didn't Scott M. KNOW about MR. W's turn for worse BEFORE pres conf?

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posted in LBN

NYT-Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs

By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: February 15, 2006

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney, it seemed to signal an effort to defuse the accidental-shooting story with a laugh.

But by midday, it was clear that the staffs of the president and the vice president had failed to communicate. Just after arriving at work around 7:45 a.m., Mr. Cheney learned that the man he had shot, Harry M. Whittington, was about to undergo a medical procedure on his heart because his injuries were more serious than earlier believed, Mr. Cheney's spokeswoman said.

No one in Mr. Cheney's office passed the word to Mr. McClellan, senior officials at the White House said, adding that the press secretary would never have joked about the shooting accident if he had known about the turn of events involving Mr. Whittington.

It was the latest example of the degree to which Mr. Cheney's habit of living in his own world in the Bush White House — surrounded by his own staff, relying on his own instincts, saying as little as possible — had backfired since the accident in Texas on Saturday. Mr. Cheney's staff members have kept their comments to chronological details and to repeating the vice president's written statements.

read more at link


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/politics/15veep.html?...

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1. wasn't there a few threads on DU today saying Scott knew?

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2. k

[txindy]

4. IIRC, yes. CNN claimed that he knew.

:shrug:

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8. seems like NYT's is apologizing for Scott.

[havocmom]

3. When was the press confrence?

Then go through this mornings posts here and look at times. Seems there were posts about the heart attack fairly early. If we had it, Snotty Scotty had it.

Would help you search, but am about to fall over myself. Very tired and goofy this evening.

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6. thanks, i will try to find them. but sure looks like a fishy story in NYT

[DearAbby]

7. I dont remember seeing news pop up here until after the News confer.

But I would assume that they would know about it before the media did...


:popcorn: getting real curious

[Sydnie]

9. If you saw the press conference

the dr they interviewed said several times, very strongly, that they were in contact with the WH and that WH doctors were "assisting them" there in Corpus.

How could Scotty not know?

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11. then they NYT story is a bunch of balony.

[DearAbby]

14. He claiming he has answered all questions concerning this story and it

is time to move on.

[Sydnie]

15. Watching the Countdown re-run - They say without question that

Scott admitted, shortly after the Press Conference, that he knew but didn't think it was his place to say anything.

[DearAbby]

16. Unbelievable...This story has octopus legs and growing n/t

[MetaTrope]

5. When is Cheney's next duck-hunting trip with Scalia?

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10. here is thread: cnn saying Scott knew before he went out to talk to press

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x416729

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13. k

[havocmom]

12. We need a law: no Supreme Court Justices can go outside with the V.P.

We sure as hell don't want junior making any more appointments there!