Hi Fabs, the problem with this internet stuff is it's hard to get a point across sometimes so bear with me. Not sure how you're getting that I'm only upset about the media...
I do think they (media) need to be notified in a timely manner but not in the way this situation has been handled.
More importantly, I want to know why there were delays in reporting it to the police and and why the person involved was allowed to call the shots (bad pun
). I won't go through more of that because it's all in my posts.
Do you agree that someone other than Cheney should have been making the decisions? Would you allow a client to make decions in court? Bush deferred to Cheney which I believe was a mistake.
To say it again, Cheney should not have been as involved in the decision-making as he was.
Now if an Aide did the deed and Cheney was there, he had the impartiality as a 3rd party to make decisions.
The timeline I refer to is in one of my posts that has some of the text in red
From my previous posts:
7:50 p.m.: The head of the Secret Service office in McAllen, Texas, calls the Kenedy County sheriff to report the accident. The sheriff asks to speak to Cheney, and they schedule an interview for 9 a.m. Sunday. At the White House, presidential aide Karl Rove tells Bush that Cheney was the shooter, after talking to ranch owner Katharine Armstrong.
Almost an hour and a half later the sheriff is called??? What?
If this injured hunter was transported by EMS to the hospital, why wasn't LE sent to the scene because guns were involved? Why didn't the hospital notify LE that a patient came in with gunshot wounds. that's all pretty standard around these parts.
Something else to add, why did LE wait till morning to interview him? A regular citizen wouldn't have been given that luxury.
Now I don't subscribe to any of the kook theorys flying around that he was "drunk" or there was a woman involved. Blah, blah blah, which allegations at this time are pretty ridiculous.
you asked: Let me ask this question, would it be such a big deal if it was anybody other than the Vice President that shot somebody.
I responded: Absolutely it would be. As I stated in my last post,
if you or I waited to report a shooting, we'd be in some serious trouble.
edited to add:
Cheney hunting accident seen as a P.R. disaster
Quote:
Republican consultant Rich Galen, who was a senior adviser to both Newt Gingrich and former Vice President Dan Quayle, suggested that Cheney comes from an old school of thought dating to his days in the House in the 1980s “that you don’t respond to an attack from your opponent that raises the level of the discussion.”
“That entire doctrine has come and gone. Now the doctrine is you respond instantaneously, and where possible with a strong counterattack. A lot of that is because of the Internet, a lot of that is because of cable TV news,” Galen said.
On Cheney’s decision to leave it up to the ranch owner to tell a local paper the next day what happened, Galen said, “I’d use this as an example of how you can overthink a problem.”
“If you could rewind the clock, a better idea would be to get the vice president’s communications operations together with the president’s communications staff, and get something out, something on the wire, right away."
...As to Bush’s apparent willingness to let Cheney deal with the shooting problem himself, “There has never in American history been a White House where the president said to the vice president, ‘You handle the press,”’ Davis said.
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Btw, if I make another post in this thread this dead horse just might come back to life so I better not.
Or, I've always been told to never debate an attorney which if I keep trying, we might beat the manbeef thread for total number of posts...
