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wwIIvetsdaughter
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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: MEDIA GOES NUTS OVER CHENEY TIME LAPSE |
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Isn't it ironic that the same old media that is going bonkers over not being informed about the Cheney mishap (whaa whaa, no one told us and were important!) doesn't give a darn about Keg Kennedy not reporting the accident that took a life so as to protect his political a**? By the way, by many accounts, had Kegger acted as quickly as Cheney's party did Mary Jo may of been saved.  |
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LewWaters
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As I've read elsewhere, where was their outcry of immediate reports of Vince Fosters "suicide?" Where was the cry for minute by minute accounts of that?
Shows how bored the press corps gets on a slow news weekend, I guess. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| LewWaters wrote: | As I've read elsewhere, where was their outcry of immediate reports of Vince Fosters "suicide?" Where was the cry for minute by minute accounts of that?
Shows how bored the press corps gets on a slow news weekend, I guess. |
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I understand Cheney has some serious regrets over the incident. He was aiming at Helen Thomas.
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shawa
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Appropriate bumper sticker:
http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/13/huntwithcheney/
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Ohio Voter
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: MEDIA GOES NUTS OVER CHENEY TIME LAPSE |
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The feeding frenzy at the White House press room made it clear they wanted to be called before the ambulance. They showed themselves to be a bunch of selfish, idiotic, vultures.
I love it that a local Texas paper was given the scoop. 
| wwIIvetsdaughter wrote: | | Isn't it ironic that the same old media that is going bonkers over not being informed about the Cheney mishap (whaa whaa, no one told us and were important!) doesn't give a darn about Keg Kennedy not reporting the accident that took a life so as to protect his political a**? By the way, by many accounts, had Kegger acted as quickly as Cheney's party did Mary Jo may of been saved. |
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AMOS
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: Next of Kin. |
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| Some or all of the delay can be attributed to the process of notifing the next of kin of everyone present. The members of the hunting party and the security and medical personnel that accompany Cheney on a regular basis would all have relatives that should be advised before the dumb*** media gets it. |
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Snipe
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Seeing as how the weekend news is put in the can before close-of-
business on Friday afternoon, where can you get a reporter on a
Saturday evening?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Snipe wrote: | Seeing as how the weekend news is put in the can before close-of-
business on Friday afternoon, where can you get a reporter on a
Saturday evening?
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It's turned into a "news story" about a "news story".
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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| I think the Washington press corp's overinflated opinion of themselves also plays significantly into this story, after all, those chumps were beat out (in their minds) by a nobody report from the pissant little ol Corpus Christi Caller Times who earned his/her journalism degree from some third rate backwoods college, not presigious schools of higher learning like them! |
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The MSM want everyone to believe that there was some kind of a coverup so the VPs office should give them what they want. They should release a statement stating.......
Immediately after the shooting the VP slinked off to a motel room and spent several hours consulting with his lawyers and advisors trying to find someone else to blame for the shooting. When no one could be found to take the fall, they tried to design a scenario where the man was not really shot at all but got scratched up by prickly brush. They decided they could not trust the staff at the hospital to go along so they ditched that idea. By now it was late at night and they could not contact the CEO and legal staff at Halibuton who were to be asked to testify that at the moment of the incident, one of the gas flares in their oil field on the Armstrong ranch burst to many times its normal size and blinded the VP. That was to be the last ditch effort to cover up the whole affair but when that could not be pulled together, they decided they had to let the country know but to play with the egos and minds of the MSM they deliberately chose to let the landlady contact the local paper the next morning. |
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LewWaters
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Their "outrage" makes me still wonder where the Breaking News Alerts over Hillarys SUV running down a Police Officer when she got ina hurry back in October of 2001. Shouldn't we have received Alerts by now?
Newsmax
To date, she hasn't contacted the Officer to apologize or see if he were alright. In contrast, Cheney has kept in contact with his friend to see if there is any thing more he can do. |
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| LewWaters wrote: | As I've read elsewhere, where was their outcry of immediate reports of Vince Fosters "suicide?" Where was the cry for minute by minute accounts of that?
