Anyone watching the press conference about the accidental shooting in Texas?

[tsmith130]

What keeps McCellan from taking off his shoe and throwing it at these people?! I'd last a nanosecond in that job. They keep badgering him about the EXACT time of everything. They're pissing over a few hours!

[Howlin]

How about when Clinton "fell" down at Greg Norman's? Did they break into the shows that Saturday night to tell us all about it? I think not.

[kcvl]

No, since most of them were probably drunk with him!

The MSM knows what happened and it wasn't just a simple 'fall'.

They make me sick! It wouldn't be so bad if any of them knew a damn thing about HUNTING! Chris Matthews even had on the ballerina, Ron Reagan to discuss this!!! lol!

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SHEEHY (1999): While the affair continued, the third marker event occurred. Clinton stumbled down a flight of stairs at golf pro Greg Norman's house, and, overnight, he was hobbled like an old man...Bill's final liaison with Monica was on March 29, a little over two weeks after his fall. Monica had to service her crippled lover while he was still using crutches.

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At the home of golfer Greg Norman in March 1997, Clinton caught his heel on a step and tore 50% of his right quadriceps tendon. (The tendon connects the kneecap to the quadriceps muscle of the thigh.) Clinton heard the tear as a "very loud pop." He underwent a two-hour operation under regional anesthesia to repair the tendon, followed by weeks with a knee brace and crutches [4].

Had the operation required general anesthesia, Clinton had planned to transfer Presidential authority to Vice President Gore under terms of the 25th Amendment [5]. Clinton was awake during the entire operation and "was alert most of the time" [4].

[Howlin]

But do you remember the press being all over the story like this one? I sure don't. I know we were skeptical at the time, but it seems to me that we didn't know anything about it until he showed up to get on Air Force One.

[Howlin]

Here is a timeline I have put together from people on the news, especially the Garcia girl at the Corpus Christy paper, who would know since she broke the story:

Here is the timeline:

5:50 p.m. CST - shooting

6:30 p.m. CST - Cheney's ambulance removes Whittington from the field.

***Note it is at least a 20 minute ride back to the main ranch -- only then do they get on the way to the local hospital.

Whittington taken to local hospital, examined, treated.

Whittington helicoptered to Corpus Christi Hospital.

***Secret Service had notified the local police within an hour of the accident.

7:30 p.m. CST -- White House notified and Andy Card calls Bush.

8:00 p.m. CST or there about -- Rove calls Bush to tell him Cheney is involved.

***Cheney goes to the hospital with Whittington.

Sunday morning, 8:00 a.m. CST -- Cheney meets with sheriff.

8:00 a.m. -- Armstrong begins trying to contact Reporter Powell, finally gives up and gives the story to reporter at 11:00 a.m. CST

Paper immediately puts the story up because Garcia (reporter) says that they called the White House to confirm before they put the story up.

She was patched through to Cheney's spokesperson McBride.

She said that as soon as they put the story on their web site they began receiving calls from all over the country -- so why did it take the MSM until 3 EST to get the story?

[Howlin]

BTW, I saw some reporter on either ABC or CBS who had gone to some gun range to get a shooter to explain to him what happened.

The shooter said, "When the quails flushes, you hold your gun like this" (and he put the gun in front of himself in a shooting stance.

The reporter, in all seriousness, then asked "And do you follow the quail with your gun?"

The shooter just sort of looked at him and said, "Yeah." Like HUH?

[Dont Mention the War]

That's funny. Did you create it? LOL.

I wish! But no, I just found it floating around the Net somewhere a few months ago and saved a copy.

[M Kehoe]

Howard Dean is the best thing to ever happen to the Republican party!

And what's funny is that they [the dummies in the democRAT party] won't figure this out even after their defeat this November.

The Pubbies have been blessed.

5.56mm

[Dont Mention the War]

Always makes me wonder about the accuracy of reports on subjects that I know nothing about.

And you should wonder, and always question. With few exceptions, there's no such thing as a "beat reporter" any more, who spends all his/her time on one topic and knows it inside and out. These days they're just sent from one story to the next. Today it's quail hunting in Texas, tomorrow it'll be a tornado in Oklahoma, Thursday it'll be a story about breast cancer research in Atlanta. And chances are the given journalist knows less about all of those topics than the average viewer, much less an expert in one of those fields.

[kcvl]

"And do you follow the quail with your gun?"

No, you shoot the guy hunting with you, idiot. lol!

How about the old hag who asked if anything would be different if the man had died?!

[Nova]

I'm disappointed that Cindy Sheehan won't be running. I kinda figured that with Sheehan and Dean opposing us we couldn't loose.

[Jhohanna]

That's awesome of you! THank you for helping out... that's really cool. You see my point. :)

[kcvl]

Bunch of loonies.

