I think Fleischer should keep quiet. He comes off as being another sell-out. There are already enough RINO sell-outs.
E Tu Ari?
I am just sick and tired of all of these people. Can't anybody just shut their big mouths for once in their miserable lives.
Are there any more folks who can pile on?
It's a press promoted story.
folks, we are going to have to start accepting it - this has not been handled well. we seem to forget everytime, that if our side leaves an information vacuum out there - the media fills in with whatever their version of events is, and we all know what that is. Cheney should have had a press conference today, take the jackals head on, give the information where its appropriate, and where the press oversteps its bounds as we saw today in the frenzy - slap them down.
It'll be fun after 2008 when Cheney can go on the public speaking circuit and speak his mind (about the press).
According to the local "infobabe" down there in Souf' Texas, it was reported Sunday morning.
If these people think the American people actually care about this, they are SO out of touch with reality! No one cares that it took 24 hours before the White House press corp found out and they think of this as a tragic accident. The Dems and the MSM are, once again, going down a dead end road that makes them look ridiculous!
The MSM is so insanely angry at and obsessed with Bush and the Republicans that they can't view the world through any other prism than that which validates their prejudices.
Hey, it's not Cheney's fault that the MSM is incompetent. The art of investigative journalism is dead. Today's press corps is just plain lazy.
First of all, if each and every reporter had been personally contacted by Cheney himself, it would not have reduced their rabid dog frenzy about this story one iota, if anything, catering to the massive egos like little Davy Gregory and his pals would (in their minds) suggest that the Vice President was in a position of weakness and as "friendly" as they have been to this Administration, that would only encourage them to attack with even greater ferocity.
Second, no matter what the Vice President and/or his staff did or said, the White House Press Corpse would still have been hammering McClellan on this story, because there are ripe possibilities for a rewarding game of "gotcha" and "Prez said/Vice-Prez said", and they would like nothing better than to instigate even minor disagreements between the President and his VP, either personally, or at the staff level. Don't we know by now that the press views this Administration as their own personal enemy? They do!
Ari, Marlin and past press secretaries (oh my, did I forget David Gergen?!? *gasp*) need to STFU because they are not privy to what is or is not going on behind the scenes, McClellan is making the best of a bad situation, and while he isn't my idea of a great press secretary, he's got the job, and he's doing the best he can.
The only thing Vice President Cheney needs to do, is to send the same message to these howling hounds of media-hell as he sent to Senator Leaky Leahy back in 2003(?), which was "Go F--K Yourselves".
Third and finally, the most important issue here is the recovery of Harry Whittington, this was a terrible accident, and fortunately nobody was killed.
Unlike in July 1969.
He's right, but given the current situation, he should know to keep quiet.
Shut up Ari, this isn't helping.
Psychotic muslim mutants are preparing to slaughter us and all we can do is focus on some insipidly stupid third-rate accident that no thinking person should give a sh*t about!! Now I know all of us would like to catch Davey "Girlie-Man" Gregory in an elevator and tune up this pantiwaist dweeb until his face resembled a Mack Truck road kill, but enough! Our first enemy is the Religion of Peace. After we kill them we can start working on the liberal socialist communist media,...sort of a fun celebration after the war!
Republicans can be their worst enemy. Unlike Democrats who circle the wagon and routinely defend the indefensible, Republicans can't even stay on a simple message. While I can appreciate the higher standards that Republicans try and live up to, some times they go overboard in these attempts.
Besides undermining each other, they often set themselves up for failure as the media can't wait to jump on any mistake they make. The media and libs obviously apply double-standards; sadly, Republicans often help contribute to this by their own actions that put themselves above others...even within their own party.
While I can appreciate the honesty and integrity some show, many times I can't help but think that it is more self-serving than anything else. Ari should've just shut-up or attacked the media for going overboard; instead, he put himself above McClellan and Cheney, feeding right into their hands. This may not have been handled well; but why give the mediacrats the satisfaction of any vindication over something so insignificant.
Et Tu Ari?
Anyone can tell you that I am no big fan of the administration, but why the hell is the whitehouse obligated to report on a private affair that happend on private land that has nothing to do with the governing of the country?
Reading this article just reminded me that McClellan has now been doing this job longer than Ari and still sucks at it. The VP's staff should be doing the point work on this though. He is right about that. What else do they get paid for? Going to undisclosed locations? Let McClellan deal with Bush's PR.