From: "Mark" 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "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?>
>>
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> It's just the bunker hill mentality of Cheney that has exacerbated the
> situation.


The alledged bunker hill mentality you mean, that started when a bunch of
lefties got their panties in a bunch about energy talks -- talks the
Supreme Court said needn't be made public. 

>You even have Reagan's and Bush Sr's press secretaries saying the incident
>was handled badly.

Another day in the spotlight for people live and breathe that crap


> 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.

Whether he was seriously injured as it appears now, or if it was a minor
thing as it appeared at the outset, is irrelevent to the mountain the press
is building. 

> 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.

I don't think there was any initial secrecy, and if there are questions
about the choice of hospital I've not heard them, but then I don't normally
read Kos, DU, and Talking Points Memo. As it turns out too, some doctors
that used to practice at that hospital and with the doctor in charge, are
now in DC and are consulting with same doctor. Is it hospitals that are
experienced or doctors?

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

No, it's the self-absorbed, self-important White House press corps that's
doing that, the poor little babies got their feelings hurt when some
"lesser than thou" reporter got the story on Sunday morning
instead of the pomp and circumstance crowd led by David Gregory.

> 

I agree, it's nice to see Gregory make a fool of himself.

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