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Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Moonbat mediots meltdown over Quailgate: a recap
First, there was NBC’s David Gregory at yesterday’s WH press briefing. Video here. Transcript here:
[Gregory]: “Why was the White House relying on a Texas rancher to get the word of Cheney’s hunting accident out over the weekend, asked Gregory, accusing McClellan of “ducking and weaving.”
“David, hold on… the cameras aren’t on right now,” McClellan replied. “You can do this later.”
“Don’t accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,” the newsman said, his voice rising somewhat. “Don’t be a jerk to me personally when I’m asking you a serious question.”
“You don’t have to yell,” McClellan said.
“I will yell,” said Gregory, pointing a finger at McClellan at his dais. “If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don’t appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that’s wrong.”
“Calm down, Dave, calm down,” said McClellan, remaining calm throughout the exchange.
“I’ll calm down when I feel like calming down,” Gregory said. “You answer the question.’
“I have answered the question,” said McClellan, who had maintained that the vice president’s office was in charge of getting the information out and worked with the ranch owner to do that. “I’m sorry you’re getting all riled up about.”
“I am riled up,” Gregory said, “because you’re not answering the question,”
McClellan insisted he understood that reporters deserve an answer.
“I think you have legitimate questions to ask,” the press secretary said. “The vice president’s office was the one that took the lead to get this information out… I don’t know what else to tell you… That’s my answer.”
Here’s more video from the Maul McClellan-fest.
Next up, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank on Keith Olberman’s show, wearing a hunting vest and cap. So much for any pretense of objectivity on his part – not that I ever thought there was any before.
And lastly, we have DNC strategist and all around thinks-he’s-so-funny-man Paul Begala, sporting attire similar to Milbank’s while on CNN today, waxing indignant and talking about how he’d never let his son go hunting with Cheney – as if he would have considered it before. (Sidenote: I think I like California Conservative’s slightly Photoshopped version of that Begala pic 
).
In all seriousness, is there any wonder why there is so much distrust of the media these days? There shouldn’t be any wondering about it anymore, not after their manufactured outrage over the latest manufactured ’scandal.’
(Hat tip for many of the above links to Ed Driscoll)
More: TV producer and McLaughlin Group regular Lawrence O’Donnell speculates that Cheney was drunk (via Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters):
“How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then. Every lawyer I’ve talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be: Was Cheney drunk?”
[...]
“I have never gone hunting with ultra-rich Republicans on a Saturday afternoon, but I have seen them tailgating at Ivy League football games, so it’s hard for me to believe that any of their Saturday lunches are alcohol free.”
Dave Pierre, also at Newsbusters, makes a great point:
Think back to 1998. Imagine a female newspaper reporter (not an opinion columnist, but a reporter, mind you) showing up for a television interview dressed in a beret and looking like Monica Lewinsky. Or a male columnist wearing a Clinton wig and holding a cigar. It never would have happened, because these people would have lost their jobs. Their employer’s credibility would have been shot.
Yep.
To update, here’s the latest on the condition of Mr. Whittington, the man the Vice President accidentally shot:
WASHINGTON – Despite the heart problem of the man wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney, doctors say removing the shotgun pellet from his chest probably won’t be necessary — and digging it out could do more harm than good.
It’s not unusual to live with shrapnel or other foreign objects in the body, even the heart, and specialists said it’s likely the pellet will scar over rapidly without causing further problems for Texas lawyer Harry Whittington.
Hospital officials in Corpus Christi announced Tuesday that Whittington had suffered a “minor heart attack” and was returned to the intensive care unit.
It wasn’t a traditional heart attack — no artery was blocked. In fact, the 78-year-old Whittington’s doctors called his arteries healthy, and he felt no pain or other symptoms.
What apparently happened: Doctors noticed an irregular heartbeat Tuesday morning and took Whittington in for an exam called a cardiac catheterization, threading a wire up from the groin to see an image of exactly what was going on inside his heart.
One of the pellets from the 28-guage shotgun that Cheney had fired had migrated to the heart, either touching or embedding into the heart muscle near its top chambers, called the atria. That irritated those chambers to cause the irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
But doctors also spotted inflammation — which always occurs when something foreign invades the body — that was causing a temporary block in blood flow, by touching or pushing the heart, explained Dr. David Blanchard, chief of emergency care at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.
That’s what he termed a “silent heart attack.”
Here’s to hoping for a speedy recovery for Mr. Whittington.
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This is a blessed event. Only God is able to bestow so much irony on any one event. Let’s hope the death of the victim is not part of God’s irony. Peace
C’mon with the Monica comparisons. We are country based on puratinical values, definetely not non-violent ones. Affairs and sex have always been taboo discussion points, so I don’t think that we would have Kate O’Beirne with a beret. But we celebrate violence in this country, so as the story was relayed that he was alright, the concept of shooting a man in the face reaches across every demographic. Even a lot of Republicans found the whole thing funny, look at quotes from Jeb and GW today.
