No End to Questions in Cheney Hunting Accident

New York Times ^ | 2/14/06 | Anne Kornblut and Ralph Blumenthal

[HiTech RedNeck]

complimentary coffee and danish? i hope it's from denmark

[DaGman]

This never had to be the furor it has become. Hunting accidents happen. If Joe SixPack shoots Joe Blow while hunting, it gets a mention that evening on the local news. I think as much as he would like to be, Cheney is not Joe SixPack. Had the Vice President of the United States of America come forward right away, maybe a new conference at the hospital that night with the obligatory "I feel so bad right now" people would have felt sympathy immediately for Cheney for having hurt his friend as well as Whittington, the victim.

[kevkrom]

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

I didn't realize that the White House was required to do the media's job for them.

[G.Mason]

;)

[DustyMoment]

Their egos are the real story in this non-story, story.

Good point!! Most of us hadn't considered that aspect of this nonsense.

[gridlock]

complimentary coffee and danish? i hope it's from denmark

The White House Press Corp would probably insist that they be called "Mohammadan Pastries" for fear of offending the Muzzies.

[King of Florida]

On Monday, a news release from the sheriff's office said that "Mr. Whittington's interview collaborated Vice President Cheney's statement" and that the department was "fully satisfied that this was no more than a hunting accident."

"Collaborated"? Are they selectively quoting from the sheriff's news release to imply this is a Freudian slip or something?

[NonValueAdded]

From another story, the local sheriff was notified about an hour after the incident occurred. Where was the stringer for the local media? The press must have known the Veep's schedule ... do they know so little about hunting that they assumed it was safe not to have a member of the press covering the party? Where was the photographer waiting to snap the pic of the Veep carrying out his bag of birds? (or, his manservent carrying the bird ... oh, wait that was the great white belly hunter). No, the MSM is in a tizzy because their vaunted news gathering machine was exposed as weak by this one, so expect much strum und drang so that no one notices.

Oh, and why didn't FR break this one? Jim Rob, please investigate :)

[gridlock]

I didn't realize that the White House was required to do the media's job for them.

There was a time when any reporter passing along press accounts from the White House would be derided as a "Rip and Read" mindless tool of the Powers That Be. Today's blow-dried pretty boys insist on the privledge.

[leadpenny]

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.

Then you would be part of a very small minority. Had there been a Breaking News thread from the get-go, this place would have been on fire.

[roses of sharon]

Some media sycophants don't remember a day when men were not expected to have an Oprah moment, tell all, cry, apologize, ect, and create policy and behave according to the NYT editorial page.

This President is serving during a time when some are being weened from the DNC/MSM, and those media/political organizations are furious that they are not the gatekeepers anymore.

The paper in Texas reported this on their web site Sunday morning, per the reporter.

Complainers always find something to complain about. Always.

[dmw]

"This never had to be the furor it has become."

Unfortunately it did have to become the furor it did. Why? The answer is simple. This is the administration the MSM loves to hate. They will do and say anything to put this administration in a bad light.

Here is a question that I think most of us know the answer to. Suppose we change the names of the people involved here to Al Gore, Joe Lockhart and this event happened during the Clinton era. Do you think this story would have been the big deal it is now? Do I need to answer that? Didn't think so!

[alnick]

And continuous speculation by friends of Cheney on exactly why the news didn't get out

The news did get out.

I promise you, if the media had been alerted immediately rather than the following day, they'd have come up with another angle to express outrage against the Vice President.

[Fenris6]

"the public's right to know"....

[Ax]

David Gregory is a leprous, toilet-dwelling toad. He absolutely snarls when he has to mention the president's name.

[roses of sharon]

Hatred is unbecoming. And David proves that everyday.

[fedupjohn]

Their egos are the real story in this non-story, story.

DING, DING, DING, DING. WE HAVE A WINNER!!
Again, it's all about them. What a pile of losers.

[RetSignman]

It would only make him MORE of a liberal icon. The jerk is the Helen Thomas of his generation and deserves the same amount of serious consideration.

[TalBlack]

"I'm reluctant to disparage John Podhoretz as some effete metrosexual Ethel Merman impersonator..."

He didn't do such a bad job fiting that description in his 2/10/06 op ed 'The Cartoon Wars R-E-S-P-E-C-T' in the NYPost.

"Prudent" John is why I haven't bought that paper since then.

Though for the record he may be a jot cuter than "The Merm".

[bronxboy]

For goodness sake, it was birdshot- big deal.