No kidding! Since when is it VP Cheney's responsibility to 'inform' the MSM of anything?! Shouldn't they get off their butts and look for information? Or do they think they should just sit in their ivory tower perches waiting for someone to give them 'news'?!

I can't stand them!!!

[pollyannaish]

In that case, I'm stealing it without the creator's permission!

[dirtboy]

Actually, I feel a lot better today than I thought I would at 9 pm last night. Guess the 45-year-old bones can still carry a load when the occasion merits such. :^)

[joanie-f]

Mr Cheney needs to take the white house press corps hunting ....:o)

I second your motion! :)

When I sat down to take a breather today, the television was on NBC, probably because I had been listening to the Olympics coverage earlier in the day as I was preparing lunch. I wasn’t fast enough (must be losing my quick reflexes in my 'old age' :) to hit the off button before Brian Williams squeezed in his obligatory two cents worth of leftist propaganda news intro. It seems that the top story today on NBC (and no doubt ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN) was Cheney's hunting accident and the President's cover-up.

Williams began his harangue with the arrogant and incensed question, 'What did the President know, and when did he know it? Why was the shooting hushed up until the day after it happened?' (I'm not quoting him verbatim, but pretty darn close.)

Even though I am excruciatingly aware of the major networks' long-time leftist agenda, I still stood there in disbelief. It would appear that they are intent on sinking to new lows daily.

A countless number of other genuinely newsworthy events could have been the headline story today, were it not for the fact that leftist politicians, and all of their cohorts in the media, are incessantly searching for 'evidence' that the Bush administration is corrupt. And on days when no such evidence is forthcoming, they seek to magnify offenses as minor as jaywalking, in the hope that, if they pile up a sufficient number of jaywalking offenses, the American electorate will decide that this administration, and republicans in general, are corrupt. It’s like the American democrat party's version of Chinese water torture, if not history's most blatant example of the pot calling the kettle black.

Apparently, an unfortunate hunting accident, and the fact that the administration chose not to inform the self-righteous press immediately, represents just one more 'offense' that they feel obliged to add to the corruption list.

It’s interesting that the fact that a former American Vice President stood on Saudi Arabian soil today and accused the American government of committing 'terrible abuses' against Arabs, by indiscriminately rounding them up and holding them in deplorable conditions.

Over the past few years … for the first time in American history … two former Presidents and a former Vice President have found it necessary to brutally criticize America's current government. And not only do they do so on our own soil, but they choose to travel to enemy soil and and hurl vicious accusations at America's leadership.

All such accusers are democrats. And all such accusers are criticizing policies and behaviors that they would be applauding, if those policies and behaviors had been authored and enacted by leaders of their own party.

The democrats' thirst for elitist power now clearly far exceeds their sense of political decency and their commitment to preserving America's sovereignty and security (part of the Constitutional definition of treason includes adhering to our enemies, giving them aid or comfort).

The madmen of our era who cloak themselves in the mantle of a violent 'religion,' combined with the insatiable lust for power on the part of much of the past and present leftist ruling elite of America, may well make the elections of 2006 and 2008 watershed events that will lay the groundwork for either the demise of the democrat party or the demise of the republic.

Which of the two falls will depend upon (1) how genuinely informed the American electorate is, and/or (2) how well-oiled the voter fraud machines in the big cities are.

But none of this is deserving of headline news status. After all, the Vice President accidentally shot a hunting companion, who will recover completely. Finding out when the President was told, and why he did not immediately call major news outlets, is far more deserving of the attention of the electorate than the fact that major American leaders (among them, two ex-Presidents, and one ex-Vice President, whose counterfeit allegiance to this republic ended when they left office, if not earlier) are regularly committing treason on enemy soil, during a time when that enemy openly and violently threatens the very existence of their homeland and their countrymen.

~ joanie ....

[joanie-f]

correction:

It’s interesting that the fact that a former American Vice President stood on Saudi Arabian soil today and accused the American government of committing 'terrible abuses' against Arabs, by indiscriminately rounding them up and holding them in deplorable conditions.

[Jhohanna]

ACK. you mean it gets worse? I'm feelin' every second of the load in these bones. But then... they aren't your normal ones, either! :P :D

[dirtboy]

ACK. you mean it gets worse?

Yeah, the power and drivetrain warranty expires when you turn 40. And then your transmission starts acting up and your engine starts knocking. And don't even ask about the muffler.

[Squantos]

My feel good measure about all this fuss over the VP shooting Peasants vs Pheasants, errr whatever, is that something really neat is happening while the village idiots (MSM) are being distracted with this shiney thang they think is nooooooze !

MSM needs to stay on this non-story while GW Inc gets Americas business taken care of......

Stay safe Joanie !

[1L]

Mona Charen also disagrees with your ridiculous statement that this is a "signficant story." Her exact words were that this "has zero public relevance," and she couldn't be more correct.