with these comments. You would almost think that Cheney shot the guy on purpose, or as part of an argument over a woman, or in a drunken rage. It was a minor hunting accident of the type that happens all too often. It is of no more importance than a minor traffic accident, UNLESS one lives in a world where guns loom as ominous talismans of a strange primitivism.
Yes, I agree that Cheney should come before the press. With a neckbrace, a cane, and a lawyer.
I'm hearing some of those old stories, too, and some of them, I really wish I hadn't. Yikes!
Steyn knocks it out of the park again! Just the first line alone had me spitting out my morning tea! (And the point he makes about Old Media's sham outrage over a minor delay in releasing information compared to the virtual blackout of the NEWS stories that an entire region is in violent chaos because of some old cartoons is just brilliant. What a brilliant man!)
Cut him some slack. He's a big TV guy. You can't expect him to be too far away from his hair dresser and make-up person. Besides. There probably isn't a Starbucks within 100 miles of that ranch in Texas.
David Gregory is an example of "Rip 'N Write" journalism. (Remember when FAX machines had that continuous feed thermal paper). The WH Press Corps is so used to reporting cocktail circuit rumor, innuendo & pre-digested news releases that they've lost the ability distinguish between real News & what they'd like the News to be.
The press is just using this to cover up for Gore. If they were putting his insane speech to muslims in our face every five minutes people would leave the shot guns at home and go looking for Gore.
I hear they use the same defoliator.
He's also a blow-dried, preening prick and a hack who couldn't report his way out of a paper bag.
One must remember that the press fully supports as well as agrees with whatever the "TREE" says.
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