From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote: ...While
I'm not a fan of
> Bush, I suspect he would have handled an incident
>> like this far better than Cheney has so far
>
> Let's see, Cheney brought his own team of doctors along on the hunt, had
> them attend to his friend who was accidentally shot, supervised the
> transfer to the hospital, reported the incident to the local police, went
> to the hospital to see how his friend was doing, agreed with one of the
> principals in the event that she should report it to the press, and she
> did the following morning.
>
> His only mistake, not calling the cell phone of NBC's David Gregory to
> report it to him personally before the last of the stray pellets hit the
> ground. It must suck for him that some podunk paper somewhere reported
> before he did.
>
> The term making a mountain out of a molehill pales in comparison to the
> arrogance of the White House Press Wimps in this case.  want to keep it on the front page to divert attention from the adventures
> of that other VP in Saudi Arabia?>
>

It's just the bunker hill mentality of Cheney that has exacerbated the
situation. You even have Reagan's and Bush Sr's press secretaries saying
the incident was handled badly.

A Vice-President shot someone and that person has a pellet in his heart
that every reasonable medical professional interviewed so far has said is a
serious problem. I would hardly call that a mountain in a molehill.

Now, because of the initial secrecy, there are even questions if
Whittington was transported to a hospital that would leak less news as
opposed to a more experienced one in Corpus Christi.

Cheney has made what might have been  3-4 day story ( provided Whittington
remains healthy ) into a month long event.



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