Posted on 02/15/2006 5:37:37 AM PST by shortstop
A question for the White House press corps:
Who the hell do you think you are?
Seriously. Exactly how egomaniacal are you people?
The question is spurred by your conduct the other day over this Dick Cheney matter. The vice president was involved in a hunting accident and all of a sudden it wasn’t about him or what happened, it was how you weren’t notified.
Like the world revolves around you.
And you started acting like idiots. Juvenile, arrogant, antagonistic idiots. It was a shameful spectacle that further alienated regular Americans and showed, in the view of many, your bias and enmity toward the Bush administration and the people it represents.
Instead of demanding an explanation you should be offering an apology.
Especially this horse-face David Gregory.
After NBC blowhard David Gregory began a tirade in the White House briefing room, spokesman Scott McClellan jabbed him with a gentle, “David, hold on. The cameras aren’t on right now. You can do this later.”
Then the freak show began in earnest.
“Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,” David Gregory roared. “Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.”
“You don't have to yell,” the spokesman responded.
“I will yell,' David Gregory said, stabbing the air with his finger. “If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.”
“Calm down, Dave. Calm down,” Scott McClellan said.
“I'll calm down when I feel like calming down,” David Gregory said. “You answer the question.”
“I have answered the question,” the White House spokesman said. “I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about.”
“I am riled up – because you're not answering the question,” David Gregory said.
This was part of an exchange in which the assembled press corps turned into obnoxious rabble over the fine points of why they learned about the Cheney incident Sunday morning instead of Saturday night.
Somehow some great principle had been violated, the Republic had been imperiled and before you knew it they were comparing it to Hurricane Katrina.
The venom and rudeness of the display were palpable and nauseating. The tone was patently hateful. The media elites savaged the White House spokesman.
It was an insight into the soullessness of a group of people with the most extreme form of self-importance known to man. By watching them you’d get the impression they believe they’re reporting to idiots about idiots.
The philosophical and attitudinal distance between the reporters in that briefing room and the regular people on Main Street was about a million miles.
Not that the vice president’s hunting accident wasn’t important, not that there isn’t a natural public curiosity about it.
But there is a way ladies and gentlemen conduct themselves. There is a civil air most people can carry with them. There is a level of dignity and comity which the average person has no difficulty maintaining.
And yet, these stuffed shirts, with their huge paychecks and impressive educations, acted like savages. They were a mob.
And they were disrespecting the White House.
They were in the executive chambers of the United States government, and instead of conducting themselves in a professional and respectful manner, they acted like spoiled brats.
For all the world to see.
They think this is a controversy. They want this to be a controversy.
But it’s not.
It is a political stunt begun by the reporters and continued by the Democrats. The pretended objectivity of the White House press was disproved by the animosity and hostility of the shouted questioning. Such anger and antagonism destroy the charade of impartiality. The media showed themselves to be not reporters, but opponents.
Which is what we always thought they were.
And which they cannot now deny being.
That wasn’t journalism, that was a riot.
The hissy-fit riot of a privileged elite jumping on what it hopes is blood in the water.
It was a sickening and embarrassing display. And it was brought to you by the evening news.
An evening news that is watched by few and trusted by fewer. An evening news that has subverted a free press to a private agenda. The news hounds have become attack dogs.
And now we have seen them for what they are.
Howling savages driven by hate.
That was a song by the Beatles, George Harrison to be specific....recorded on the Let It Be Album circa 1970. Your post reminded me of the song....and both your post and the song are very fitting to Washington Press Corp...:)
MSM is all on the same page now with headlines: "Cheney shooting victim."
BBC News Cheney shooting victim has heart attack
Channel 4 News, UK - 3 hours ago
... instead. News of the shooting only came out on Sunday as neither the White House nor Mr Cheney's staff disclosed it. Despite being ...
Cheney shooting victim suffers heart attack Mail & Guardian Online
Cheney shooting victim in intensive care after heart attack New Zealand Herald
Cheney shooting victim moved to the ICU Independent Online
Malaysia Star - Sydney Morning Herald - all 4,113 related »
Newstalk ZB Cheney Shooting Victim Suffers Heart-Attack
Newstalk ZB, New Zealand - 18 hours ago
The man hospitalized after being shot by Vice President Cheney has suffered a "minor heart-attack," according to a hospital spokesman. ...
