Dick Cheney

If there was ever any question that the mainstream media caters to the left, this accidental shooting by Cheney makes it even more blatantly obvious. Cheney did exactly the right thing by waiting to make any kind of national statement.

Give me a break. The man has just shot a very close friend in the face in a hunting accident. Can you fault him for not immediately announcing all the details to the national press? Does this affect his job as our VP in anyway? Only as it would any normal person like you or I... time, trauma, sadness, guilt, etc.

Should it affect us other than with concern and prayers for the man and his family? No. Unfortunately, we've all been subjected to the media stories of 'cover ups', 'veil[s] of secrecy', etc. Hours and hours and hours of media coverage. Makes me want to vomit.

The man showed a lot of wisdom in his interview with FOX...

Before Wednesday's interview, the vice president's office issued two brief written statements acknowledging the shooting on Monday and Tuesday. Cheney said he and Armstrong agreed to let her take the lead.

"I thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knows and understands hunting," Cheney said. "Then it would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the Web site, which is the way it went out. I thought that was the right call. I still do."

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"Katharine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go make the announcement. ... First of all, she was an eyewitness, she'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the immediate past head of the [Texas Parks and Wildlife Department], the game control commission in the state of Texas," Cheney said.

Later, Cheney said of Armstrong, "I don't know who you could get better as the basic source for the story than the witness who saw the whole thing."

And he finally hits the nail on the head...

He later added: "I had a bit of the feeling that the press corps was upset because, to some extent, it was about them — they didn't like the idea that we called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of The New York Times."