[dirtboy]

I loved El Rushbo's comment that McCellan should have started the press conference carrying a shot gun....

That was stupid. Hunting accidents are not a joke.

And Cheney's office was stupid for sitting on this for so long. It's a very newsworthy story, and it only creates the appearance of wrongoing to take that long to report it.

[Primetimedonna]

Maybe the press would want to pursue Teddy Kennedy asking the same questions about Chappequiddick?? Leaving someone overnight to drown seems a bit more criminal than spraying a fellow hunter with BIRDSHOT.

[borkrules]

You can't be serious.

This is a nothing story in a long line of "nothing stories" that have been touted by an extremely partisan press corps in an effort to hurt this administration.

They are getting more and more desperate as time goes on. Frankly? I think Cheney's office should have waited longer if it would make these fools do more free campaign ads for the GOP. I mean, honestly.

[CFC__VRWC]

And if Cheney's office had immediately rushed to inform the media about the accident, the press would have accused them of trying to "get out front" to spin the story, and speculating about what "the rapid response from this imperial administration said about what really happened." It doesn't matter what Bush or Cheney do as far as the media is concerned, it's always wrong, always done for partisan and nefarious reasons.

If George Bush went on national TV tonight, said that he lied us into the Iraq war and then stuck a pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger, the media would whine about what took him so long to get around to it. That's the depth of their hatred for this administration.

And just where is it written in law that the media must be informed of everything above all else? Maybe the Whittington family asked the VP's office to wait a bit before releasing the information and starting the feeding frenzy, to give Mr. Whittington at least one night to rest a bit before being bombarded by the media vultures looking for anything they can use to destroy Dick Cheney. I were Cheney and had been asked that as a favor, I would have gone along in an instant, both out of a feeling that that was the least I owed the man after shooting him accidentally, and out of the knowledge that the media was going to going to rip me to shreds anyway no matter what I did.

[auto power]

You're missing the point......entirely. We're talking about the press here and how they're not going to let this story go.....no matter what.

[1L]

I agree with you that hunting accidents are no joke, but the rest of your post is BS. This isn't newsworthy in the least, and certainly the timeline involved has absolutely no relevence. The press is pissed that they couldn't find out about this early on and slander the VP and later claim that they didn't have all the info or got their info from a source.

McClellan should say, "we aren't going to answer questions about the incident; it was an accident and it has nothing to do with government."

[altura]

Maybe instead of sitting on it, they were dealing with it, and showing some consideration for the victim and how he wanted it handled.