CNN International Cheney shooting victim has heart attack
WBIR-TV, TN - 19 hours ago
Doctors in Texas say some of the birdshot that Vice President Cheney accidentally fired at a fellow hunter over the weekend has lodged in the man's heart ...
White House Joked About Cheney Shooting--Before Victim's Heart ... Editor & Publisher
Cheney shooting victim has 'silent heart attack'; VP calls WLNE-TV (ABC6)
Greenfield: A political Rorschach test CNN
Toronto Star - San Francisco Chronicle - all 64 related »
Cheney shooting victim Harry Whittington could die, suffers heart ...
Sports911.com, FL - 18 hours ago
... 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a ... The victim, Harry Whittington, was immediately moved back to the intensive care unit for ...
Cheney shooting victim suffers heart attack
Reuters - 19 hours ago
HOUSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Texas lawyer accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a weekend quail hunt suffered a minor heart attack on ...
A Barrage of Editorial Cartoons Address Cheney Shooting Episode
Editor & Publisher - 19 hours ago
... Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Creators Syndicate shows the vice president with his shooting victim. An unrepentant Cheney says: "An ...
Standard-Speaker Former GOP White House Press Secretaries And PR Experts Blast ...
The Moderate Voice - 8 hours ago
... the uproar would fade if and when the victim, Texas attorney ... Most experts agreed, however, that Cheney should have announced the shooting Saturday evening ...
White House under fire in Cheney shooting accident Reuters
White House defends delayed announcement of Cheney's shooting NewKerala.com
Orange morning gives way to darker afternoon SouthCoastToday.com
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Yahoo! News - all 122 related »
SouthCoastToday.com White House jokes about Cheney shooting accident
EiTB, Spain - 17 hours ago
... decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to ... The department gave Cheney and the victim, prominent Republican ...
Controversy Swirls Around Cheney CBS 3
CHENEY SHOOTS, BUSH DUCKS. New Republic
Dick Cheney, mighty hunter Trenton Times
CBS 13 - all 197 related »
Shooting victim suffers setback
DetNews.com, MI - 4 hours ago
... in Texas said Tuesday that 78-year-old Harry Whittington had a birdshot pellet in or touching his heart after being shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a ...
OPEN SEASON ON SILENT DICK AFTER HIS VICTIM HAS HEART ATTACK
New York Post, NY - 5 hours ago
... Cheney refused to comment publicly for a third day — drawing broadsides from ... unaware that doctors were performing a heart procedure on the shooting victim...
No, they sould yank their press passes, and tell them that if they want to pretend they are really news reporters, they should actually go out and COLLECT THE NEWS themselves, instead of sitting in comfortable DC offices waiting for officials to tell them what is going on.
Scott should have looked right at Gregory, and asked him when was the last time he actually went out and FOUND a news story himself, instead of whining about Scott not giving him one. Or why David's organization didn't think to have a SINGLE beat reporter covering the Vice President.
If the news media doesn't think that what the VP does is important enough to assign a reporter, they shouldn't complain when they don't know what he's doing.
To really tweak the media, the VP's office should start issuing "urgent alert" bulletins every 5 minutes to make sure the press "knows what is happening".
"7:15am - The VP dropped his donut on the floor, but was able to recover it quickly enough to invoke the "5-second" rule, thus avoiding unncessary waste in the federal govermnent donut expenditure fund."
"7:20am - While finishing his coffee, the VP managed to spill some on the floor. This required the services of a maintenance staff worker who was supposed to be on break. His life was inconvenienced by the accident, but he will be given a substitute five-minute break later in the day."
I know this is no real laughing matter. A man is in the hospital. The press has no shame.
Bob Wright, Chairman NBC
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New York, NY 10112
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Fax: 212-489-7592
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The press thinks we're back to the days of the Circus Maximus, and they're the frenzied crowd AND the lions.
And they wonder why people have decided they're irrelevant.
Why is a "White House Press Corpse" even given special place on the grounds?