Shows how bored the press corps gets on a slow news weekend, I guess. |
Think Rush was reading what you wrote Lew. Good call.
| Quote: | | The same day that Hillary Clinton was scheduled to speak at a Democratic National Convention. "Newly released documents suggest that she was behind the 30-hour delay in releasing the late White House counsel Vincent Foster's suicide note to authorities. How the White House handled Foster's '93 death and the possibility that the administration officials improperly removed documents from his office or impeded an official search of it has been the subject of intense scrutiny by congressional Republicans and the media." I don't remember the media being that interested in it. The media was more interested in explaining and covering up and soft-selling whatever the administration's line was. It's just another illustration of how things are different when the media is covering Republican presidents versus Democrat presidents when they become pure sycophants. |
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One of the best commentaries I've seen on this madness comes from the pen of Tony Blankley. It's long but delicious:
| Quote: | The Shooting Party
By Tony Blankley
In the absence of any pressing news these days -- other than Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia, the turning over of our East Coast ports to be managed by a United Arab Emirates firm, the criminal leaking of vital NSA secrets to the New York Times, Mexican military incursions across our southern border, the Iraqi crisis, Congress's refusal to deal with the developing financial collapse of Social Security and Medicare, inter alia -- the White House press corp has exploded in righteous fury over the question of the vice president's little shooting party last weekend.
As I understand the profound concern of the ever-alert White House reporters, they smell a constitutional crisis because the shooting party failed to alert the media of the accidental shooting down in Corpus Christi, Texas. Well, actually, they did alert the Corpus Christi media -- but that didn't count. Unless the exalted ones have been formally informed by an official government press secretary, no public communication has technically occurred.
I checked the bylaws of the White House press corp, and they are right. It seems that the bylaws refer to Article XXIII of the U.S. Constitution, which expressly designates that White House reporters with a minimum annual income of $375,000 (plus minimum stock options equal to not less than two-thirds their yearly salary, plus use of driver and long sedan during business hours, of which hours must include post-deadline dinner engagements of a semi-social nature) are the exclusive recipients of all government information.
If information isn't hand-delivered in gilt-edged paper to them while they are reclined on their chaise lounges, it hasn't been released to the public. And if they don't report a fact, it hasn't happened. This provision is vital to a vigorous and independent free press. [I should note, my copy of the Constitution must be outdated, because it doesn't have an Article XXIII.]
Of course, this provision technically makes the White House press corp not reporters, but receivers -- sort of glorified shipping clerks, but with the prerogative to re-write and re-package the material before they deliver it to the public.
When an out-of-town newspaper got the scoop, the dignity of the White House press corp had been impeached, so they threw a public temper tantrum. As that has worked for many of them since their early childhood, they obviously expect it to work while on the job -- to use the term loosely.
To add to their indignity, the reporter for the Washington Post went on MSNBC dressed up in a hunting costume to ridicule the vice president. (It is said that the enfeebled and debased French dauphin, Charles VII, dressed in women's clothing to hide from Joan of Arc, who was trying to save France.)
I suppose most of us, as we rise in life, develop a sense of entitlement and pompous dignity. Doubtless we all think we are more important than we are. As Charles De Gaulle once sardonically observed, "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
But the Washington press corp, and particularly the White House press corp, has developed, as an institution, a grossly dilated view of itself. Most of us can tolerate arrogance if it is accompanied by extraordinary capacity and virtuosity. The brilliant scientist, the war-winning general, the great artists are entitled to their pride.
But the hallmark of the Washington Press corp these days is mediocrity, groupthink, a lack of curiosity and rampant careerism. These attributes were all on show in the shooting party incident. But this is just a trivial incident -- except for the poor, shot gentleman who suffered a heart attack, may he recover fully and quickly.
We live at a moment of revolutionary change in the international order. The rise and violence of radical, possibly caliphate-forming Islam and the huge, culture-changing, unexamined consequences of rampant globalization make the present one of the least predictable moments to be alive.
Both government officials and citizens are in desperate need of a national press corp that is alive to the change and digging to find factual hints of the near future. We need the kind of future-oriented intellectual vigor, curiosity and genuine iconoclasm that typified American reporters in the first half of the last century.
Instead, as the shooting party incident exemplified, we have in the White House at the most elite level of American journalism, self-absorbed, self-important men and women who stand on their prerogatives even over marginal and inconsequential matters.
Should they ever have a truly daring, creative, productive, hard-researched idea about what is going on in this dangerous world, they should alert the media. |
From Real Clear Politics
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coldwarvet
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: MEDIA GOES NUTS OVER CHENEY TIME LAPSE |
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[quote="Ohio Voter"]
I love it that a local Texas paper was given the scoop.
[quote="Ohio Voter"]
Appropriately so, someone getting shot in a hunting accident is a common occurrence that is worthy of a story in the local rag.
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