Does anyone else think...

[annabelle87]

that the media is going a bit overboard with the Cheney thing?

Thanks to MSN you can now see the almighty timeline of events, just click [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11335136/"]here[/url]!!! Wow it's so exciting...made my day

The top of the page reads "The Cheney shooting: A CHRONOLOGY "

Is it wrong that I find it all funny?

It's a horrible thing that the man got hurt...but the level of attention this has been getting is kinda... I guess it's a good laugh for the liberals, but it's getting old!

[avemaria40]

yeah, they'll do anything to discredit the Bush Administration

[TrinityAddiction]

A chronology? Good grief...

Surely they have something better to do with their time?

[photosynthesis]

well heck, the Vice President of the United States shot a guy. I'd say that's major news. Granted it's an accident, and hunting is a very dangerous sport, but still...the Vice President could have killed the man. That's some pretty serious stuff.

Now, if he choked on a pretzel then that's a different story.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

I never did learn how to think.

[Era Might]

I thought it was pretty stupid that the Boston Globe put the story front page.

God knows what brave soldier died today in Iraq, and we're obsessed with a hunting accident. Dead soldiers should be on the front page.

[track2004]

Well there's the fact that he shot a guy. Which is kinda a big deal. He was the first VP to shot a guy since Hamilyton. "Vice President Johnsonville brat Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird." - Jon Stewart on the Daily Show

Also the government decided that they really didn't need to tell anyone which is also a big deal. Besides the whole Iraq, War on Terror, Katrina nonsense, they are just covering up everything now. They are trying to save face and pretend that they do no wrong, but the messed up (a few times if you ask me).

And it was the worst PR decision this month. Followed by Mike Davis, the coach of IU basketball basically asking to be fired and saying his authority is underminded by 30,000 20-year-olds and he can't do his job. (I go to IU.)

Yeah our government is honest with us. Yeah. I trust them. Totally.

I'm a republican too... which is, well, sad for this administration.

[Fidei Defensor]

What if the guy who was shot didnt want them to tell anyone right away?

[track2004]

Usually when someone shoots someone else, even if it was an accident, and the someone else has to go to the hospital, it is the kind of thing that has to be public information. The police should have made some incident report. Shootings don't really go unnoticed.

[Tink]

[quote name='track2004' date='Feb 15 2006, 04:27 PM']Well there's the fact that he shot a guy.  Which is kinda  a big deal.  He was the first VP to shot a guy since Hamilyton.  "Vice President Johnsonville brat Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird." - Jon Stewart on the Daily Show

Also the government decided that they really didn't need to tell anyone which is also a big deal.  Besides the whole Iraq, War on Terror, Katrina nonsense, they are just covering up everything now.  They are trying to save face and pretend that they do no wrong, but the messed up (a few times if you ask me). 

And it was the worst PR decision this month.  Followed by Mike Davis, the coach of IU basketball basically asking to be fired and saying his authority is underminded by 30,000 20-year-olds and he can't do his job.  (I go to IU.)

Yeah our government is honest with us.  Yeah.  I trust them.  Totally.

I'm a republican too... which is, well, sad for this administration.
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I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. As you pointed out, the drastic difference between Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr's duel (didn't he die from that? Yeah...) is the fact that it was over serious issues of honor, integrity, etc. This was a quail hunt. Also, the duel was a deliberate attempt to bring harm to another- the latter was a hunting accident.

I don't really favor one party over the other except in moral issues, so I'm not biased on this. The government isn't trying to 'save face' or pretend anything, they're merely handling the situation as it should be handled- without melodramatics and exaggeration. Sure, it is worth mentioning in the news, but it is certainly not grounds for a full-fledged attack on the Bush administration as you and so many others have turned it into.

I find it funny that the media is poised and ready to lynch Cheney for a recreational accident, yet it makes nothing of the fact that Al Gore is spreading lies about our country to foreign leaders. Odd, I'd say.

My conclusion? People need to learn to shut up and stop looking for trouble! [/color]

Edited February 16, 2006 by Tink

[Church Punk]

wait a week and they will forget it ever happened.

Its not big deal... Lots of presidents and vice presidents have shot people. Even presidential candidates.

[track2004]

I don't like when my government covers stuff up, intentionally to boot. If you're ok with the cover up, fine. If they hadn't covered it up and dealth with it like adults then it would have blown over in a week, now it is just making them look like kids who didn't want to tell Mom that they broke the lamp.

[philothea]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Feb 15 2006, 04:03 PM']I never did learn how to think.
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That was my response too!

No thinking going on here...

However, if I was thinking, I'd think all the jokes about a guy (VP or not, and I do NOT like Cheney) accidentally shooting another guy, were tacky. Though it wouldn't hurt to point out that hunting is dangerous.

[Fidei Defensor]

I really am not bothered by I. It was an accident, and he didnt have to tell anyone right away. Like he said, he was more concerned about making sure he was all right and getting treatment rather than running right to the press. There is nothing that says he has to tell the press anything.

I get very annoyed when people act as if they have this right to know every little thing that is going on in the U.S., and then when they dont find out about something as soon as it happens, then they act as if it was a coverup.

[Laurentina1975]

It's just totally getting old.
If it were your normal John or Jane Smith, it wouldn't be such a big ole deal.
Sheesh.