Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The worst day of my life, says Cheney
Democrats assailed Mr Cheney for what they characterised as the administration’s desire to restrict the flow of news. Senate minority leader Harry Reid noted that Mr Cheney had not given a press conference since 2002, while House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said: “We have to break this habit of the administration of closed government …”
Are they serious?
The guy shot someone and he is being critised for his silence?
Its a personal matter?
WTF has it got to do with Joe Public?
And why should it be his concern to wait more than 20hours before releasing the news… Erm.. hello, he accidently shot someone, erm, hello again, he shot an innocent person !!
Jesus, what are they up to over there… Give the man a break…
Now if he had shot Saddam, or found the Evil one and shot him, now that would have been news. If he had shot Bush, that would have been news. But they guy was out on his own persoanl recreation time and shot someone in an accident…
Do you not think he was a bit shocked too?
Why the hell should he make it top news..
“Hi, is this CNN? Yeah, this is Dick Cheyney, I just wanted to let you know that I accidently shot someone today whilst out hunting and nearly killed the poor guy… Yeah, I am ok, I never got shot… No, he’s not dead, had a heart attack because of the lead shot in his heart, Nothing serious… Just thought I would let you know…”
Assholes…
Anyone slightly human would be in shock, and would have more important things on their mind…
Anyway, it was only a damn lawyer… Most of the time and 99% of the population want to do this anyway… Give the guy a break, nah, give him a goddamn medal… He’s just done what you all would want to do anyway…
Apologies to the family of Mr Whittington for the Lawyer joke…
What the hell is the world coming too. If news is that important, its about time we got our arses out of our chairs and started doing something constructive in this world.
Let us start by giving people their privacy back. The democrats will be calling for live web cams, audio broadcasts of every US citizen before too long, once they have finished with anyone considered to be in the public eye and ‘worthy’ of news…
If Nancy Pelosi accidently ran over her Nanny, do you think she would go running to the press screaming, ‘Hey people, I just nearly killed my Nanny… Its great primetime news, let me tell you all about it first, then I will get over my shock”.
erm… perhaps you overlook that this bloke is 2nd in command of the biggest nuclear force on the planet… If he’s got a dodgy trigger finger, perhaps it is news 😉
hehehe…leave it to InfoSec guys to get it right. 😉
One nit to pick…if Nancy Pelosi ran over her nanny she wouldn’t report it. Couldn’t let it out that her Nanny is an illegal. 😉
LOL – Funnily enough, I was thinking that when I wrote it.