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!
Sad.
By the way...it's us he didn't tell, not the press.
He should have trusted us.
So they and they alone can TELL us the "truth." First. Best.
Pure and simple, the story got out WITHOUT their spin and they're mad as hell about it.