Posted on 02/14/2006 5:31:24 PM PST by jmc1969
Fleischer, who was Bush's first press secretary - from 2001 to 2003 - told E&P that Cheney's accidental shooting of Texas attorney Harry Whittington on Saturday during a hunting trip should not have taken nearly a day to be reported.
"It would have been better if the vice president and/or his staff had come out last Saturday night or first thing Sunday morning and announced it," he said during a phone interview Tuesday. "It could have and should have been handled differently."
But Fleischer also took a jab at the reporting frenzy surrounding the story, saying most Americans are not as focused on it as the White House press corps. "The press is largely right on the issue--but it can be right and go too far," he added.
He also said that if he were still in the White House, he would urge the vice president's office to take some of the heat off Bush's staff: "I think you go to the vice president and say, 'you need to be handling this.'"
Fleischer's comments came just hours after Marlin Fitzwater, who served as press secretary to Bush's father and Ronald Reagan, also criticized Cheney, telling E&P he was "appalled" at the response to the incident.
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Uh, gee, Doc, I have no idea why I would give their opinion weight, other than one is the previous White House spokesman and one is the current spokesman. Other than that, they obviously don't know what they are talking about.
"Honest criticism is a good thing - it ensures you learn from your mistakes instead of repeating them."
And please remember that "honest criticism" among conservatives a good thing even if you disagree with it, dirtboy.
That's a good one. I'm the one dissenting from the party line here, but I'm the one who disagrees with honest criticism?
Gawd, concepts on FR are getting twisted worse than Mr. Bill lately.
So? This is Cheney's first accident in 15 years.
dirtboy: I dissent from the party line, too. But you have been getting over excited about a not so important issue.
Here is where I dissent from the White House:
All: Tonight Mark Levin had an extremely important interview with Rep. Peter King about Arabs controlling six of our ports.
BY ALEC MAGNET - Staff Reporter of the Sun
February 16, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/27690
Members of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's board of commissioners will meet next Wednesday to discuss the proposed deal that would grant control of significant operations at one of their ports to a company owned by the Dubai government in the United Arab Emirates, a country with ties to terrorism.
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Yesterday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King urged the Bush administration to reconsider federal approval of deal for reasons of national security.
"The White House can stop this deal ultimately, and I've asked them to go very slow and look at it very carefully." Mr. King, a Republican of New York, told the Associated Press. "The thing to do is find out if any of our departments have security concerns."
The Associated Press quoted Mr. Foley yesterday as saying, "If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the president says, we should be overly critical of handing over the management of our ports to any foreign countries, post 9/11."
Read the rest at above link.
Write, e-mail and call your reps.
==> Since the offices are now closed, I thought I would start the ball rolling, by leaving a message on my reps' answering machine. I said that the Arabs will be controlling security of six of our ports, including the Port of New Orleans, and I hope he will do everything in his power to reverse this.
(I admit it. I'm sneaking this in here, because it is soooo important for our national security.)
Ari can go in the men's room and check his Jockeys to see if there are really 2 (very) small round soft thinggies down there. I don't think he has any, and he is a class A backstabber, IMO.
Because having the Vice President involved in a shooting accident is significant news, and waiting to get the story out only creates an impression that something is being hidden, whether or not it is.""
If this is so significant a news story, why are you not equally incensed that Harry Reid had a stroke last fall and his office waited more than 3 days to inform the press? No such outcry then. For constituents of Reid, this was significant, don't you think?
Oh, puh-leeze. I am well aware of Dem and MSM hypocracy. But that doesn't mean we don't critically analyze how our guys deal with situations.
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