I meant for this to go into General/Chat. Please move if inappropriate.
I loved El Rushbo's comment that McCellan should have started the press conference carrying a shot gun....lol....
They keep harping on why it took 22 hours to let the press in on it.
The reporters are histrionic about the incident. Excited screeching, waving hands. The only quiet one in the group so far is Helen Thomas.
He should respond by saying, "Even though it took a while to
get all the facts, at least the Vice President did not leave the injured person there to die overnight, like Ted Kennedy did!"
I hate the wh press. And I think McClelland is looking weak.
Someone on another thread suggested if McClellan was questioned about the delay in reporting, he should answer with one word: Chapequiddick!
The WH press are outraged that they were not notified first. McClelland should say that any talking head is as good as another and that the fact the WH press was not first is immaterial and that they should get off their high horse.
Yes, the press sounds like the judge, jury and executioner.
The press is treating this like it is Watergate.
One insinuated (that guy with the gray hair) that checking the lawyer's medical condition shouldn't take that long and SOMEONE should have been calling AP post haste even before the injured got to the emergency room.
Just another excuse to bash the Bush Administration.
Good Lord, now they are comparing this to Hurricane Katrina!
And they wonder why the HELL the American public hates the news media?
I had Fox News on for awhile yesterday. One of their infochicks was interviewing some "expert" about the Cheney accidental shooting and -- I kid you not -- the Fox infochick asked the "expert" to explain what it meant when the quail flushed because she didn't know.
"Under Texas Law, would this be considered a Criminal Offense". What blowhards!!
McCellan should just fess up and admit that Cheney is a member of the Crips; he felt dissed by a blood and since he didn't have his glock, he popped some buck in his face, old school style, BOOOOOOOOY!
The WH should just admit the truth: VP's hunting buddy was wearing a Hillary Clinton mask.
A female reporter just asked if the accident would have been more serious if the victim had died!!!!????
ABC Uses Shooting Accident to Take Gratuitous Shot at Cheney Over Scalia
Posted by Brent Baker on February 13, 2006 - 00:04.
In the midst of ABC's lead story Sunday night about how Vice President Dick Cheney had, on Saturday afternoon, accidentally hit hunting companion Harry Whittington with shotgun pellets while he was aiming at some quail, reporter John Yang resurrected a two-year-old media-created scandal which amounted to little at the time: How Cheney invited Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia along on a hunting trip while the court was facing a decision on a lawsuit involving the Vice President's official duties. Yang brought up Cheney's affiliation with the NRA and then asserted: “His hunting made headlines in 2004. He took Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on a duck hunting trip to Louisiana on board Air Force Two, at a time when the court was considering a case filed against Mr. Cheney by environmental groups." The Supreme Court sided with the VP's office, which sent the case back to a federal appeals court which rejected, 8-0 in 2005, the Sierra Club's request to learn what advice industry experts gave Cheney's energy task force. (2005 AP story.) (Brief transcript follows.)
On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell managed to deliver a longer story on the shooting, at a ranch in southeastern Texas, without making any mention of the discredited lawsuit. (Golf bumped the CBS Evening News in the Eastern and Central time zones.)
On the February 12 World News Tonight, over a picture of Cheney holding a rifle on stage at an NRA convention, followed by still pictures of Cheney hunting, of Antonin Scalia and of people standing next to Air Force Two, Yang asserted from the White House:
"Vice President Cheney is an avid hunter and strong supporter of gun owners' rights and the National Rifle Association. His hunting made headlines in 2004. He took Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on a duck hunting trip to Louisiana on board Air Force Two, at a time when the court was considering a case filed against Mr. Cheney by environmental groups."
http://newsbusters.org/node/4005
It seems only the media care whether they were informed in a timely manner. Personally, I could care less if they waited a day. This isn't national security issues here, lol - David Gregory has to be the most irritating, whiny, smarmy reporter on earth.