I still don't see the big deal.
Great. Let's see the Barrett report in it's entirety then!
Cheney shoots buddy, waits overnight to tell anyone... It's old news, especially after Mr. Whittington spoke to the press when he was released from the hospital. That pretty much should have put this whole ordeal to rest.
"Any discrepancy between these accounts wouldn't matter so much if the Veep had been answering questions all along — in the faith that people would understand, sooner or later. But he doesn't seem to have had that kind of faith in We the People, or just in the truth. That's another quality important in a leader, or just in anyone: faith. Faith in other people's fairness. Faith that telling the truth as best one can all along, rather than trying to manage the news, is the best policy."
I think he was devastated after shooting his friend and didn't want to appear in public right away.
And the next day seems fine to me.
This would be closer to being a big deal is Cheney was trying to position himself to run for President.
What on earth has gotten into JWR? Seems like everything I've seen from them posted here recently is wrong headed. I never would have expected it.
Well the VP handled it fine. The media botched it as usual. Brownie did work hard but it wasn't enough for such a huge disaster. But if those are the two big concern this writer has with Bush, so be it.
These dirty little bastards in the press corps think that
they are an important part of the government. The have every
right to print their crap, but they have no right to a
briefing by elected officials--particularly in completely
personal matters. By releasing the story to the Corpus paper,
Cheney did exactly the right thing.
OK. This is bad. It is going to be bad no matter what.
The MSM already hates the VEEP, and will play this to the hilt about how the VEEP is reckless and trigger happy and this quail hunt is a perfect analogy to the Iraq War.
The stories are practically typesetting themselves. So what is the VEEP to do?
What other story can possibly overshadow the one that practically cries out to be written? What other angle can deflect the MSM from their inevitable response? This is a chance of a lifetime to destroy the VEEP, which the vultures in the press have wanted to do, more than anything else, for the last five years.
What could possibly distract them? What does the White House Press Corp care about even more than sticking it to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? What one thing in the Whole Wide World could possibly take precedence over taking down a Vice President and seriously wounding the President?
What matters to them more than anything else is their own positions. What the primping, preening Prettyboys in the White House Press Corp care about most is their own image as dispensers of the Nation's news. What they love, above all, is that they be respected, kowtowed to, and that they be the first to know.
So what does an intelligent, insightful, and fearless political pro do?
He stiffs them. He keeps them in the dark. He refuses to inform them for hours, as long as possible. He lets them know that proper respect is not being, and will not be, paid.
And then to twist the knife, he releases the story to the Corpus Christie Caller-Times.
And the White House Press Corp and the rest of the MSM has fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. Now the story is about privacy, and responsibility to inform and pay respect to the one group that the American People hold in even lower regard that Washington politicians.
It was a master stroke. It was bold, innovative, and perfectly executed. I have never seen the like in my whole life, and probably never will again. And still the MSM has still not caught on. They probably never will.
Brilliant!
I think it's great that the MSM is on this false flag of a story........Presstitutes just keep chasing their tail in fine form !
But, but, but...he did get the story out and everyone knew it. Just because the MSM was not involved in the press release to a local paper and there was a delay of sorts is no real reason for the MSM to start criticizing. The writer at JWR might look around for more productive day job.
gotta keep this story alive.
If Cheney is involved in the Dubai business deal, then he is current events, otherwise he is yesterday.