Posted on 02/18/2006 4:31:49 AM PST by frankjr
It's been a rough and tumble week in the White House press room over the Cheney hunting story. Many viewers have written me with praise and plenty of criticism about my questioning of press secretary Scott McClellan.
Let me say at the outset that I was wrong to lose my temper at Scott McClellan. I've worked well with Scott since we first met during the 2000 campaign. Monday, he suggested my aggressive questioning about the disclosure of the hunting accident was a stunt for the cameras. He said this during a morning OFF CAMERA briefing, which undercut his point. Furthermore, I considered it a cheap shot. I said, "Don't be a jerk to me personally, just answer the question." I regret saying that because it's never appropriate to speak that way and because it created a distraction from the issues at hand.
Putting that aside, I do not apologize for asking tough questions about this story. I'm in the business of getting information -- as much of it as possible....I have not made any judgments about the facts of this story as it pertains to what happened on the Armstrong ranch....Mr. Cheney, in my view, acted as if he had something to hide.
Yet the debate playing out in the blogosphere, cable airwaves and on talk radio pits the Vice President against an allegedly left-wing, overly cynical, prissy White House press corps in a tizzy because it wasn't the first to know and angry because it hates the President and Vice President anyway. This is nonsense....Have you Googled transcripts from the Clinton administration at the height of the Lewinsky scandal?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynightly.msnbc.com ...
From one of the world's foremost experts at the art.
I was using "Dick" as an adjective...
Predictably pompous but incorrect!
A prick maybe, but not a proxy, because the public has not given him or the White House press gaggle the authority or the power to act for them. (If we had, we would have revoked it years ago.) That arrogant crew represents their MSM bosses, not us.
But I think Gregory must have gotten overwhelming negative comments on his performance. He took an almost contrite tone more than once, I don't think he would have done that if harsh criticism hadn't compelled him to do so.
Gregory contradicts himself and proves what a horrific little jackass he really is. That's a much kinder description of how I really feel about him. In the article he writes: "I have not made any judgments about the facts of this story as it pertains to what happened on the Armstrong ranch." Then several sentences later he writes: "Mr. Cheney, in my view, acted as if he had something to hide." This sounds like he has decided the VP had done something wrong.
He went on to challenge us to do a Google search and see how they had investigated the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I believe you will find the MSM did more to discredit the accusers of the Clinton's than they did to find the truth about the actions of the Clinton's. They never bothered to learn how the missing documents were miraculously discovered in the family library at the WH. Had they done a thorough job of investigating and reporting the actions of the alleged co-president, I don't think she would be a Senator today!
Good points.
Have Gregory or any other MSM propagandist followed up Sam Donaldson's excellent rape question?
Friggin' hypocrites...
Cheney shot his friend in the face by accident. Klintoon shot on purpose.
Then go get it - instead of demanding the government hand it to you, and screaming like a baby when they don't.
Liberals. Phishaw.
Not In Our Name.
That one stood out to me too. The American people have not elected or handed a "proxy" vote to the WH press corps.
Don't presume to speak for me, you pompous fool, Gregory.
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