"Who knew what and when?" - Media Misfires
Day 4 into the Cheney hunting accident news cycle has shown how far the left will go to smear and distort. At first, it was the elite press who was pitching a tantrum over not being told immediately of the incident. White House Spokesman McClellan effectively told David Gregory to go pound sand. That only helped in whipping the media into all sorts of accusations and theories. If you follow their logic, Cheney should have dropped everything (including his friend), immediately put out a press statement and prostrated himself for the press. Nevermind that Whittington required medical attention and was the priority. So we have the following from our wacky wacky lefty friends:
NBC White House reporter Kelly O'Donnell - "The official White House transcript of the interview shows Cheney said 'I had a beer at lunch.' Fox News did not show that particular clip during Brit Hume's program." This is a lie. It was on the program and in the transcript.
Al Franken - "It's inconceivable that you don't go to the hospital unless there's a reason you don't go to the hospital. If you had been drinking, you wouldn't go to the hospital. Or, you're an amazing jerk, that's the other. Or both." No, I think you are an ass.
CNN's The Situation Room Jack Cafferty - "It didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the Vice President to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit-down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?...he's not going to get any high hard ones from anybody at the F-word network" That's some class there, Cafferty..."F word" How about you STFU?
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Early Show CBS: "...I'm not sure real men hunt..." Oh, there's the "real men" challenge.
New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove - "Get out there yesterday. Do an interview with -- if not someone from CNN, with Barbara Walters and cry." Because crying makes you a real man.
Diane Sawyer - "Our reporters, our team standing by to cover all the angles this morning from the medical condition to political and even potential legal fallout." There they go again... creating news instead of reporting it.
John Dickerson, Slate Magazine - "And at some point Cheney's starchy behavior is also insulting. Shouldn't there be some minimum level of explanation he's willing to offer as the second-highest ranking public official? When you nearly commit manslaughter as a public official shouldn't the honor of your office compel you to stand up and explain yourself in some fashion, at least say something in a press release and not just whisper it to a Texas rancher?" Manslaughter? Talk about spin.
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC - "Do the changes in his [Harry Whittington's] health alter how the event is viewed legally and, under the worse case scenario, could negligent homicide actually come into play?"
"The sheriff's office, though, issued a statement last night, in the conclusion that this was an accident, and also said no alcohol had been involved in it. But how would they know that? The sheriff's office did not interview the Vice President until 14 hours after all this happened. And the lower ranking sheriff's officers who did not know about the scheduling of that interview for Sunday morning, had been turned away when they tried to talk to Mr. Cheney on Saturday night." There's the "drunk" charge. I'm telling you, I don't make this up.
Bob Schieffer, CBS News - "You just couldn't make it up. The Vice President of the United States accidentally shoots a companion on a hunting trip. The White House keeps it a secret for a day. Then when it appears the wounded man is okay, it sets off laughter and jokes from every corner of America. But tonight the jokes have stopped and the whole thing has turned serious." Seriously, Bob...seriously.
Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC - "How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then. Every lawyer I've talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be: Was Cheney drunk?" *Sigh* The forehead speaketh.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews - "I don't know about you David and Dee Dee, but you're press experts and I don't know if you were shocked like I was, this was bottom of the fold in the New York Times and the Washington Post yesterday. IÂve talked to experts, they can't believe that the papers treated this as such a light issue. It only moved up to the top of the fold front page today in both of those journals. I find that interesting, I want to talk to you when we come back. Has the press been playing this down, this story?" 'Spittle-lip' Matthews actually thinks the press is down playing the story? What is he? Drunk?
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- Media miffed that they weren't informed before the spend shotgun shell hit the ground.
- Lack of a statement leads media to question the "super secret" atmosphere that surrounds the White House.
- Cheney was under the influence of alcohol. Because we all know: Big white guys with guns in Texas mean booze.
- Cheney was sending a message to Scooter Libby to keep quite in his upcoming testimony.
- Rove was behind it. When isn't he?
- Cheney's interview on FOX News lacks credibility because he chose to avoid the "hard questions" from the rest of the elite media.
- Jill Sobule, lefty musician, infers that hunting trip was really a homosexual tinged love fest by way of "Brokeback Mtn". If I had any of her CD's, I'd make sure I packed them the next time I go shooting. Since I don't have any, I can only hope that she ends up in the .99 bin at a used CD store.
NBC White House reporter Kelly O'Donnell - "The official White House transcript of the interview shows Cheney said 'I had a beer at lunch.' Fox News did not show that particular clip during Brit Hume's program." This is a lie. It was on the program and in the transcript.
Al Franken - "It's inconceivable that you don't go to the hospital unless there's a reason you don't go to the hospital. If you had been drinking, you wouldn't go to the hospital. Or, you're an amazing jerk, that's the other. Or both." No, I think you are an ass.
CNN's The Situation Room Jack Cafferty - "It didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the Vice President to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit-down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?...he's not going to get any high hard ones from anybody at the F-word network" That's some class there, Cafferty..."F word" How about you STFU?
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Early Show CBS: "...I'm not sure real men hunt..." Oh, there's the "real men" challenge.
New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove - "Get out there yesterday. Do an interview with -- if not someone from CNN, with Barbara Walters and cry." Because crying makes you a real man.
Diane Sawyer - "Our reporters, our team standing by to cover all the angles this morning from the medical condition to political and even potential legal fallout." There they go again... creating news instead of reporting it.
John Dickerson, Slate Magazine - "And at some point Cheney's starchy behavior is also insulting. Shouldn't there be some minimum level of explanation he's willing to offer as the second-highest ranking public official? When you nearly commit manslaughter as a public official shouldn't the honor of your office compel you to stand up and explain yourself in some fashion, at least say something in a press release and not just whisper it to a Texas rancher?" Manslaughter? Talk about spin.
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC - "Do the changes in his [Harry Whittington's] health alter how the event is viewed legally and, under the worse case scenario, could negligent homicide actually come into play?"
"The sheriff's office, though, issued a statement last night, in the conclusion that this was an accident, and also said no alcohol had been involved in it. But how would they know that? The sheriff's office did not interview the Vice President until 14 hours after all this happened. And the lower ranking sheriff's officers who did not know about the scheduling of that interview for Sunday morning, had been turned away when they tried to talk to Mr. Cheney on Saturday night." There's the "drunk" charge. I'm telling you, I don't make this up.
Bob Schieffer, CBS News - "You just couldn't make it up. The Vice President of the United States accidentally shoots a companion on a hunting trip. The White House keeps it a secret for a day. Then when it appears the wounded man is okay, it sets off laughter and jokes from every corner of America. But tonight the jokes have stopped and the whole thing has turned serious." Seriously, Bob...seriously.
Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC - "How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then. Every lawyer I've talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be: Was Cheney drunk?" *Sigh* The forehead speaketh.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews - "I don't know about you David and Dee Dee, but you're press experts and I don't know if you were shocked like I was, this was bottom of the fold in the New York Times and the Washington Post yesterday. IÂve talked to experts, they can't believe that the papers treated this as such a light issue. It only moved up to the top of the fold front page today in both of those journals. I find that interesting, I want to talk to you when we come back. Has the press been playing this down, this story?" 'Spittle-lip' Matthews actually thinks the press is down playing the story? What is he? Drunk?
Gratuitous Photo Montage
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