Cheney Accidentally Shoots Hunter in Texas

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Now, you're learnin'. I frame a point, you frame a counterpoint. I back up my argument, you back up yours. It's the way a debate is supposed to work.

    Well, I challenged the truth in your statement. I think it is clear that the press treated Clinton harshly when he screwed up and it is no different with Bush. All the press care about is a story. The incumbent is NEWS. It is not surprising that Bush is harshly treated right now. In time a democrat will return to office and she will be harshly treated by the press. :yelwink2:
     
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  2. TigerWins

    TigerWins Founding Member

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    You really believe that? You don't think the networks, CNN and MSNBC lean to the left and affects their reporting of the news?

    That would be like saying Fox News is really fair and balanced...
     
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  3. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    It's not?:eek:
     
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  4. Deceks7

    Deceks7 Founding Member

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    Following the old axiom, don't talk about religion or politics; I can see why people might discuss a hunting accident. This story takes political overtones only because people feel a need to analyze every event in whatever context that they are most familiar, or will benefit from. The White House press on the whole is no more qualified to report on a hunting accident than Bobby Fowler is to report on energy policy. To even discuss this event in moral or political overtones is a reach. Cheney is news; the farce here is the news is how Cheney reported the incident to the news. The Fourth Estate is truly full of self import.
     
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  5. LsuCraig

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    I agree. What the WH press corps is most angry about is that a Texas newspaper broke the story......they should have been notified first.

    The only thing is IMO, Cheney should have made a call to the WH to allow them to report it to the WH press pool. Then I think the whole thing is mute.
     
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  6. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    moot. :wink: :wink:
     
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  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    I think whichever way they lean, their business is NEWS. Anything a president does is newsworthy and will get reported. Every administration is scrutinized by the media. The Dems, too.
     
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  8. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    Well, that's why they didn't hear about it.:wink:
     
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  9. Deceks7

    Deceks7 Founding Member

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    This is the crux of the matter. Their business is news. They would have you believe anything they report is newsworthy. It is easier to defend this position than it is to discern what is truly newsworthy.

    The media cloaks itself in claims of being a purveyor of truth. While I do not discount the very important role that they play, I am always mindful of their arrogance. I almost wrecked one evening when I heard a "Journalist" claim, "Bowden better remember, we made Bobby Bowden and we can ruin him." Sports or politics, the media isn't always interested in the truth.
     
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  10. mesquite tiger

    mesquite tiger Diabolical Genius

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    we have a gansta in the White House...shooting lawyers and all that for sport...calling it hunting.

    Hamilton v. Burr has nothing on this epic tale of gun play!

    Big Dick Cheney should have to answer to a Texas Grand Jury on this one....he has publically admitted it was his fault. Don't think for a second that Joe Smith from Dallas without an upland stamp would got off scott free with shooting another hunter........corruption at its finest.

    Get the rope!
     
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