Enough with the Cheney gunshot story already. We get it. He was out hunting. He accidentally shot someone. It was a horrible accident, and I'm sure Cheney feels worse about shooting a friend or colleague than you could ever make him feel in a thousand acerbic posts. This is not really a big story, and is in fact deflecting attention away (yet again - how easily you get distracted) from the things you really need to be talking about in a rational way. Please get back to work.
Cheers: MyDD and Think Progress who, as of 9:30 this morning, had let the story scroll off of their home pages (if indeed it ever made it in the first place). Update (11:41 am): Mega-uber cheers to Benquirer for this note, which sums it up better than I ever could.
Jeers: Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, AMERICAblog, Eschaton. Please, for the love of Pete, let it go already. Do you really think that there's something nefarious going on here? You do realize that hunting accidents happen all the time, as do accidents of all varieties, right? And you do realize that glomming on to this story as if there were something significant here makes you look foolish, right? Knock it off. [Raw Story would have been included here, because they are also quite hysterical about this story, but they did dig up this photo, which is funny and priceless.]
Monday, February 13, 2006
Note to the Democratic blogosphere
Posted by CheckyPantz at 09:52
Labels: I wrote this, politics
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Personally, I like this image better, but still - yeah.
Well, what is really more the story is that the story broke well after it should have and the story broke from the owner of the ranch and NOT the White House.
It is also more a story in the sense that it contributes to the (negative) character analysis of this administration. I.E. than can't ever come out and admit that they EVER did ANYTHING wrong at all. They NEVER make little mistakes. Just Katrina and Iraq sized ones.
No. I reject that out of hand. Sorry. Even if the media are trying to establish this as some sort of pattern of undue secrecy coming from the VP's office, it is still not the primary story.
As it stands, this story is only slightly above the Prez-chokes-on-pretzel story in terms of caliber and importance to the country. The WH punted to the veep's publicity office to disclose the story (and McClellan said yesterday that he would have handled it differently than Cheney's publicist did), and the VP's office punted to the property owner.
It's just not a big deal in my book. When the press should be looking into ACTUAL malfeasance and incompetence wrought by this administration (Katrina, Abramoff, Delay), this shooting story is noise that is unnecessarily cluttering the information conduits. And it makes the Democrats look foolish to continue harping on it.
If I were a cynical person, I'd say that the Rovian machine were actually the ones behind pumping up this story, because it is such a non-starter. But I'm sure he's thrilled that he didn't have to lift a finger to pull the press so massively off-track.
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