“Ch’ dum dum dum, honey what has he done?
Ch’ dum dum dum, it’s the sound of his gun”
“The whole world’s come undone” and the media have lost their ever-loving mind.
Why has a one-day story turned into a frenzied media circus that just won’t shut up about it? Because anytime there is a remote chance of chastisement to this administration the media goes bonkers.
There have even been calls for his resignation by these extreme leftists.
Now that Cheney chose to release the story immediately to the local press and “cherry-picked” Fox News channel to broadcast his press conference all the other media cried foul. Chris Matthews hosted a whole segment on the process in which Cheney released the story to the media.
They’re seriously becoming obsessed with themselves. The press hardly concentrates on news anymore – they only report on how good or bad of a job their competition stations and newspapers are doing.
Al Franken swore that all hunters are drunkards and Cheney must have been drinking. Katy Couric, in her accustomed swagger, suggested that Cheney should have notified the press a whole lot sooner and should have been more fair to who they released it to. (According to Couric he probably should have immediately had his assistants get the Today Show on the line even before checking in on his friend.)
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed that the White House was blaming Harry Whittington for the accident, even after the interview with the vice president on Fox News where he blatantly said it wasn’t Whittington’s fault.
It’s obvious that the media has an abnormal hatred with the Bush/Cheney administration and it’s completely out of control. They view him as an evil man who is always poised to commit bad acts.
Their fixation with the presumption of guilt against Cheney is just outrageous. I would really like to turn on the news and see an interview with our amazing Olympic teams that are dominating in Torino.
We should have heard “Cheney accidentally shot his friend while quail hunting in Texas,” and that could have been a great scooping story for a day or two.
But after Mr. Whittington is recovering without any complications and they found out it really was a simple hunting accident, they choose to make one bird into a covey of quail. (Pardon the pun.)
Now you’re now hearing “Cheney’s actions were deliberate,” “He was drunk,” and “He tried to cover it all up.”
Give me a break. It was a hunting accident that resulted into an injured man who is recovering just fine.
I would have said the same thing if this would have happened to Ted Kennedy, I mean, you don’t hear me still raising questions about how he got drunk, ran his car in a lake, and left his girlfriend to drown in Chappaquiddick Lake, do you?

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