All those White House reporters need to go hunting with me...
Posted on 02/13/2006 10:58:28 PM PST by smoothsailing
The boys of 'Scoop,' hot on the hunt
By Wesley Pruden
Published February 14, 2006
Alas, a scandal the city slickers in the White House press room, who know everything, can't understand. Dick Cheney peppers a man with birdshot on a quail hunt in Texas.
Guns, bad. Quail hunting, bad. So far, so good. There must be a capital crime in here somewhere. But what happened next could have been out of a rewrite of "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh's classic press novel about the empty vanities of posturing journalists trying to cover their ignorance with bluster and bullying.
The man who took a face full of birdshot -- tiny pellets the size of BBs -- was quickly relegated to a bit part. He wasn't seriously hurt, he's recovering, and he isn't mad at the vice president. But in Washington, where making a set of matched luggage out of a sow's ear is a thriving industry, the politics are far more important than what happened to Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Austin lawyer who was a member of the hunting party. The shooting was an accident; no one suggests otherwise (yet). Mr. Whittington violated the protocol of the hunt by not announcing that he was walking across the line of fire when a covey of quail suddenly took flight, and Mr. Cheney fired.
For many of the White House reporters, accustomed to getting their snippets of news out of a government spoon, having to learn about the incident from the local newspaper was the insult beyond injury. The posting of the transcript of the "gaggle," the mid-morning torturing of Scott McClellan, the president's press agent, offers the full flavor of Men at Work around his desk:
David Gregory of NBC News: "The vice president shoots a man, and he feels...
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Yes! Yes!
*Snicker*
All those White House reporters need to go hunting with me...
Already the comedians have pounced on the story and by tomorrow the water-cooler jokes will have completely ventilated the one story they hoped for and lost.
Advantage Dick "Shotgun" Cheney.
Ain't that David Gregory a lulu? He looked like a mad teenager at the press meeting.
These media people need to get over themselves. This is getting boring .. it's the same old, same old all the time.
Don't you mean Dick "The Shooter" Cheney?
That's what the press kept calling him today, "the shooter," except for Carl Cameron who said, "...Cheney pulled the trigger..."
It was so gangsta.
Thanks. I stole it from somebody over at The Corner on NRO.
You're exactly right.
They missed the "blood shot" and they're going for the throat.
And Brit's signoff was classic, "Keep your head down Carl."
And you know what else?
They honestly cannot believe that we'll know what to think without them telling us the "facts."
But I ramble...
Think about it, the audacity of that woman to talk to a local reporter and deny them, them!, the opportunity they have earned through countless hours of waiting and doing nothing of finally, finally!, taking down the brains of the outfit.
Because after all, Bush is an idiot so Cheney has to go.
great post
~bump~
Think of all the awful things they've said and intimated about him -- and they are surprised when he goes around them?
Not me.
And I hope he's laughing his A$$ of tonight.
LOL! I saw that too,and as soon as Brit said it, Carl turned to look behind himself and ducked! To funny!
I'd love to stay up and laugh, but I have to go get this hand/wrist thing checked again tomorrow!
Nite.
I bet his staff put together a gag-reel of all the comedians and he's tickled pink.
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