Monday, February 13, 2006

Feeding Frenzy at White House

Today during the daily White House breifing press secretary Scott McClellan was grilled by the White House Press people who seemed furious that they were not the first to be told about Vice President Cheney's little mishap while quail hunting. The accident appearently happened on Saturday, but the story did not break nationally until sometime Sunday afternoon. The woman who actually broke the story actually owns the ranch where this all took place and she reportedly told a local newspaper in Corpus Christi, Texas, who then broke the story.
Once again we should expect the media to blow this out of proportion just to make Cheney and then Bush (who had absolutely nothing to do with this at all) look stupid. I admit, Cheney's press people should have released a statement soon after the incident took place, however, and McClellan said this today, the first priority was to make sure the man that was shot was ok. It was hilarious to watch the circus today when the reporters went crazy and made a big ta-doo over this thing. One reporter even asked something along the lines of "if the man shot would have died, would this be a more serious situation?" For a response to that the word DUH comes to mind. I just hope this whole thing blows over because as long as the poor man who got clipped is ok, that really is all that matters. Im just waiting for the onslaught of jokes and wise cracks about the VP starting tonight from Leno, Letterman, Corbert, Jon Steward, etc...it should be veeeeeery interesting.

-Brad

1 comment:

Scott said...

It strikes me that perhaps stricter gun control laws might have prohibited such a needless "accident" from happening. (Haha, I'm being sarcastic, of course--but but seriously...) Recreational hunting...isn't that an inherant contradiction? Killing for fun? It makes as much sense to me as Bill Gates knocking off a 7/11 because his slurpy machine at home ran out of mixer. If there is ever a guy that doesn't need a gun, it's either the president or vice-president of the United States. I guess those vicious quail had it coming, though. John Kerry is guilty of it as well. He hunts. John Kerry (well, his wife anyways) and Dick Cheney combined are probably worth close to half a billion dollars (or is it more...i don't know), and they think hunting is a cool thing to do. I don't know, it passes the time or something like that. It relaxes them--but it sure isn't putting food on their table. They're both morons.