Accidents Will Happen
As a determined enemy of this administration, I've been trying to find some way of using Dick Cheney's hunting accident as a means to tear down the Bush presidency - to say that it indicates how dangerous this presidential team is, or how little it cares about safety, or what have you.
Can't do it. It was an accident. I even know a man who was the victim of a similar accident some years ago.
The way the administration announced the thing, on the other hand, is just the opportunity I was looking for.
Get this - Cheney accidentally shoots another hunter on Saturday evening. (That the victim is a prominent Texas Republican and Bush donor is a nice irony.) No one apparently even discusses informing the public until Sunday morning, and no one actually tells the press until some 24 hours after the accident, when the owners of the ranch where the shooting took place talk about it to a newspaper in Corpus Christi.
Nothing necessarily untoward, so far, but then everyone reassures us about the reason for the delay. Why did it take so long? Because everyone in the vicinity was so concerned about getting the injured man to the hospital, and didn't want to waste energy discussing it with the press.
Let's think about this for a minute. According to MSNBC, the ranch where all of this happened covers about 50,000 acres and has been in the same family for over 100 years. Do you believe that Dick Cheney and the guy he shot were the only hunters on the premises this weekend? I didn't think so.
Do you believe there was no one on the site except those two hunters and a couple of family members? I didn't think so.
Do you believe that everyone present at a 50,000 acre ranch during hunting season, at a time when the Vice President of the United States and God knows how many Secret Service agents were there, had to drop whatever they were doing and personally take care of an injured man until they could get him to a doctor? I didn't think so.
So, to sum up, do you believe that it needed everyone on the premises to get this guy to the hospital? That no one could be spared to tell the American people about an accident involving the second highest officeholder in the Executive Branch? No? Me neither.
Call me a cynic, but I suspect that Cheney and his bunch spent the time planning how to spin the incident. And doing a pretty poor job at that.
Even if I'm wrong, though, I still think the Bush Administration machine blew this one up, and as usual it's spending all its energy trying to make itself look good.
Benshlomo says, Looks like Dick Cheney shot his buddy in the face and himself in the foot.
Can't do it. It was an accident. I even know a man who was the victim of a similar accident some years ago.
The way the administration announced the thing, on the other hand, is just the opportunity I was looking for.Get this - Cheney accidentally shoots another hunter on Saturday evening. (That the victim is a prominent Texas Republican and Bush donor is a nice irony.) No one apparently even discusses informing the public until Sunday morning, and no one actually tells the press until some 24 hours after the accident, when the owners of the ranch where the shooting took place talk about it to a newspaper in Corpus Christi.
Nothing necessarily untoward, so far, but then everyone reassures us about the reason for the delay. Why did it take so long? Because everyone in the vicinity was so concerned about getting the injured man to the hospital, and didn't want to waste energy discussing it with the press.
Let's think about this for a minute. According to MSNBC, the ranch where all of this happened covers about 50,000 acres and has been in the same family for over 100 years. Do you believe that Dick Cheney and the guy he shot were the only hunters on the premises this weekend? I didn't think so.
Do you believe there was no one on the site except those two hunters and a couple of family members? I didn't think so.
Do you believe that everyone present at a 50,000 acre ranch during hunting season, at a time when the Vice President of the United States and God knows how many Secret Service agents were there, had to drop whatever they were doing and personally take care of an injured man until they could get him to a doctor? I didn't think so.So, to sum up, do you believe that it needed everyone on the premises to get this guy to the hospital? That no one could be spared to tell the American people about an accident involving the second highest officeholder in the Executive Branch? No? Me neither.
Call me a cynic, but I suspect that Cheney and his bunch spent the time planning how to spin the incident. And doing a pretty poor job at that.
Even if I'm wrong, though, I still think the Bush Administration machine blew this one up, and as usual it's spending all its energy trying to make itself look good.
Benshlomo says, Looks like Dick Cheney shot his buddy in the face and himself in the foot.
posted by benshlomo at 3:32 PM
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