Maybe we should bomb Tehran now...the MSM wouldn't notice...
I don't have any question...accident...end of story.
...maybe Cheney is a little trigger happy though..hehe ;)
aw feed him to the lions
"Maybe we should bomb Tehran now...the MSM wouldn't notice..."
LOL!! True!
OH, GOOD GRIEF, YOURSELF YOURSELF [Mark Steyn]
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.
Letterman's Top Ten (numbers 2 and 1 funny):
Top Ten Dick Cheney Excuses
10. "Heart palpitation caused trigger finger to spasm"
9. "Wanted to get the Iraq mess off the front page"
8. "Not enough Jim Beam"
7. "Trying to stop the spread of bird flu"
6. "I love to shoot people"
5. "Guy was making cracks about my lesbian daughter"
4. "I thought the guy was trying to go 'gay cowboy' on me"
3. "Excuse? I hit him, didn't I?"
2. "Until Democrats approve medicare reform, we have to make some tough choices for the elderly"
1. "Made a bet with Gretzky's wife"
They brought it on themselves. The press is unfriendly to begin with. When the next in line to the Presidency is involved in a shooting and they sit on it for 24 hours then you have to expect that this press corps will have a field day.
Where was the NY Times on the slow release by the White House about Vince Foster's death in Fort Marcy Park? Anyone have a LexisNexis account?
I daresay that was much more newsworthy than this tempest in a teapot.
David Gregory should have his WH press pass suspended for his rude behavior.
It seems as though the main complaint is that there is too much ink on the story. Why don't we have a moratorium on all things VP Cheney and the shooting?
/sarcasm
New York Times 02/14/2006
Letters To The Editor
I want to express my total and complete outrage at the action of the White House in this latest cover up.
The White House knew full well that Dick Cheney took a poop in the upstairs bathroom at his residence
at 9:33 a.m. on February 13, 2006 and has yet to report this horrendous event of national importance
to the White House Press Corps. There is no excuse whatsoever that this White House should continue to keep
the American public in the dark when it comes to issues such as this that effect the lives of every American, no matter
what their station in life.
This latest offense against the constitutionally guaranteed "right to know" by the MSM is surely one more log on the fire of impeachment
that will bring down this corrupt administration and their unholy alliance with the fascist right wing conservative, bible thumping
anti-American segments of the population that allowed this "unelected" gang of thugs to take over our country and destroy our hard won rights.
lol
Holding the story was probably a miscalculation but in the end, it's a big story for the press. After all what else was going on? Entwhistle's coming back from UK and Natalie Holloway hasn't washed up yet. Oh Iran did start enriching Uranium.
The real deal here is this. There was a delay in the reporting of the story. This deprived the press of a media firestorm. An entire day worth of endless speculation from an endless line of talking heads. The parade of legal "experts" to prattle on and on as to the legal ramifications, medical "experts" endlessly speculating on all the worst ways this could go. They would have found a cop or two and asked them every "gun" question under the asinine assumption that cops are firearms experts. Add in a half dozen press conferences, interviews with every democrat sober that weekend then all you would need is a death watch for the victim.
Did I cover it all?
Something tells me the "Aw, Jeez" guy is going to get a real workout before this story goes away.