Posted on 02/13/2006 5:16:58 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"Who watches this trash?"
My tagline says it all ;-)
You must getting tired have to repeat that all the time.
The MSM was ignored. The MSM is irrelevant to life in America.
The Democrat fault hunters and finders have an insatiable appetite for the "dark brown"!
The good news is that it shows that these threads continue to attract new readers. Sometimes it does get on my nerves when people snidely advise me to "stop wasting your time watching that trash", etc.
"Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Streisand on peyote."
The White House has no obligation to tell these buttheads in the press everything or anything for that matter.
You have already proven your infinitie patience simply by WATCHING those shows for us ; )
Here's an update from how the MSM peppered McClellan at the White House press "gaggle" today:
Published: February 13, 2006 11:30 AM ET
NEW YORK Reporters at White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's Monday morning press "gaggle" peppered him with questions about the 18-hour delay in any word emerging on Vice President Cheney's shooting incident in Texas on Saturday.
McClellan explained that the White House knew about the accidental shooting of a fellow hunter on Saturday night, but deferred to the vice president's office, which did not announce it. The vice president's office in turn deferred to Katharine Armstrong, the ranch owner in Texas where the shooting took place. She called a Corpus Christi reporter at midday Sunday and only then did the news come out.
McClellan also said Monday, according to The Associated Press, that "Bush and senior aides were told Saturday night by the staff of the White House Situation Room that somebody in the Cheney's hunting party was shot, but he said he was not told until Sunday morning that Cheney was the shooter. He said he contacted the vice president's office and everyone agreed they needed to get the information to the public quickly."
He explained further, The first priority
was making sure that Mr. Whittington was getting the medical care that he needed. The first priority Saturday night was making sure he receiving medical care and getting to the hospital and being taken care of, and thats what happened. The vice presidents office was taking the lead on making sure the information got out, and it did. The vice presidents office worked with Mrs. Armstrong to get that information out.
Matt Cooper, the Time magazine reporter, said on CBS's "The Early Show" today, "It's clearly an accident, but the fact that the White House didn't release this information, that it sat around for almost a day is in itself, bizarre."
In an online chat at the Washington Post site, the paper's White House reporter Peter Baker said reporters in D.C. are "flabbergasted" by the shooting. He indicated that the Post was looking deeply into how it was reported to the local sheriff and the exact condition of the victim.
"It sure woke up a lot of folks here in Washington on a quiet, snowy Sunday," Baker said. "Whether the story has legs I suppose remains to be seen." He said the delay question is "being asked a lot in Washington today...
"I'm not sure there is a standard protocol when the vice president shoots someone, but it's fair to say reporters prefer that news be disclosed in a timely fashion."
In response to another query he revealed, "we are looking today into the issue of the local sheriff's office and what involvement they had in this. Stay tuned, more to come."
Asked if knew of any other vice president shooting a man, Baker replied: "Obviously there was Aaron Burr shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, but that was actually intentional and in that case the victim died."
Someone posted on a thread about this last night that Cheney has a medical entourage that goes everywhere with him, including an ambulance. When this incident occurred, the man immediately received the best medical care. There was no delay in treating the guy.
I think this was intended for Dane, so here it is.
As if Good Morning America represented an unbiased news source. :::snicker:::
The sheer silliness of this whole thing is blowing me away (probably a poor choice of words!) I know quite well how to handle a shotgun, how accidents happen, and how terribly excited non-shooting liberals are about this accident.
I am adding another FR comment to my BEST OF:
1. Best comment I've read...from another FR thread:
"Miss Kopechne could not be reached for comment"
12 posted on 02/13/2006 6:02:31 AM CST by saveliberty ( :-) I am a Snowflake and Bushbot.)
2. LOL. How bout these lines for Cheney's next press corps dinner speech;
"Ted Kennedy and I are going hunting this weekend. He's driving and I'm riding shotgun."
"I took my wife hunting with me. She was scared out of her wits but decided to stay after Teddy offered to drive her home."
32 posted on 02/13/2006 6:33:09 AM CST by Callahan
You still think this a fake controversy?
Yes, the "delay to report the incident" is a fake controversy.
The VP and his folks should have gotten out in front of whatever the story is and, since they didn't, there is no way it is going away any time soon. The President doesn't need this crap right now.
If Dick Cheney had personally called David Gregory the minute after it had happened, this story was not "going away" - I think you and I said everything we had to say on this yesterday and simply disagree.
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