From: "Mark" 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote: ...Ah yes
anyone, even stalwart Republicans that oppose the Cheny troll are
> suspect.

No, not suspect, just being who they are, whether they're right or not is
open to conjecture.

>>> 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. 
>>
>
> People are prosecuted over hunting accidents. "I'm sorry"
and a $7 check
> usually doesn't let someone easily off the hook.

From what I understand the cops are on board with the accident, as are all
parties involved. Further, I understand that the $7 "Quail" stamp
is new this year and tons of hunters are getting the same fineless warning
to update their paperwork.

>>> 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?
>>
>
> I would say the staff. The story may not go anywhere but my point was that
> the only reason it now exists is due to Cheney's handling of events

No, the only reason it exists is because lefties are trying desperately to
find something, anything to get Cheney in their frustration at not being
able to do so for the past 6 years.

>>> 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.
>>
>
> Hey it's fine by me. Bush is trying to get a message out on his policies
> and all the press is doing is blathering about Cheney and questioning
> events. Cheney should at least take some lessons from Bush on press
> relations 101

Uh, wha? The press hates Bush, what lessons are these?

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