Posted on 02/14/2006 5:31:24 PM PST by jmc1969
Fleischer, who was Bush's first press secretary - from 2001 to 2003 - told E&P that Cheney's accidental shooting of Texas attorney Harry Whittington on Saturday during a hunting trip should not have taken nearly a day to be reported.
"It would have been better if the vice president and/or his staff had come out last Saturday night or first thing Sunday morning and announced it," he said during a phone interview Tuesday. "It could have and should have been handled differently."
But Fleischer also took a jab at the reporting frenzy surrounding the story, saying most Americans are not as focused on it as the White House press corps. "The press is largely right on the issue--but it can be right and go too far," he added.
He also said that if he were still in the White House, he would urge the vice president's office to take some of the heat off Bush's staff: "I think you go to the vice president and say, 'you need to be handling this.'"
Fleischer's comments came just hours after Marlin Fitzwater, who served as press secretary to Bush's father and Ronald Reagan, also criticized Cheney, telling E&P he was "appalled" at the response to the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
When the going get's tough.....RUN!
Not one word.
The link goes to .pdfs of official investigations.
Why don't you try clicking on the link before attacking?
On second thought, you seem to like to attack without the facts worked out. Good night.
Then that is rather disappointing, to say the least.
Try going to the link.
They have .pdfs of offical reports.
Charles Krauthammer said tonight that Cheney had to know the firestorm that was/would come because of this and wanted to give the Armstrongs and Whittingtons a chance to get straight before the press beseiges them.
He said Cheney probably weighed his options and said "Hell, I'll take the heat."
And let's face it: everything they have said they would have said even if they knew on Saturday one minute after it happened.
Sharing freepmails without permission of the sender? That's not very good FRettiquitte to do such, especially when the freepmail in question does not violate forum guidelines.
The only difference is that they would have had BLOODY GOREY pictures to go with their hyped stories.
What link?
www.caller.com. - the Corpus paper's website.
Dumbo I read it on this thread. I didn't read any freep mail.
Actually, I do not think it stupid. If he were a normal private citizen it would not be widely reported except to generate anti-hunting legislation. In other words, it would be newsworthy only because of an agenda.
Then, if we were to think about the ACLUs "right to privacy" campaign for queers and everything else, it must surely apply here.
So, please rethink your "stupid" comment. While I was half jesting, I was certainly more than half right!
I didn't share it with anybody except the entire thread: I posted you exact statement on this very thread.
The link does not have a PDF on it.
So if I jump off a bridge, land on the street and get run over will it be the driver's carelessness that causes my injury? Or might it be that I was in the wrong place, without advanced noticed and beyond the reasonable expectation of the driver?
Remind me to never send you a freepmail again, Howlin.
Uh, Cheney pulled the trigger, dude.
It was one line; it wasn't your home address.
And I didn't ask you to send it to me in the first place.
There is no link to a PDF at that web site.
Uh, yes, it does:
Texas Parks and Wildlife report (PDF 593K)
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