[zzen01]

Bush 41 POS! Fitz needs to just STFU!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Every time a Bush 41 administration official opens his yap, I'm reminded of the incompetence that allowed Hillary and her husband to capture the White House.

Maybe Brent Scowcroft will chime in soon, too.

[gondramB]

Fitz mudt have some other angle - he knows saying this odesn't help the administration.

OTOH we are polarizing too much - Strategically, Cheney's people should have handled this with the press but it's not a big deal - they are gonna lose a few new cycles that the Administration could have made better use of but if the Administration doesn't complain then nobody else really has a right to.

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

I don't understand something; there are reporting requirements to law enforcement and I would assume there's a reporting requirement to one's boss if one is the Vice President of the United States but where the @$*&?! is it written in law or code or regulation that there's a reporting requirement to the News Media?

I once heard a statement (I think it was in a movie) to the effect that there is no such thing as the Public's Right to Know...

There may be a right to say or print almost anything but where is it written that anyone has to tell them - the News Media - something that they can print?

[My2Cents]

How is it that this incident violated the "public's right to know"?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Here's a thought on this whole situation.....

The Vice President shot a private citizen. Not the other way around. Contrary to what the media might think, they have NO right to ANY information about the medical condition of the patient. Unless the patient, his family or his designated spokesperson choose to release this information, it is PRIVATE.

In my humble........

[IncPen]

Cheney pile!

[Doc Savage]

Who the hell cares. It was an ACCIDENT! Let's just get over it!

[WayneS]

Marlin Fitzwater ???!!!
He owes me MONEY !!!!

[admiralsn]

Fitzwater is a goober. I am going to call a presser to make that announcement.

[Past Your Eyes]

What a douche bag he is. I'd rather listen to Marlin Perkins talk about wrestling with El Tigre.

[Dane]

JMO, Fitzawater's way of getting DC beltway cocktail party invitations.

[Hoodat]

Marlin Fitzwater didn't handle himself too well in his Ali G interview.

Q. Was it embarrassin’ workin’ as a secretary? Did it have the same kind of … stigmata? Like bein’ a male nurse?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I'm pretty sure discussing a private citizen's health in any way, shape or form by a public official in a public setting would be a serious violation of HIPPA standards.

So, if you don't talk about it, you are withholding information. If you do talk about it, you are violating the law. Nice position to be in.

[TeddyCon]

Well Fitzy and Ari never had to deal with a press room full of MSM jackals asking q's like those that McLellan has had to deal with!