Posted on 02/14/2006 3:25:39 AM PST by advance_copy
The White House sought with little success on Monday to quell an uproar over why it took the better part of a day to disclose that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally wounded a fellow hunter in Texas on Saturday and why even President Bush initially got an incomplete report on the shooting. BLAH BLAH BLAH
The victim, Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer, was transferred from the intensive care unit to a private room in a Corpus Christi hospital on Monday. He was listed as stable, with wounds to his face, neck, chest and rib cage from the pellets sprayed at him from 30 yards away by Mr. Cheney's shotgun.
Calls to Mr. Whittington's room were routed to the hospital's marketing department, which said it was taking messages for him, but he did not return a call.
Texas officials said on Monday night that Mr. Cheney would be issued a warning citation for hunting without a proper game stamp on his license. The local sheriff said an investigation had concluded that the episode was "no more than an accident."
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I don't know about the last sentence but you tell the truth.
Something tells me the "Aw, Jeez" guy is going to get a real workout before this story goes away.
Ted Kennedy's probably chomping at the bit that he can't weigh in on the so called "scandal" that it over 20 hours to report the incident.
That was terry moran.
LLS
Shoot, shovel, and shutup!
They also have an editorial today which throws every insinuation imaginable without ever hitting anything. I love the complaint that the VP allowed a mere "private citizen" to break the news. And the NYT actually complains because she works for (egads!) "an engineering company". Doesn't she also own the property, and was an eyewitness to everything?
I believe the word is not 'inept' but 'mindlessly hated'.
And I also think the family really did ask for the press not to be notified. Which IMHO is getting to be a good thing. After all, the antique press is simply going berserk and they do so without exception on a partisan basis. That's basically unhinged. Do you make sure to tell your most unhinged acquaintances all your most sensitive and most easily mis-represented facts so they can broadcast it to, literally, the whole world?
I didn't think so.
lol!
That about says it all. lol!
blah, blah, blah
On that I would concur. Certainly nothing like the enemy Democrat Party and their cheerleaders, the Fourth Estate, could muster.
Oh ... sure, Libertarians, Democrats and others will cheer, as they did with Dan Quayle ("potatoe") and Gerald Ford (falling down Air Force 1 stairs) but it is a non-issue.
The commie media making fools of themselves, as usual.
Exactly my thoughts. You would think that the Vice President was at a drinking party with a young female and ran off a bridge with her in the car and left her for dead or something!!! Further more,according to reports, you might think the Vice President had an affair with an intern and lied about it or something!!
Exactly my thoughts. You would think that the Vice President was at a drinking party with a young female and ran off a bridge with her in the car and left her for dead or something!!! Further more,according to reports, you might think the Vice President had an affair with an intern and lied about it or something!!
No, inept is the appropriate word. Bush Senior and Reagan were both faced with hostile press and they still managed to use them to the point where if the press wasn't exactly an ally then it wasn't an out and out enemy either. This administration came in with the view that the press was the evil incarnate and have done everything in their power to fuel media animosity in return.
Do you make sure to tell your most unhinged acquaintances all your most sensitive and most easily mis-represented facts so they can broadcast it to, literally, the whole world?
I'm not the Vice President of the United States.
I don't remember the outrage by the press when Clinton failed to report that he had shot Monica.
You, though only here for a short time, are wasting your time posting on this forum.
You have an obvious talent for writing Democrat Party talking points and may well be a very wealthy person in doing so. ;)
That was a great "letter to the editor". Again, welcome aboard!
Why?
Why is this not a private matter?
I'm not being obtuse. I really want to know. Why is a hunting accident involving the VEEP news, if it was not the VEEP who was shot?
Is Cheney under investigation? Is there any wrongdoing or question of negligence that has a bearing on public policy? This was a couple of friends out hunting and there was an accident. It is nobody's business but their own.
That said, I much prefer to have a story 24 hours after the fact about how the blow-dried Press Corp didn't get this story served up with their complementary coffee and danish in the White House Press Room than having to endure a death vigil at the hospital and hours of shaky video of Prima Donna Pretty Boys out tramping through the fields looking for bloody grass.
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