O'Reilly: "Dick Cheney's quail hunting accident affects no one"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Last night I had to make a decision which story was more important, Vice President Cheney failing to disclose a shooting accident in a timely matter or Vice President Gore in Saudi Arabia accusing the USA of abusing Arabs on American soil. Call me crazy, but I chose the Gore story, believing that his explosive accusations in the Middle East could hurt America on the war on terror. The Cheney story was unfortunate for the man accidentally shot, but who else was affected? No one.

Well, today, in Washington Post online Howard Kurtz wrote, "I was looking forward to Bill O'Reilly's take on the Cheney matter but his lead was, `Did Al Gore go too far?' In fairness, Gore charged in Saudi Arabia that Arabs in the U.S. were being mistreated and would not provide specifics to "The Factor." O'Reilly did give the veep's misfire a couple of seconds as `The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day.'" That is correct. I saw the incident as ridiculous. Mr. Cheney has a well-known press phobia. Why is it surprising to anyone that he would delay announcement of the accident so it missed the Sunday papers and chat shows? Now, if the story had any implications other than the poor man getting hurt, and today unfortunatelyHarry Whittington did suffer a heart attack, we are monitoring that situation, I would have been all over Cheney. But, again, the vice president's hunting accident affects no one. Means nothing. And his reluctance to brief the press about it is predictable.

Of course, Cheney should have known that the anti-Bush press would make a big deal out of this and the vice president has given his enemies more ammunition, pardon the pun. So once again Dick Cheney's secret style hurts him. But some of our competitors are spending hours talking about this Cheney misfire which seems absurd and today their anger seemed to be growing.

So what say you? We have a brand new billoreilly.com poll question. Which is more important, Al Gore accusing the USA of mistreating Arabs on U.S. soil or Dick Cheney delaying the accident announcement? Which story is more important? We have a little category. Gore or Cheney. And you click it off on billoreilly.com. Now I think I know how the poll is going to turn out but I want to see the plurality. By the way, the Al Gore speech in Saudi Arabia was almost totally ignored by the elite media. Says a lot. That's "The Memo."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184933,00.html

[TomInTib]

1. "affects no one"- How about Whittington? nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. That was "unfortunate," according to Bill.

:silly:

[physioex]

7. Wonder how his Repuke Family is going to take all this?? EOM

[Che_Nuevara]

3. "Mr. Cheney has a well-known press phobia."

He's the f'cking VP. He can't be that camera shy.

[Left Is Write]

6. No kidding.

Someone with a press phobia has no business in high-level politics.

[vptpt]

12. I think "press phobia" just means

I'm-afraid-the-people-will-find-out-what-a-miserable-piece-of-shit-I-am phobia.

[physioex]

4. Ohhhh Damn...

Look at the way they eat their own. Whitey was a big time repuke supporter before the incident, now he is just a liability...

[Left Is Write]

5. What "anti-Bush press"? What "elite media"?

O'Leilly invites us to "call him crazy." Consider it done.

[vptpt]

15. Who needs an invitation?

I've been calling him crazy all along.

[panader0]

8. What if Whittington dies?

Is it manslaughter? I mean, the man is 78. That's a long life for most. Now with many birdshots "migrating" in his body, he could go soon.

[TomInTib]

10. Under Texas law it would be...

criminally negligent homicide.

[Scout1071]

9. And Bill's blow job did? Fucking despicable hypocrite. nt

[0007]

18. Give 'em hell Scout1071 - I'd go as far as to say the BJ may

have been an accident.

[Sparkly]

24. I was just gonna say that.

Exactly!!! :thumbsup:

[thebigidea]

11. "on Arab soil."

what a fucking clown. What, are they savages who somehow can't hear what he says elsewhere? They got internet and satellite tv, Bill. I'm really tired of this right wing bullshit where apparently you have to be an ambassador for the Bush administration if you give a talk any where overseas.

[saracat]

13. So O'reilly also thinks that Gore is more influential than Cheney? How odd

But a sitting VP shooting someone is not only news, it is history . But I guess Bill doesn't know about Aaron Burr. Pity.

[Cocoa]

14. what about the children?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Spin cycle

collateral damage

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[Laelth]

23. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

-Laelth

[applegrove]

19. Kinda like Gay Marriage?

[Lorien]

29. And Clinton's blowjob

which should have only affected him, Monica, and Hillary.

[Radical Activist]

20. They changed the question

Now its Cheney Fudd v. The new Fed Chairman.

Maybe they weren't getting the results they wanted.

[doc03]

21. The shooting of Monica Lewinsky was an unfortunate event but

who else was affected. HMMMMM!

[Laelth]

22. What a POS O'Lielly is.

And I suppose Monica's dress affected the entire world community.

F'ing hypocrite. :puke:

-Laelth

[Rocknrule]

25. Whereas Penisgate affected the safety of the whole world

It must be nice to have special privileges just because of your political affiliation

[MrBenchley]

26. And so the rest of the world will just stop talking about it

so great is our admiration of the Falafel King, and all....(snicker)

[mitchum]

27. How pathetic is a man who pretends to be what Pat Buchanan really is?

Buchanan REALLY is a quick-witted tough Catholic Mick. Crazy?....most likely
But Morton Downey Junior Junior is a bloviating windbag who would go down with one punch.

[HuffleClaw]

28. if that guy had DIED

o'really would have dismissed it by saying he was an old coot anyways.

[jab105]

30. Could have said the same damn thing about Lewinsky...

blah!

[threadkillaz]

31. Uh, his family for sure.

And how many people did Scott Peterson affect?

Loooooossseeerrr!