As far as I’m concerned, this has nothing to do with jokes and everything to do with the media having a complete meltdown over this story.
BTW, where have you been? Affairs and sex are most defintely not taboo topics in this country.
“”The vice president’s office was the one that took the lead to get this information out”
What a liar.
Some think this is another “gotcha” because they need too. Actually the American public already thinks the White house gaggle is a bunch of nitwits. We’ll have to wait till the polls come out to see if this is a “blessed event”. I think I’ll be adding this as #18 to the moonbat BDS marathon….
- Bang
Not to put too fine a point on it, David Gregory is a vindictive moron. He’s been casting about for a way to take revenge on the Bush Administration ever since President Bush humiliated him in public.
That’s the press corps for you.
Tommy wrote the obvious, “VP Cheney screwed up
Yes. Cheney screwed up. I screw up. You screw up. The media screws up.
I’m not sure which statement of yours has you rolling on the floor laughing. Can you clarify?
The “beauty part” is that while Cheney may be concerned about Harry Whittington’s recovery, he doesn’t give a fig about the media. He’s never been one to toady to the MSM. He’s not running for office in 2008 and he’s basically giving the MSM the middle finger. They can rant and rave all they want and he simply doesn’t care, any more than he does about what people say about him on a blog or in a blog’s comments section. The way he’s “handling” (or “mishandling”) this situation is typical of the way he’s always related to the media. Good or bad, he’s certainly consistent.
Did you watch the 20 minute video on “Expose the Left”? What is a manufactured scandal (what ST is referring to – not reefer), is the media’s seeming assertion that the WH press corp should’ve been notified quicker and FIRST. So they didn’t get notified first… They were genuinely upset and making a stink and making WILD assertions. That IS the making of a scandal. That is how the press operates.
Nobody is referring to Cheney as not screwing up.
You understand now or do you still think people are referring to Cheney as not screwing up?
Kevin wrote, “They can rant and rave all they want and he simply doesn’t care, any more than he does about what people say about him on a blog or in a blog’s comments section. The way he’s “handling” (or “mishandling”) this situation is typical of the way he’s always related to the media. Good or bad, he’s certainly consistent.
I agree. It certainly is how a large segment of people handle the media. After someone dies and the media are all over their lawn and calling and ringing their doorbell and the mom and dad look to these crazy “objective” journalists as wack. If I was ever in a position, I would treat the media with an extended arm and open hand also.
And for all this, the media still misses the real story. Heck, Smoking Gun had the police report, and it was there in black and white but the media is more concerned about getting the VP than actually reporting the story (other than Whittingham’s health status).
It isn’t a crime to not go to the White House media first with a story.
However, it is borderline criminal that the local law enforcement and Secret Service couldn’t communicate by radio when the incident happened and instead needed to rely on regular telephones because the communications systems could work together.
The VP messed up in not being more forthcoming on the situation, but someone really ought to look into why the USSS couldn’t communicate with local law enforcement over their radios. How much time was lost in the process?
Instead, the media latches onto how they were snubbed by the VP’s office on getting the story first.
What do we know? Cheney and Whittington (both men) and Ambassador Pamela Willeford and Ms. Armstrong, the ranch owner,(both women). Is this a pair of hunters or a drunken sex party that went wrong when the guns came out? Peace
Thanks, steve, for once again illustrating that there is nothing too idiotic, distasteful, dishonest, or shameful for the Left to use in an attempt to besmirtch the name of an enemy. You know, the usual enemies of the Left, responsible adults who get things done instead of sitting around whining and complaining.
Get things done: Like set the Middle East on fire or double the National Debt in 4 years or increase military spending by 45% on useless weapons systems or ship jobs overseas thru NAFTA or shink the standard of living by 1.2% in the last 2 years or rob the treasury of hundreds of billions in revenues so the wealthist 1% af Americans can have a tax cut or add 4 million more people to the group of Americans without health care and on and on and on. PLEASE, Republicans, stop doing things before we have no country left. Peace
Looking at poor ol’Scott McClellan, it’s apparent that he just isn’t up to the task of taking on the vicious animals that the Washington press corps have become. They combine the moonbat sensibilities evidenced by steve with the pack animal viciousness of rabid hyeenas.
I do have a solution though:
Ann Coulter for White House Press Secretary!
Now that’s something I’d pay good money to watch.
BTW steve, next time you feel the need to pass that big a wet juicy hersey squirt, please have the common courtesy to light a match eh? Man, I have never see that many ill considered, dishonest, knee jerk, inaccurate moonbat talking points direct from the DU in one post in ages. That has to be a personal “best” for you!
But you can still sleep peacefully and safely at night, as you know that men and women who are more articulate and serious than you are out there making sure the nation is safe and holding our enemies at bay. You don’t deserve the protection, and you don’t appreciate it, but you’re taken care of nonetheless. And, deep down below your sociopathy, I think you are fully aware of just how useless you and your fellow traverlers are. That’s why you strike out at your betters, they make you aware of what a failure you are, and it’s easier to denigrate them than to live up to your responsibilities.