Dick Chenay Shooting Rant

This is my rant about Vice President Dick Chenay being the first VP since that nations founding to shoot a man while in office. Not so much about the shooting itself but the continued cluster-fuck in handling by the administration and others. What specially gals me is it didn't need to be handled this way. Shit happens. Especially with incompentent "hunters". It would have been a joke on the late night shows for a few days and gone away.

I have yet to hear an explanation for the 22 hour news blackout. There is simply no excuse for it. None. I don't care what was going on. If Cheney had time to go have dinner after the shooting, he had time to get his people working on getting the news out. What he was doing was hiding facts plain and simple while waiting for the guy to die or not. Can't admit that, but basically that is the only thing that explains the wait.

Finally, again no explanation for the gall of Cheney's buds blaming the victim. They repeatedly blamed everyone but the guy that pulls the trigger. Finally Cheney admits he was a fault and even then the ego-maniac felt a need to add a "but..." invalidating everything.

Long story short, this shooting summarizes everything that is wrong with the this administration. Even in cases that are clear cut "shit happens" they feel a need to hide the truth, to dissemble, to avoid responsibility and blame others for their own actions. Its pathetic. Its cowardly. Its un-presidential and stinks of bad leadership.

In addition to this, we have Fox News. They get the interview with Chenay rather then a press conference. Understood, they want a softball interview and Bret Hume is the man to go to for that. He and the job description of "journalist" don't belong together and haven't for years. What is reprehensible is are supposed to report the news and the truth and here they are caught actually hiding information. They withheld pertinient facts for an interview, not only cutting it from the broadcast but then cutting it from the website transcript of the interview. The White House transcript, that describes Chenay knocking a few back a few hours before the shooting, is more complete. Its that isn't gross negligance, I don't know is.