MORON
Posted on 02/14/2006 4:39:05 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 14, 2006 - 07:33
Imagine you're a member of the media, and in your heart you believe that a major official wouldn't mind seeing you burn to death. Think that might affect the way you cover him?
A comment this morning by veteran CBS reporter Bill Plante, while perhaps intended to be light-hearted, pulled back the curtain on just how antagonistic the White House press corps believes VP Cheney to be toward them. But more importantly, it suggests how antagonistic they likely feel in return.
The topic was the Veep's accidental shooting of hunting partner Harry Whittington, and more particularly the very contentious press conference yesterday between the White House press corps and presidential spokesman Scott McClellan.
Plante claimed that:
"It's not about us, it's not about the reporters. It's about the fact that the White House is expected to disclose any information about what happens to the President and the Vice-President as soon as they can. In any other White House that I've covered, and that's several as you know, the Vice-President would never have this kind of power [to control the flow of information."
Plante then added his zinger:
"But if it were up to Dick Cheney, he wouldn't tell us if our shirts were on fire, for heaven's sake."
Back in New York, Harry Smith broke into nervous laughter, perhaps aware that Plante had let the cat out of the bag on just how much the White House press corps disdains the Vice-President of the United States.
LOL!!!
We need a better one than that!...
Looking...
"Dick Cheney Wouldn't Tell Us if Our Shirts were on Fire"
I know I'm not the first to say: You're right, Plante.
I wouldn't either.
They need a reality check, maybe wrapped around a baseball bat.
Good point...they never did ask him how that teenaged prostitute managed to trip him and screw-up his knee!
Your statement sums it up, actually.
They ask such stupid questions, the kind a cub reporter for a high school newspaper could figure out with a phone call or two. And some are so stupid they don't require an answer.
I often wonder if they have their own Excellence In Craft Contests, and what categories offer awards:
1. Who can ask the most obnoxious question (winner Helen Thomas)
2. Who can best exemplify a clueless state
3. Who shows the most leftwing bias,
on and on.
How about: Your brain is missing?
Ya got that right..........!
I wouldn't either.
The White House Press Corps is pissed because they didn't get a chance to play with this story IMMEDIATELY---just think what great things they could have spun from it, if it had breathlessly been brought to them, the supreme arbiters of WHAT IS NEWS AND WHAT IS NOT. As far as they're concerned, it coulda been another story from the Iraq War.
I'm suing you.
I got burned touching #39.
I am getting a virtual lawyer.
MORON
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