Posted on 02/13/2006 9:39:43 AM PST by tsmith130
What keeps McCellan from taking off his shoe and throwing it at these people?! I'd last a nanosecond in that job. They keep badgering him about the EXACT time of everything. They're pissing over a few hours!
Because it was a bird shot .. any hunter could tell the media about this
I'm sad that it didn't take longer for the press to find out. I'd love it if it was all over the web before the press found out! They are soooooo sanctimonious, thinking they DESERVE to know EVERYTHING FIRST!
They make me sick.
"Stupid; watch the "new, young" ones; they are so void of any knowledge it's quite frightening; I began to notice it during Hurricane Katrina; simply put, their educations and world experience are totally lacking and they are devoid of any sense of reference."
The MSM is in a state of decline. Who wants to go into a declining field? They aren't exactly graduating the best and brightest this country has to offer.
It was explained that "it was bird-shot and so it wasn't like being shot by a shotgun, which of course would have been much worse."
Always makes me wonder about the accuracy of reports on subjects that I know nothing about.
I'd be interested in a link to those items if you could find one. As far as I can tell, no one broke this until the local Corpus Christi paper put it on their website Sunday afternoon
As cynical as I am about politics, this looks like miscues all the way around - not a coverup. The VP saw to it that his friend was publicly transported to a public hospital. That's a coverup in your book? Where were you during the clinton years? Now there were coverups.
And btw, welcome to Free Republic.
Walter E. Williams and other have said that the schools of education are the intellectual sewers of the universities. I have to believe that the journalism "schools" are giving them some serious competition.
My bad...in a hurry
Ok, let me see if I can pull up some of the timestamps when I get home. I don't have Firefox at work, and I hit the sites from home, so I should be able to pull that up. :) Give me a few hours til then!
Hey, my cousin does snow removal and was a man short and I volunteer to help him when the forecast was 3-6 inches. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished and I spent 8 hours shovelling sidewalks with 10-15 inches of snow.
Hi dirtboy - how was this a major story in the overall scheme of things in the world right now? Titillating - yes. Agree? Major story, no. If they were "hiding something" as you suggest - why would the VP send him to a public hospital in a public ambulance? There would have been other methods.
Puh-leeze. Last I checked, the Veep was a major public figure. It's usually significant news when someone at his level accidentally shoots someone else.
If they were "hiding something" as you suggest
Please show where I suggested they were hiding something. I have said they were stupid for waiting that long to release the story, for whatever reason.
Well, you did post: "it creates the impression that there was something to hide." The rest of us simply disagree.
>>Him injuring someone in a hunting accident is a signficant story. <<
WHY? It was an ACCIDENT!!
If you really believe there is something here, it is YOU who is not being objective. I would say the same thing if some RAT who I knew had hunted a long time did the same thing.
And that is far from saying they were hiding something.
Gawd, I don't believe I'm even discussing this.
Well, I am a Texas lawyer, but am not terribly familiar with all criminal statutes. I can't find, on a basic search, the specific crime you mentioned. I do know that anything "negligence" related in the criminal law has a very high standard which isn't even close to what happened here. Because the criminal law is based primarily on intent, you can't just be negligent, unless its clear that you are going about things very recklessly and even an idiot knows better.
Strict liability only applies in vary narrow circumstances, and we aren't even close here. Basically, you have to be mishandling dynamite or something like that (non-state specific; just something I remember from law school!). SL can also apply in things like statutory rape, but again, it has to be something where no reasonable person would have a defense.
Don't confuse civil negligence with criminal negligence. Two very different concepts.
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