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Heard an interesting comment last night, perhaps on Brit's show -
The White House Correspondent assignment used to be a stepping stone on the path to network anchor. Now that is no longer true, and these prima donnas feel cheated.
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It just occured to me as I typed this, that Brit Hume did move to an anchor position! That must cause pain to the WHPC representatives of today.
The song I was quoting from is a recent Country & Western tune by a guy whose name escapes me at the moment..........I'm sure some FReeper can fill in the details.......
You're right.
Thank God we no longer indent the start of paragraphs.
The article and our replies would have taken up much more space.
It's all about ME!
It's all about I!
The pitiful part is that half these supposedly educated "journalists" are ignorant enough to say,"It's all about I", with a solemn face. Apparently the proper use of pronouns is no longer taught.
I Wanna Talk About Me (Toby Keith)
Uh huh, that's right
We talk about your work, how your boss is a jerk,
We talk about your church and your head when it hurts.
We talk about the troubles you've been havin' wit your brother
'bout your daddy and your mother and your crazy ex-lover.
We talk about your friends and the places that you've been,
We talk about your skin and the dimples on your chin.
The polish on your toes and the run in your hose,
and God knows we're gonna talk about your clothes.
You know talkin' about you makes me smile, but every once in a while,
I wanna talk about ME, I wanna talk about I
Wanna talk about number 1 oh my, me, my,
What I think, What I like, What I know, What I want, What I see.
I like talkin' about you, you, you, you usually, but occasionally
I wanna talk about ME! (me, me, me,) I wanna talk about ME-E-E. (me, me, me)
We talk about your dreams and we talk about your schemes,
Your high school team and your moisturizer cream.
We talk about your nana up in Muncie, Indiana,
We talk about your grandma down in Alabama.
We talk about your guys of every shape and size,
The ones that you despize and the ones you idolize.
We talk about your heart, 'bout your brains and your smarts,
And your medical charge and when you start.
You know talkin' about you makes me grin, but every now and then,
I wanna talk about me, I wanna talk about I,
Wanna talk about number 1 oh my, me, my.
What I think, What I like, What I know, What I want, What I see.
I like talkin' about you, you, you, you usually, but occasionally
I wanna talk about ME! (me, me, me,) I wanna talk about ME-E-E (me, me, me)
(I wanna talk about me) MMMM ME, ME, ME, ME, ME
(i wanna talk about me) MMMM ME, ME, ME, ME, ME
You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
I wanna talk about ME!
I wanna talk about me, I wanna talk about I,
Wanna talk about number 1 oh my, me, my.
What I think, What I like, What I know, What I want, What I see,
Oh I like talkin' about you, you, you, you usually, but occasionally,
I wanna talk about ME! (me, me, me) I wanna talk about ME-E-E
I wanna talk about ME! (me, me, me) No ME-E-E! (me, me, me)
The Cheyney accident was almost a non-story. Two friends out hunting have an accident. Vice-President tells wife of man he injured she can handle the press notification as she deems fit. There is no policy or practice that even makes this a public interest. Compare this to Algore. When was the press corps notified that he was raising money in a Buddhist Temple? When were they notified that he was paid by a Saudi group (including the family of Osama Bin Laden) four months after 9/11 a quarter million dollars to bad-mouth Bush policy?
Then the freak show began in earnest.
“Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,” David Gregory roared. “Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.”
Appears McClellan was directly above the target, and struck a nerve.
That was Connie Lawn, White House correspondent for USA Radio Network.
Talk show host in Tampa (Schnitt) found out who it was and kept slamming her for that idiotic question.
Look, the MSM is in the right here. It's very simple. They're rightly trying to get the public to understand that Cheney is a blood thirsty tyrant that tried to kill a guy.
(Twirling index finger around right ear, making that "coo-coo, coo-coo," sound)
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These "reporters" are cockroaches that sometimes rise to the status of spoiled brats. Step on them while they're still cockroaches.
Don't give McCain and Feingold any ideas!
They wouldn't know an idea if it bit them in the arse!.......
McClellan has the hardest non-policy job in Washington. Had I been in his shoes at this moment Gregory would have been lucky to avoid ejection from the briefing - preferably by someone with a badge.
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