The Cheney shooting
So Dick Cheney has fessed up, something rarely heard from the Bush White House. He did shoot his hunting buddy and he's sorry about it, some say even depressed about it. Of course, the apology comes four days after the incident, which we didn't learn about until 24 hours after it happened.
But is this front-page news? Is anything the vice president does worthy of immediate coverage? Is there any difference between this incident and Clinton's White House liaisons with an intern?
But is this front-page news? Is anything the vice president does worthy of immediate coverage? Is there any difference between this incident and Clinton's White House liaisons with an intern?
posted by Larry Benjamin at 10:52 AM
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Is anything the veep does worthy of coverage? Probably not.
Is it worthy of coverage when he shoots a guy? I'd say so.
How is it any different from Clinton's dalliance with Lewinsky? Nobody in that incident ended up in the hospital. That's one difference right there.
I relish the fact that dems are going crazy over the Cheney hunting accident. It just shows how out of touch they are with middle america and people with common sense. Every week they seem to make bigger fools of themselves.
The Cheney hunting accident highlights the absurdity of hunting itself. They call it a "sport." How does sitting in a blind, waiting for a bird, and then killing the bird, qualify as sport? I say, save your ammo, in case you need to use it against the variety of animal that would threaten your life, your property, or your freedom -- the two-legged variety.
I think there are HUGE differences between Vice President's Cheney's hunting ACCIDENT and President Clinton's SLIP OF THE TONGUE -"I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Our government paid millions of dollars to find out if President Clinton was lieing. Vice President Cheney handled his PERSONAL accident in a proper manner. Quite frankly, I don't care so much what our government officials do on their private time as to how they spend our tax dollars . For example, in New Jersey hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent cutting a rap cd to promote voting! People will vote if they choose to or not. If they vote because someone has a good beat, I don't think I want them voting anyway!
The mainstream press hates Cheney and the administration.David Gregory is a prima donna, Helen Thomas already says she despises the administration and Dana Milbank of the WaPo made a complete ass of himself in reporting the accident.He belongs in a circus with the clowns.
For those who think the hunting accident is being overplayed by a sensationalist media out of touch with the regular people, 2 questions:
1. How many comments are there on this post so far, on the first day it's open?
2. How many comments are there on the rest of the APP blogs put together?
The media went into a frenzy when Cheney didn't make a statement for 24 hours.They hid the intern story for almost a year until Drudge broke the dress stain evidence, the Vince Foster story was barely reported until 5 days later and when Hillary and her advisors ran a security checkpoint and injured a guard it was given the ho hum by the dinosaur media.
No difference. Both mens incidents were accidents while pursuing their favorite hobbies.
The way that this incident was handled by Cheney is another example of how the current administration maintains a shroud of secrecy around everything it does - big or small.
Cheney made it news by non-disclosure and circumventing routine police handling of the investigation.
If one hunter shot another in New Jerseys recent bear hunt would it be news or just an accident to be covered up?
That Cheney shot someone while hunting could be played as front-page news. Is it front-page news for the Press? Perhaps on a slow news day. It would be front-page news, i think, if the fellow had actually ended up dying. Then, we are talking a whole different ballgame. I do think, however, that the media did blow out the withholding of the information out of proportion. This story was never going to get buried. Even if the VP wasn't as forthcoming as he should have been, the withholding of the story for 24 hours or so wasn't a national security issue or coverup and too much fuss was made about it.
oh come on, you know as well as I do - accepted editorial standards make anything involving the Vice President news, and legitimate news at that.
The discharge of a firearm even in the vicinity of the vice president is news, when that discharge sends somebody to the hospital.
The incident should have generated a police report, which you and I both know should have been public record within hours, the incident should have been on a police band radio, and some reporter in some news room should have picked up on it. It didn't happen that way, which should lead any legitimate news reporter to wonder why, and the job of the press...if its not telling truth to power sure as hell better be to keep an eye on
it.
The USVP is a heartbeat away from the US President. This means that everything is on the record. The question remains How Soon and under what circumstances.
We are human beings, suceptible to occasional human error. The VP has adequately reported the incident on his own timeline, not the timeline of the Washington press core. He clearly took personal responsibility and got the story out under very difficult circumstances. He accidently shot his friend. That is very difficult.
VPOTUS Cheney handled this unfortunate incident well by getting all of the facts before breaking the news through a trusted & knowledgable source to a local news paper. He has nothing to be ashamed of.
The whitehouse press core and specifically David Gregory have much to be asamed about. Gregory has apologized, but NBC needs to do the same.
Gregory needs to go back to local coverage for awhile to seek some humility, compassion and credibility.
Yes there is a difference between Whittington and Lewinsky.
Lewinsky involved the President, not the VP. Lewinsky happened inside the White House and inside the Oval office. Lewinsky worked for the White House. Clinton lied about it.
Whittington was shot on a ranch somewhere in Texas on private property, he does not work for the White House and Cheney never lied about it.
The press is keeping this story alive because they are upset that they weren't told for 24 hours. All I have to say is who cares! What right do you have to immediately know about the incident anyway. The incident was a private one, and had nothing to do with the country.
It is called diversion. Look at it this way. This shooting took the press away from the Abramoff mess, the Libby leak and the illegal spying issue. That is what the Bush cronies do best. Too bad their port contract blew open. They'd still be running with Cheney.
It was an accident! Period.
I only have one question. If someone shot you, would you apologize to the person who shot you?
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