AP: Cheney's accident TALE filled with DISCREPANCIES

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly — and often still wrong.

The result: a week of shifting blame, belatedly acknowledged beer consumption (not "zero" drinking after all) and evolving discrepancies in how the shooting happened, its aftermath and the way it was told to the nation.

"There's a reason they call this crisis management," said corporate damage-control specialist Eric Dezenhall, "and that's because it's a mess.".....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_fact_check

[Botany]

1. I bought the whole thing ....

..... of course the Secret Service would let a man walk up behind the Vice President w/
a loaded gun as the Vice President is also using a firearm ..... as the eye witness
sat in a car @ LEAST 100 yds away and thought that the commotion was caused by the Veep
having a heart attack ...... and how the Veep after the accident went back to the house
and had a cocktail so as to set up a plausible deniability argument as far as his blood
alcohol level, if the "authorities happen to come to investigate that night ..... but they are
turned away and have to interview the Veep in the AM ...... which very conveniently let
an eye witness to the crime leave the country ..... and as this was happening the Veep
who had expressed deep concern about the care the victim was receiving stayed away from
the hospital ...... and to make sure the story got out right delayed for 5 days to make his
first public statement about the shooting to canned ?s asked by a political toady .....


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