The media's Cheney hunt

Town Hall | Feb 15, 2006 | Brent Bozell

[1Old Pro]

These reporters looked like a "Saturday Night Live" skit with the goofy questions they asked.

No kidding. There was only ONE THING MISSING from the skit.

Where was Ted Kennedy making a fuss about waiting 24 hours before reporting a crime???

[Willie Green]

With apologies to the Cheney friend who received the pellet facial, the incident was funny.

Yes, it was funny when we were led to believe that it wasn't any more serious than a "facial".
Now it becomes legitimate to ask why the gravity of the situation was initially downplayed.

[Colonel_Flagg]

As usual, Mark Steyn said it best:

"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."

[small voice in the wilderness]

lol! And if Cheney wanted to make some MSM punks p*ss their pants, he would call a press conference. And when they're all smugly assembled with their lists of grievances held in their sweaty little palms, he would yell "PULL!!!. Then smile that great smile of his. Watch them scatter like, well, like quail flushing from the brush.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Of course, if David Gregory were any sort of a real reporter, he would have worked his beat sources to learn of the story himself.

[G.Mason]

Re:"The whole network has flipped out".

I guess they are just emulating the rest of the world.

Sad. I used to enjoy a few before dinner cocktails and listen / watch Fox.

Now I'm relegated to the "Golden Girl" re-runs, which I never even would watch twenty years ago when they were new.

I would say that Fox is just above that old decrepit hag that talks about penis rings and dildoes, though.

I stumbled across her one day while channel surfing and haven't had the yearning for sexual relations since.

That was two weeks ago, and I am beginning to worry. ;)

[G.Mason]

" ... Of course, if David Gregory were any sort of a real reporter, he would have worked his beat sources to learn of the story himself."

The only "beat sources" David Gregory has are sent to him by his buddy Larry Flynt.

[ohioWfan]

ROFLOL! That show was SOOOO disgusting!

Maybe you should look for reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond or Cosby........might keep your sex drive alive........the Huxtables were pretty hot. :)

[Sender]

The ever-dependable Mike Luckovich, bastard child of the Atlanta left, delivers this:

[ohioWfan]

Now it becomes legitimate to ask why the gravity of the situation was initially downplayed.

It wasn't. The situation was dealt with medically from the get go. The first Doc thought he should be treated and released. It was only later that the bird shot moved and caused a more serious medical problem.

I see conspiracy paranoia does not exist only on the left.....

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>that Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up"


No AL, that was a Democratic President rounding people up. Those people being rounded up weren't Arab either; they were Japanese.

[G.Mason]

Thanks for the steer. I'll try them.

I'ts for sure "Maud" ain't cutting it, though Blanche is looking better! ;)

[johnny7]

Thank God we weren't hit by al Qaeda... I doubt if they would've broken away.

[Texas Jack]

The MSM continue to marginalize themselves.

How can anyone take them seriously after seeing the level of gross ignorance on display with each reporting of this incidence?

I thought hurricane Katrina was their low-water mark, but this has to take the prize for the most drummed-up ballyhoo about nothing.

In the future, just remember, the same level of incompetence is on display with every story they air.

[ER Doc]

But the first doc who made a statement was obviously as wrong as possible. Actually, the first doc, presumably one of my colleagues in emergency medicine, had him flown by helicopter from the small local hospital to the regional trauma center in Corpus Christi. He was in the trauma intensive care unit for three days, then moved back to the ICU almost immediately after he was moved out, when they realized he had a heart arrhythmia and found the heart attack. Obviously, it was a lot more serious from the start than the public statements were admitting.

[ER Doc]

Fine; so wait for a full evaluation, after he was flown to the trauma center and admitted to the ICU. That was around 9pm central time. Any complaints about privacy would have come and gone, but the conspiracy theorists wouldn't have nearly as much to work with. The way Mr. Cheney has handled this has been a disaster for us.

[arthurus]

Press briefings to that crew should be conducted by a janitor's assistant entering the room and looking around as if counting the house. Then he should leave followed by a 15 year old entering and passing around handouts and saying, "thanks for coming, the conference is over and we need to set up the room for ping-pong in 5 minutes.

[ohioWfan]

He was clearly wrong, but it was still the first medical impression given.

The facts as presented by the medical staff yesterday were that the bird shot had MOVED. That doesn't back up your conspiracy theory.

They also said that the patient was expected to fully recover.

There is no there there.

[arthurus]

Fox News was, for a while, the only TV I looked at because it was on at my workplace. Now that TV has been removed and I am back to my total TV abstinence. I don't miss it. Over several months it seemed Fox edged closer and closer to MSM and tabloid style.

[ohioWfan]

btw, welcome to Free Republic. Long time conservative are you?