Cheney did not cooperate with the police when they first came to ask him questions about the accidental shooting. He was not forthcoming with the President of the United States about the shooting. The sheriff, a public employee, is refusing – at least five days after the shooting – to address questions from the media involving an accident on a local ranch. To the best of my knowledge, statements from the witnesses have not been released.
All of that is abnormal for a private citizen or a public servant in the position of Vice President of the United States. It does smack of incredible power and of someone who believes he is above the law. So far, I have seen nothing to contradict him.
Uh, you’re unique in that you don’t know the difference between a rifle and a shotgun with #7.5 bird shot (at 90 feet) choked for a wide spread. You’ve grossly misrepresented the situation. While I’m sure you’re a genius who’s never had a mishap in your entire life the rest of us are subject to the occasional accident.
The report is on file and available to the public. If you’re saying I have the public right to grill a policeman then I put me first in line to talk to the officer who dealt with Senator Kennedy’s accident. Of course the only thing that happened there is that someone was left to die after the Senator left the scene of the accident. Perspective’s a bitch.
The report is on file and available to the public. If you’re saying I have the public right to grill a policeman then put me first in line to talk to the officer who dealt with Senator Kennedy’s accident. Of course the only thing that happened there is that someone was left to die after the Senator left the scene of the accident. Perspective’s a bitch.
Another prime example of my newly formed Chappaquiddick corollary to Godwin’s law, which posits that the longer a Republican comes under fire for whatever reason, the probability of a comparison to Chappaquiddick approaches 1.
An addendum to the Chappaquiddick Corollary might be: The farther back in time you have to go to find a tu quoque, the more ridiculous it appears as an “argument”. The exact time of the rebound point is a subject of some disagreement, but is much sooner than 37 years.
No, no, no - see, the further you go back in time, the more clear it is that your purpose is simply to provide some dispassionate historical context to demonstrate how media coverage has changed over time ::eyelash-batting-smiley:: . It isn’t at all to make partisan political points.
None. The incident was reported to the Kennedy County Sheriff’s Office within 15 minutes of its happening. Their investigation clearly shows the whole thing was an accident.
I don’t care that they didn’t provide any information for the entire planet that he was involved with a hunting accident. Why should we care? How is that helping anything? The press puts such a spin on anything to make news. I agree it’s news but definitely doesn’t warrant primetime for many days and a White House press conference, etc. etc.
So, was this actually a “canned” hunt? In his interview yesterday, Cheney said he was hunting wild quail. It was kind of a quick aside, so you had to be listenting closely to hear it, but he definitely said they were wild.
I define love in the context of Christian theology as “the facilitation of goodness”. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of the New Testament says, “love seeks opportunity to do good to all men”. Why you view that as a grotesque stretch is an unfathomable mystery.
My example was a direct comparison to a politician who was involved in an accident which ended poorly. Your statistical correlations apply equally to Democrats who look the other way when their candidate negligently kills someone. But since those documents are sealed, that’s water under a bridge. I’m guessing Ted’s wife named the family dog as a reminder.
The hunting accident isn’t the story, the coverage is the story. When news makers are more concerned about Cheney’s response to them verses his response to the person who was injured then they have lost site of what they’re reporting on.
duly noted. A big Woody Allen apology to President Clinton for suggesting that he cheated on his 20 year marriage with someone young enough to be his daughter when clearly he had a track recorded for using older women.
Did anybody see the montage of Fox commentators all dismissing the Cheney story as “not a news story” last night on the Daily Show? It was HILARIOUS. Talk about a Talking Point! It’s funny to think that Republican sympathizers on the Dope got the memo before Fox did.
I disagree. No matter how bad things turn out to be (for the record, I don’t think they 'll turn out to be worse than they are currently), this shooting does not reflect on his duties as a public official. He should no more be impeached for this–even if it turns out he lied to an officer of the law about some aspect of it (see above parenthetical comment)–than Clinton should have been impeached for his own stupidities in his own nonpublic life.