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What if Dick Cheney Hadn’t Stiffed the Press?
The American Thinker ^
| 2 20 06
| Herbert E. Meyer
Posted on 02/20/2006 5:54:19 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
Its only objective is to discredit the Bush Administration, and by doing so to increase the chances of a Democratic victory in the upcoming 2006 elections and, of course, in the 2008 Presidential election. The press will criticize everything this administration does. They might as well STOP trying to appease the press, because it can't be done. Enact your agenda, let the press howl and moan, and at the end of the day, do what Reagan did. Go straight to the American people and make your case.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:58:09 AM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
To: Kitten Festival
If DC hadn't stiffed the press NSA would still be the Current Obsession. It was a brilliant operation worthy of Mr. Rove but it may have been actually an accident.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:58:41 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Better to fight them OVER THERE than over here.)
To: Kitten Festival
Cheney ought to hold his next press conference while on the commode, allowing the Liberal Drone to really get up close and personal with him.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:59:39 AM PST
by
jla
(Urge Mike Pence to run for POTUS in '08: www.house.gov/formpence/IMA/contact.htm)
To: jla
"Cheney ought to hold his next press conference while on the commode, allowing the Liberal Drone to really get up close and personal with him."
LOL! After a big old bean burrito dinner. ;)
The press would've smeared VP Cheney either way. I think he did the right thing.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:01:54 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Kitten Festival
I agree, would make no difference, in the end it would all
have been the same results. I hope all this hatred will come back to bite the left in the _____ in the end. There are a lot of independent voters and, I pray they will see the lies on the left and the hate they spew for all Republicans and the Bush Adm.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:03:31 AM PST
by
buck61
(luv6060)
To: Kitten Festival
What if Dick Cheney Hadnt Stiffed the Press?No question: his prompt notification of the press would have been treated as a confession of guilt for something really, really bad. They'd be fuzzy on the crime itself, but they'd be very clear that it was bad, and Cheney confessed to it.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:04:09 AM PST
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: arthurus; Kitten Festival
If Cheney hadn't stiffed him, they would find something else about the case to criticize him on. They might be going more into "was cheney drunk" theories.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:05:29 AM PST
by
Barney Gumble
(A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
To: ez
This has been the M.O. of the Press and the Democrat Party since the first day Bush took office. Alan Simpson said about the press on the Chris Wallace show yesterday in the AM that it was controversy,crap and confusion and I for one think it is and the Democrats orchestrating it all with the aid of the MSM. I do not see how anyone in their right mind cannot see through the Democrats. Since Bush was elected they have been willing to sacrifice our safety,security and economy to reach their goals. The Democrat Party in America is just as dangerous in the long run as the terrorist in my opinion.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:06:10 AM PST
by
gunnedah
To: Kitten Festival
"
Lets press the rewind button and go back to the very moment of the accidental shooting
."
Oh ... by all means. Let us wail, gnash teeth, and beat ourselves with flails, lest we forget how insignificant the MSM is.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:10:00 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: Barney Gumble
Whats funny here...is before Cheney and Gore came along....no one cared about the vice-president and he barely ever got mentioned in the press. If we go back to Mondale...if he was really lucky...there might be regional press to show for a speech and if it were in New York or LA...it'd make the national press...otherwise, we never heard of the guy. If we go back to Agnew...the guy was sitting in a closet the entire time and nobody could even remember his name.
To: Barney Gumble
If Cheney hadn't stiffed him, they would find something else about the case to criticize him on. If Cheney had gone first to the D.C. Press, the drumbeat would have been, "he cares more about spinning the news than the health of his hunting buddy".
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:13:27 AM PST
by
6SJ7
To: pepsionice
My mother used to say it seemed like the function of a Vice President was to go to funerals the President chose not to attend. For years the only time they made the news was when they represented the US at a funeral.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:17:44 AM PST
by
Tammy8
(Build a Real Border Fence, and enforce Immigration Laws!!!)
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:19:22 AM PST
by
meanie monster
(http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
To: Kitten Festival
Cheney was 'gonna get screwed by the MSM anyway he handled it. He just did it on his own terms... denying the pri_ks the power they so desperately desire.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:23:09 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: gunnedah
I do not see how anyone in their right mind cannot see through the Democrats.I find two types of people who make this disinformation campaign by the MSM dangerous. Those who want to believe the worst about Republicans, and accept many of the distortions as fact. And those who pay very little attention to what goes on in the world, and get their information from the big four...abc, nbcm cbs, and cnn. The first group cannot be turned except by changing the media since they choose ignorance. The second group, hoewever, can be influenced by gently turning them toward more reliable news sources.
Regardless, it is an uphill battle. FReegards...
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:29:26 AM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
To: Kitten Festival
Cheney did not intentionally start out to allow the press to make fools of themselves, but it sure turned out that way. Not only that, but they are still doing it.
The American media : How low can they go?
To: Kitten Festival
ASAP, VP Cheney needs to find something else important to break to a small town newspaper. Just for fun.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:30:53 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
To: arthurus
It was a brilliant operation worthy of Mr. Rove but it may have been actually an accident.I reject this analysis, and claim it was not an "operation" at all. It was the logical way to handle the course of events.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:32:20 AM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Cheney ought to hold his next press conference while on the commodeThe press would've smeared VP Cheney either way.
But if Cheny were on the commode he could smear them right back.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:35:24 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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