Inside the Shooting at the Ranch

TIME ^ | 2/19/2006 | John Cloud

[wjersey]

The story that never dies.

[68skylark]

The story that never dies.

The MSM just can't stop digging their hole deeper and deeper.

[Cicero]

Blah, blah blah blah, blah!

[norwaypinesavage]

"How one shot turned a genteel quail hunt into a political crisis"

In your dreams, Time. In your dreams.

[DoughtyOne]

The Internet is still excreting rumors.

That's being a bit generous to the left. In fact it's been the left and their pimps in the media that have been exreting this "stuff". This was a non-story from day one. It merited about a paragraph.

[TomServo]

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

[muawiyah]

Amazingly there are articles on the net about the penetrating power of steel birdshot ~ although it doesn't have quite the range of the older lead birdshot, it's sharper, and goes further.

I presume Cheney and company were on the up and up and used steel, not lead, birdshot!

Time is so criminally irresponsible these days they obviously no longer employ fact checkers.

[Darkwolf377]

Katharine Armstrong initially told a Texas reporter that there had been "zero, zippo" drinking that Saturday. But Cheney later said on Fox News that he had had "a beer" at lunch.

A beer. At lunch.

Oh.

My.

God.

The nation will be shaken, I say SHAKEN to its foundations as a result of this unbelievable, unimaginable, horrifying Constitutional crisis!

[sure_fine]

MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[GSlob]

"The story that never dies."
Not when they - in their turn of the phrase - keep "excreting" it, a teaspoonful every five minutes. What a terrible waste of paper. They need pepto-bismol (TM).

[Ligeia]

How one shot turned a genteel quail hunt into a political crisis?

Time only wishes it were a political crisis.

[panzer_grey]

"How one shot turned a genteel quail hunt into a political crisis"

The writers should look in the mirror. Amazing, utterly amazing, but unfortunately not surprising.

[Darkwolf377]

According to Cheney, Katharine Armstrong suggested--and he agreed--that she be the one to make the incident public. Cheney was traveling without a press aide, and anyway, the thinking was, she had witnessed the shooting. Armstrong is also a well-connected G.O.P. lobbyist, and she doubtless wanted to help shape the story.

Can you imagine how this would have played had Cheney made the announcement?

"In an unusual move, Cheney made the announcement. "He was just trying to get the first story out himself," said a democrat college professor who has nothing to do with the shooting. "This is classic spin--who's going to dispute what the vice president says? Why didn't the witness give out the story first, instead of the shooter? Do we allow criminals to report their crimes first?"

[Laverne]

A much more honest statement is that the reporting on this has been a media crisis....there is no political crisis except in the minds of the old media loser leftists who write garbage like this.

[Bahbah]

LOL. You could write for the MSM.

[Darkwolf377]

You could write for the MSM.

Sheesh, what'd I ever do to you? ;)

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Oh brother, more "Controversy, Crap & Confusion" from the MSM, quite tiresome!

[Huevos Rancheros]

she doubtless wanted to help shape the story


what part was shaped, I wonder?

[gondramB]

"The story that never dies."

Have you seen the new Time cover? A profile shot of President Bush with Cheny behind him and the caption says "STICKING TO HIS GUNS"

Admittedly Cheney's office didn't handle as well as they could have but this over-reaction is insane - there is no real story - Cheney had an accident and Cheney doesn't like the press - it's amazing to see it still on the covers of magazines.

[OldFriend]

The crisis accrued to the media.

They deserve the attacks BIG TIME.