[MarkL]

Heck, given the way that the press has covered the whole event, you'd have thought that VP Cheney had shot one of their own...

In response to the statement, if I was VP Cheney, I'd try to put out the fire with gasoline!

I'm so sick of the media in general. I'm almost ashamed to say it, but I have gotten to the point that when I hear of a reporter who gets injured or killed in the war, I have no real feelings about it. I'm always far more concerned and upset when one of "our boys" (including the female ones) get injured or killed.

Then it hits me... The reason for the difference is that I don't feel that the vast majority of the press happen to be "our boys." There are times where it seems that they're openly rooting for the enemy, and it's times like that when I hear of a reporter buying it, I think "good riddance," but then I feel bad about it.

Mark

[Dallas59]

This is stupid. The MSM is as bad as the Muslims rioting over a cartoon. Everyday they dig a deeper hole for themselves.

[BallyBill]

Hypocrites, I would just start snapping pictures like the media does if one of them was on fire. Can't get involved in the story, just cover the event.

[Buffettfan]

I wouldn't tell you either. In fact, I'd distract you even more until it was too late. Cheney knows how much you hate his guts. I don't blame him a bit.

[texianyankee]

"But if it were up to Dick Cheney, he wouldn't tell us if our shirts were on fire, for heaven's sake."

Why should he? You media people dont listen to Cheney when he speaks about pressing issues - instead you criticize and tear him up!

[normy]

"It's not about us, it's not about the reporters. It's about the fact that the White House is expected to disclose any information about what happens to the President and the Vice-President as soon as they can. In any other White House that I've covered, and that's several as you know, the Vice-President would never have this kind of power [to control the flow of information."

These little bitches. On Saturday the VP accidentally shoots a fellow hunter who stepped out of line without notifying the others. The hunt takes place on a remote Texas ranch, probably in the hill country. The victim is taken to the hospital and his wounds are tended too. By Sunday night the whole media knows about it.

These pusses are just mad that the President or VP doesn't call them up immediately to inform them of everything. Of course if it was Bill Clinton the media would do the cover up for him and Rush Limbaugh would be making smart ass jokes about it.

One problem is that these pansies have never hunted or been around hunting. I heard one guy say "Oh, if you want to hunt go out and take these animals on with your bare hands tough guys."

I wish someone would say, "Why don't you go kill a 2000 lb bull with your bare hands dumb ass, if you eat beef that is."

[gridlock]

The proper turn of phrase is, "If our hair was on fire, Dick Cheney wouldn't bother to pee on our legs". These reporters can't get anything right!

[KenmcG414]

Plante is Dan Rather reincarnated!!!

[syriacus]

My brother-in-law sent my husband an email with this bumper sticker

I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than
ride with Ted Kennedy

Cheney may have delayed notifying the press, but I doubt he abandoned victim while he went to speak with his lawyer.

[Boot Hill]

"It's about the fact that the White House is expected to disclose any information about what happens to the President and the Vice-President as soon as they can."

The shear arrogance of that is simply breathtaking.

[sirchtruth]

What I have total disdain for is the MSM expects that THEY should have been informed about the accident immediately by Cheney.

In the first place it's none of their business...and they're trying to turn this into a scandal.

They are such SCUM, if I was the VP I literally would have told them to KMA!!!!

[bert]

It was just on Fox and Friends, a Scottish newspaper headlines were

"Cheney bags a lawyer"

Ha Ha ha ha ha......

[verity]

Plante = vermin

[gridlock]

"It's not about us, it's not about the reporters. It's about the fact that the White House is expected to disclose any information about what happens to the President and the Vice-President as soon as they can.

The weakest argument in the World is "The Other Guy does it too...", but here goes...

How long did it take for the Clinton White House to disclose that President Clinton "fell down the stairs" and injured his knee whist cavorting drunkenly with unidentified females at Greg Norman's house in Florida?

[TexasNative2000]

No, Bill, the Vice President probably wouldn't tell you your shirt is on fire.

That's because for the last 5 years he and President Bush have been protecting you from a threat that you say doesn't exist. They've been fighting a war that you say doesn't need to be fought. They've been saving your pompous right to free speech and you don't even recognize it.

[Clemenza]

As the old saying goes, I wouldn't pee on Plante if he was on fire.

[sono]

Mark Levin for White House Press Secretary: "Put Down That Microphone, You Big Dope!"

[Rumplemeyer]

You wouldn't believe him if he did.

[beyond the sea]

CBS' Plante: "Dick Cheney Wouldn't Tell Us if Our Shirts were on Fire"

I'd light some of the old media's shirts.

****

By the way, does anyone know the name of the woman reporter at the White House who asked Scott McClellan "Would this be a bigger story if he had been killed?"

Can there ever have been a more ignorant question from a reporter?

[beyond the sea]

By the way, again, thank you for this each day. Your work and perspective is A-1.

You make FR just that much more superlative!