Today Show Implies FNC Hid News of Cheney Beer: Transcript Proves Otherwise

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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I doubt Cheney was inebriated from one beer he drank two hours earlier. That being said no one should hunt drunk. I will not hunt with a drunk. It gives us all a bad name and is a very stupid thing to do.

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2) If he had been in Washington doing his job,

Cheney has two constitutional jobs: preside over the Senate (and cast tie-breaking votes if needed), and be ready to become president. His "job" does not include any other real activities, other than what the president may decided to ask him to do.

I've been critical of the delay in notifying the press. But it's absurd to think that, because Cheney was quail hunting on a Saturday, that the nation's business and security was somehow affected.

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"The official White House transcript of the interview shows Cheney said 'I had a beer at lunch.' Fox News did not show that particular clip during Brit Hume's program."

I wasn't sure who reported it this morning but it certainly stopped me in my tracks when I heard it. They will clutch at any straw to make this bigger than it is even with the public ho humming it. For Joe Klein to tell Scarborough that the press is over reaching and should stop, speaks volumes.