"Obnoxious press prima donnas made people feel sorry for the W.H."

Cheney makes his own rules; he decides what intelligence matters, what secrets are worth keeping and what force is worth using, and he defends his positions with a breathtaking indifference to consequences and to complaint from those who disagree. He went off to spend a relaxing -- and unannounced -- weekend hunting with friends who also happened to be donors and lobbyists at a time when both species find themselves under fire. And it turned into a nightmare for everyone involved.

As for critics on the Hill, a House Republican leadership aide said Cheney will remain the lawmakers' top back channel to Bush. "A hunting accident, even with their bungling, isn't going to change that. It's been helpful that the press has been so obnoxious and such prima donnas. It made people here feel sorry for the White House."

Says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina: "I've seen nothing in my dealings with the White House to suggest that this vice president has lost any political standing within the administration."

And everyone was relieved to see Whittington emerge from the hospital, grateful to his doctors, gracious to the press, sorry for what Cheney had been through and describing the whole thing as a "cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/19/coverstory.tm/index.html

I dont feel sorry for the Whitehouse.
I wish they'd ALL go hunting with the Vice Pres.

boofrickedyhoo

about one billion was wasted by the pentagon.. the rest to make a Wet Brain Alcoholic Drug Addict Mental Midget Sociopath look better than RayGun

that's why Dems have no access to good political strategists, they can't keep them gainfully employed.

The GOP, OTOH, uses our tax dollars to keep their gold plated PR agencies humming through the off election years.

Jaw dropping.

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"....my gosh, I've shot my friend. I've never experienced anything quite like that before." It was perhaps the most eloquent, emotionally unguarded moment from the notoriously buttoned-up Vice President. He seemed stunned, uncertain for once. And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the Thousand-Yard Stare—the paralytic shock that comes from seeing the impact that even low-caliber weaponry can have on human flesh.

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1161177,00.html

Then within the SAME article, JK, in using the perjorative term "Oprahfied", gives a favorable slant to NOT being emotionally recognizable.

...some of the mutilated bodies of GIs, because he de facto "pulled the trigger" on them, too. Thousands of gaping wounds, barrels of blood, bodies burned, heads bashed in, skin in shreds, blinded eyes...he pulled the trigger on them.

And then there are the tens of thousands of maimed and bloodied Iraqis, too, who are dead at his hand and just as innocent as Whittington. Children screaming, orphaned, mutilated; dogs eating corpses, innocents imprisoned and tortured and so on and on.

Cheney has "pulled the trigger" on hundreds of thousands of sufferers. Surely their unmeasureable suffering is as significant as that of an old white man with superficial wounds.

and Joe whined and whined about it- but couldn't refute Alterman's facts. In fact, his whole response was pretty pathetic.

Guess that's what happens when a shameless whore (and poor writer) goes up against a university professor.

Do you have a link or remember where you read it?

Thanks.

Klein's original whoring column (if you can stomach it:

"How to Stay Out of Power"

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,1147137,00.html

Alterman's initial article re: Klein, etc. (This one tells it like it is).

"Never Mind the Truth"

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060206/alterman

Rory O'Connor's take on the smackdown

"When Liberals Attack: Alterman vs. Klein" (as if Klein's a liberal- or want the Dems in power)

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/31330/

Alterman's next response

“A Fine Klein Whine.” (he's not exactly complementary of Rory O'Connor's "journalism, either-LOL). Ouch!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10990027/#Klein

I appreciate those links.

Oh for crissakes. These nazis can seemingly spin anything. Rove has been working overtime on this one. I think I saw puppet strings attached to Whittington the other day.

Time? BFD. Time Magazine just covering for they boys in the criminal cabal. Like this friggin' lead in to the story...

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-- For an entire week, the Bush administration has been tangled in the aftermath of the Cheney hunting accident. That might not seem like a long time, but Bush and Cheney have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done.

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Always remember, just because someone says something don't necessarily make it so. We're being lied to all the time. The media is always trying to divert our attention in another direction to cover for their corporate owners.

I don't think anyone feels sorry for Dead-Eye Dick. I think that they see him for the arrogant asshole that he truly is. Then there was the added surprised of exactly who he was hunting with (and without). That was just icing on the cake.

And as an aside, Dead-Eye looks so resentful and angry at blivet. I guess he forgot to guard his phyical reactions to him when they were taking that picture.