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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Wow, the media really has gone overboard onthe Cheney hunting accident story. Of course, some of the jokes are funny and will haunt Cheney for the rest of his life. But there is no big scandal on the media having to wait a day before they announced the story to the press. Michelle Malkin has a roundup of the links plus this video of Dana Milbank dressing up as Dick Cheney on Keith Olbermann's show. Ha, ha. What wit! Expose the Left has lots of links of the media going crazy of this one plus has already set up a Cafepress site with bumper stickers with a slogan that puts it all in perspective. Musing Minds has a partial transcript of the press briefing with poor Scott McClellan with the media going crazy and asking such questions asIs it proper for the Vice President to offer his resignation or has he offered his resignation?As Musing Minds says, the media is still "stuck on stupid."
Would this be much more serious if the man had died? Would that change the equation?
I suspect that the great majority of the American people realize that this was an accident. They know that Cheney must feel awful about injuring his friend. But they also know that the American people didn't suffer by having to wait a day over the weekend to learn the story.
I wonder how many of the Washington press corps have ever been hunting in their lives. I never have. I have no idea how common it is to have such an accident. People were writing into the Corner all yesterday to say that it was common or not common. I think we're experiencing another divide between rural and urban cultures in America or at least those who enjoy hunting and those who wouldn't touch a gun for anything.
As Mark Steyn writes in to sayBut I can't see how the hunting thing is going to hurt Cheney or the GOP. For one thing, even when they've got the bones of a case, you can always rely on the Democrats and the media to over-react and, in so doing, come across as a lot of prigs. Already, NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, has been huffin' an' a-puffin' all over the TV demanding answers - multiple answers - about why he had to wait 18 hours to hear about the accident. Who cares? A "sinister cover-up" has to boil down to more than not giving David Gregory a press release. And, given that the media's spent the last two weeks telling the public why they don't need to see these Danish cartoons, it's hard to take them seriously as sudden converts to the public's right to know every detail, if only when it comes to minor hunting accidents.
From an anecdotal survey of my part of the North Country, most guys see the Cheney business as an excuse to tell their own hunting stories, mostly of the been-there-done-(or-nearly-done)-that variety. I'm not saying I'm entirely on board with the line that real men shoot each other all the time without whining like a bunch of ninnies about what's no more than a healthy American male bonding experience. But on balance this is one of those no-scandal scandals where Democrat/media hysteria only underlines their estrangement from the average red-state male.
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Wow, the media really has gone overboard onthe Cheney hunting accident story. Of course, some of the jokes are funny and will haunt Cheney for the rest of his life. But there is no big scandal on the media having to wait a day before they announced the story to the press. Michelle Malkin has a roundup of the links plus this video of Dana Milbank dressing up as Dick Cheney on Keith Olbermann's show. Ha, ha. What wit! Expose the Left has lots of links of the media going crazy of this one plus has already set up a Cafepress site with bumper stickers with a slogan that puts it all in perspective. Musing Minds has a partial transcript of the press briefing with poor Scott McClellan with the media going crazy and asking such questions as
I suspect that the great majority of the American people realize that this was an accident. They know that Cheney must feel awful about injuring his friend. But they also know that the American people didn't suffer by having to wait a day over the weekend to learn the story.
I wonder how many of the Washington press corps have ever been hunting in their lives. I never have. I have no idea how common it is to have such an accident. People were writing into the Corner all yesterday to say that it was common or not common. I think we're experiencing another divide between rural and urban cultures in America or at least those who enjoy hunting and those who wouldn't touch a gun for anything.
As Mark Steyn writes in to say
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Wow, the media really has gone overboard onthe Cheney hunting accident story. Of course, some of the jokes are funny and will haunt Cheney for the rest of his life. But there is no big scandal on the media having to wait a day before they announced the story to the press. Michelle Malkin has a roundup of the links plus this video of Dana Milbank dressing up as Dick Cheney on Keith Olbermann's show. Ha, ha. What wit! Expose the Left has lots of links of the media going crazy of this one plus has already set up a Cafepress site with bumper stickers with a slogan that puts it all in perspective. Musing Minds has a partial transcript of the press briefing with poor Scott McClellan with the media going crazy and asking such questions as
Is it proper for the Vice President to offer his resignation or has he offered his resignation?As Musing Minds says, the media is still "stuck on stupid."
Would this be much more serious if the man had died? Would that change the equation?
I suspect that the great majority of the American people realize that this was an accident. They know that Cheney must feel awful about injuring his friend. But they also know that the American people didn't suffer by having to wait a day over the weekend to learn the story.
I wonder how many of the Washington press corps have ever been hunting in their lives. I never have. I have no idea how common it is to have such an accident. People were writing into the Corner all yesterday to say that it was common or not common. I think we're experiencing another divide between rural and urban cultures in America or at least those who enjoy hunting and those who wouldn't touch a gun for anything.
As Mark Steyn writes in to say
But I can't see how the hunting thing is going to hurt Cheney or the GOP. For one thing, even when they've got the bones of a case, you can always rely on the Democrats and the media to over-react and, in so doing, come across as a lot of prigs. Already, NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, has been huffin' an' a-puffin' all over the TV demanding answers - multiple answers - about why he had to wait 18 hours to hear about the accident. Who cares? A "sinister cover-up" has to boil down to more than not giving David Gregory a press release. And, given that the media's spent the last two weeks telling the public why they don't need to see these Danish cartoons, it's hard to take them seriously as sudden converts to the public's right to know every detail, if only when it comes to minor hunting accidents.
From an anecdotal survey of my part of the North Country, most guys see the Cheney business as an excuse to tell their own hunting stories, mostly of the been-there-done-(or-nearly-done)-that variety. I'm not saying I'm entirely on board with the line that real men shoot each other all the time without whining like a bunch of ninnies about what's no more than a healthy American male bonding experience. But on balance this is one of those no-scandal scandals where Democrat/media hysteria only underlines their estrangement from the average red-state male.
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