Will the media gloves come off now that they understand the disdain that

[cantstandbush]

this administration has for them. Just listened to Lou Dobbs and Bay Buchanan blame Cheney's troubles all on the "liberal" media ( i take this to mean FOX is excluded from the rant). Buchanan said the media ought to be ashamed at making themselves the story. I almost fell out of my chair. No one is making the media "the story" except Buchanan and the rest of the Cheney/Bush cabal. They found a way to spin this to try to garner sympathy for Cheney. No member of the media asked how the VP was doing throughout this entire thing, according to Buchanan. (I bet this is another lie. Certainly the WH Press corps asked about the VP. I wish i could document that so I could show Buchanan to be lying.) At any rate, the media that has been sucking up to and covering up for this administration just got what they deserved...the vocal public disdain of this administration further rubbing salt into the wounds by giving the exclusive interview to FOX news when the American public deserved at least a national response on all networks.

[MSgt213]

1. Wasn't there a reporter on there who actually agreed with Bay that the

press hates Cheney and Bush? I just saw Wolf say they are going to look at whether or not the press is too aggressively reporting this story, which of course is a republican spin line. Do the media really have to suck this badly?

[cantstandbush]

2. Their jaws are sunken in they have been sucking up so much! n/t

[cantstandbush]

3. Did they ever look to see if they were covering Clinton/Lewinsky too

harshley? Especially since Clinton didn't almost kill someone.

[joemurphy]

4. To answer your question: No.

Why should they decide to be hard-hitting investigating journalists now when they were poodles in the face of for Enron, Katrina, the Downing Street Memos, the Iraq War, Plamegate, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, foreign torture and rendition, Delay, Abramoff, Diebold, Alito, the Patriot Act, Warrantless Wiretapping, the Bin Laden tapes, Jeff "Bulldog" Gannon, Halliburton, the missing Iraq reconstruction money, the reconstruction of New Orleans, and the Hamas election to name a few?

They have, however, developed great expertise in the area of reportage on missing blond white women. My guess is that they will stick to what they're good at.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Personally I think public servants in federal office should be barred from

"exclusive" interviews. Using a corporately held media company for your public relations firm is distasteful to say the least.

I'm willing to entertain the notion that I could be wrong and have overlooked something. Anyone is welcome to persuade me that exclusive interviews of high ranking government officials are a good thing. I could certainly change my mind.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Faux is having quite the circlejerk about it now..

I was flipping channels and heard them all laughing about it. "no one cares except the press pool and a few Democratic hunting experts, Americans don't care"

then they all laughed that fake little actor laugh, the one where you know they really don't believe the crap falling out of their own mouths.

[blue cat]

8. Politics is never discussed at work

because we don't have the time, but people were watching Jon Stewart on Cheney at lunch today. It's great because people seemed to feel more at ease bashing him in front of the bush bots now. Just can't wait to hear from Fitz.

[cantstandbush]

9. So to the FOX crew, the man's family doesn't care that he was shot?

FOX should be banned for indecent exposure.

[zbdent]

7. Ya think maybe Cheney's starting to realize how

the Clintons felt all through Bill's Presidency?