BIGTIME! 
Posted on 02/15/2006 11:50:49 PM PST by neverdem
Media: The wascally Washington press corps is at it again, upset that a local reporter got the scoop on Dick Cheney's hunting accident and asking what the president knew and when did he know it?
The press was already gunning for the vice president over whether he was behind the leak that Scooter Libby got indicted for allegedly fibbing about, and other issues. Now their version of a wanted poster has "armed and dangerous" added to it after Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion, attorney Harry Whittington.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan began his midday news conference with comments on the nation's stellar economic performance, with rapid job and GDP growth as a result of the Bush tax cuts. But when he opened the briefing to questions, there were no questions about the economy, just inquiries about another example of the vast wight-, uh, right-wing conspiracy about the hunting accident in Texas.
The incident occurred about 5:30 Saturday afternoon. In Washington, President Bush was told at 7:30 p.m. there had been a hunting accident. At 8 p.m., he was informed that Cheney had accidentally shot his friend.
When asked about the delay, McClellan replied, sensibly, that the first priority of the vice president and others was to make sure Whittington was okay and getting medical care, not to notify the Washington press corps or anybody else without knowing his status.
And the media reaction? One reporter asked McClellan if there "is any notion of reviewing your own communications apparatus? I mean this is sort of reminiscent of the levee story, frankly." The reference was to another media feeding frenzy — the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Another reporter, radio veteran Connie Lawn, actually asked whether it was proper for the vice president to offer his resignation — a question...
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BIGTIME! 
Oh yeah? Wait until tomorrow's headlines...
Has anyone thought about just briefing the Plano, Texas, Press Crop instead? Just quit briefing the DC vultures and make all announcements to Plano first.
It seems to me that these windbags need some deflating.
The press is and has been gunning for Republicans, period. They are total slaves to the Democrat party, and they think they're some sort of nobility. While liberals clap and cheer over any and everything rotten reported about this administration (no matter if it's slanted or fabricated), regular folks are getting weary of the media bias. Like the dinosaurs, the great media giants won't be prepared when their end comes, and no amount of blame will save them.
bttt
If they get wind of these, they'll be annoyed that they didn't think of them first.
I always thought Elmer was straight...
I can't figure out why they didn't say they needed time to notify the relatives of the man injured. If the press announces the VP shot a member of his hunting party who is now in ICU, it definitely isn't the way you want the man's grandkids to find out about it or for someone to assume it was Scalia that got shot!
Not that I want to oust our beloved Mr. Cheney. It just gives me a chuckle to think of the MSM with their underwear in a knot over Condi.
Did you see G. Gordon Liddy on Hannity and Colmes last night? Alan basically admitted that the "Democrats" were outraged over the delay in the VP's response, and GGL said he was delighted that someone on the left finally was admitting that the "press" (since that is what Colmes intended to say) is basically the mouthpiece of the Democratic party.
I say let the Demowhiners in the antique media continue to have their very public hissy fit and focus on their own childish tantrums while ignoring the NEWS that other outlets are planning to publish. When you can get IBD, the WSJ, AND the Washington Times to write snidely funny articles about the precious hurt feelings of the press, you know they've discovered that ridicule is the best response to someone as silly, pretentious, and irrelevant as the WH Press Corps.
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