CBS' Plante: "Dick Cheney Wouldn't Tell Us if Our Shirts were on Fire"

The Early Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[RedEyeJack]

he wouldn't walk across the street to piss on you if you were on fire. Nor would I...

AMEN!

[beyond the sea]

By the way, again, thank you for this each day. Your work and perspective is A-1.

You make FR just that much more superlative!

[Mo1]

"But if it were up to Dick Cheney, he wouldn't tell us if our shirts were on fire, for heaven's sake."

Not true .. The VP would tell them

But they are so bleeping arrogant, they would ignore what he said .... because they know everything

[Kay Syrah]

Actually we're being a bit unfair. If their shirts were on fire, Cheney would tell them, he'd have Scott tell them, he'd send all the papers a press release, but they wouldn't believe him.

White house press corps: What do you mean our shirts are on fire? What do you consider fire, you said smolder, do you mean fire, or fire potential, what do you mean by burn, what is hot, how do we know that burner is on? Ouch, you lied.

Or something like that

[maggief]

[JustaCowgirl]

Let me be the first to volunteer to light David Gregory up in front of the VP's office, just to test this hypothesis.

[beyond the sea]

"But if it were up to Dick Cheney, he wouldn't tell us if our shirts were on fire, for heaven's sake."

There are many in the old media whom I would not inform when a bus was going to run them over. That's how I feel about the damage the media does to this nation.

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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.

Huxley: “ The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." — Old Media lives these words.

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[Malsua]

Cheney should demand a new press corp just to really screw up their day.

[Brilliant]

Imagine you're a member of the media, and in your heart you believe that a major official wouldn't mind seeing you burn to death.





Forget the major official. The average guy feels pretty much the same way.

[OESY]

Bill Plante: Big Time

[beyond the sea]

lol

[maggief]

Marcelle & Senator Leahy, Robin Smith & Bill Plante

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Many thanks, bts - it means a lot to know that fellow FReepers enjoy my threads.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

I second that emotion!

[SampleMan]

Note, Clinton went a year after Monica story broke before having a press conference. Press corps didn't asked on round of questions when it broke, got no answeres, and then stopped saying, "We've asked the question, what else do you want us to do?"

[OldEagle]

"Where was all this indignation when Hillery, Nussbaum, and Maggie Williams were keeping the police out of Vince Foster's officer while they "sanitized" it? "

Good one!

[OESY]

And some said the VP wouldn't tell him.

[Brilliant]

What they should do is simply discontinue press briefings and put them all out of a job. They aren't accomplishing anything anyway. The press conferences are nothing more than an opportunity for the press to let loose a string of catcalls on the press secretary.

[The_Victor]

Back in New York, Harry Smith broke into nervous laughter, perhaps aware that Plante had let the cat out of the bag on just how much the White House press corps disdains the Vice-President of the United States.

Like we didn't already notice?

[N. Beaujon]

rofling!