First Cheney Statement Didn't Admit He Was Shooter...

[kpete]

First Cheney Statement Didn't Admit He Was Shooter...
Time | JOHN CLOUD | Posted February 19, 2006 10:48 AM

READ MORE: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, New York Times, Karl Rove, Halliburton
<...> Cheney was in for a fitful evening; he was "just crushed," another guest told the New York Times. The paper says the hunting party somberly ate roast beef for dinner and got periodic reports from two guests who had gone to the hospitals along with Whittington's wife Mercedes. The Secret Service notified local authorities, and a traveling aide to the Vice President gave a heads-up to the White House Situation Room. Bush adviser Karl Rove called Armstrong between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to ask about Whittington—who, like Armstrong, is a friend of Rove's—and learned of Cheney's role in the accident.

At about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the Caller-Times. But the statement "didn't say much of anything," Matalin says—not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that "a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness," would be preferable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/02/19/first-cheney-statement-di_n_15968.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1161178,00.html

[babylonsister]

1. Keep drinking and eating that roast beef, Cheney, and I hope

it was prime rib loaded w/fat.
While his 'friend' is being rushed to a hospital after being SHOT IN THE FACE by this sorry excuse for a human, Cheney eats roast beef?:wtf:

[Vanje]

2. "This sorry excuse for a human", pours himself a cocktail.......

THEN eats roast beef.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. and this little piggie had roast beef, and this little piggie had none...

Every day, there's lots of piggies, living piggie lives
You can see them out for dinner, with their piggie wives
Clutching forks and knives
To eat their bacon...

[Cocoa]

10. but he ate it somberly

[elehhhhna]

3. K&R fro cheney: the coverup

[kenny blankenship]

5. Betcha Cheney was trying to hush it up/ find a fallguy

Stalling the authorities and their report taking would be the first order of business but at the same time, he'd need to be working on his hosts and all the other witnesses to get them to tell a story without him in it as the shooter. As a lawyer Whittington might be counted on to delay giving a definite statement on the way to the hospital. And even if he blabbed, his account wouldn't be taken as definitive if contradicted by an account shared by multiple witnesses. But nothing will work without someone else to take the blame for having shot the old geezer.
I wonder who was the first to tell Cheney "No", and how many people he came right out and asked to accept fault for his act?

[babylonsister]

7. Randi speculated he was waiting to see if the guy died. nt

[leftofthedial]

6. lying bastards

they despise the truth

the truth is ALWAYS their last option

[FreedomAngel82]

17. And they only

apologize or anything like that when they're forced to. :mad:

[MrBenchley]

8. The more I hear the more I suspect

that the DUer calling himself Rex_Goodheart was right, and the delay wasn't so that Cheney coudl sober up...it was because they were HOPING Whittington would die and they could avoid mentioning Cheney's name at all.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. And didn't they also

take him to a hospital farther away that didn't have very good equipment like one near by? They tried to kill him. No wonder he's all apologizing for the "accident" that Cheney did!

[MrBenchley]

19. I wonder about that myself.

I know that the guy who's his doctor got sanctioned in Iowa for prescription abuse.

[spanone]

9. How nice of them to decide what a public servant should reveal.

Perhaps the truth???

[Supersedeas]

20. amid the confusion -- is there anything this group is competent at?

[opihimoimoi]

11. Too many peeps commented the best way is to admit fault...took 4 days

[peacetalksforall]

12. Their world must be very difficult for them. It's extremely hard work.

Deceptions. Deals. Diversions. Think about the really big deals that go down, They labor over designing, tracking, maintaining, securing, erecting walls, and designing and carrying out public relations. They have to figure out how to carry out their theft and lies - even involving people of other countries. All parts are quite complex - it seems that they must have to computerize it - just tracking who's doing what and what supplies they need.

They have to figure out what deals they go into, figure out the degree of secrecy required, figure out how to market the part above the water line as something good for Americans - a piece of Americana and make it into a 'no big deal' deal. It's very complex. Especially, the long path to getting away with it.

That's where Cheney comes from.

The deliberations and attempts at secrecy are the standard.

But this one had excessive transparency - because it probably wasn't planned and made ready in advance?

Dick Devious lost one.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. He must have been pretty shook up that day?

BEFORE he went hunting. Seems he was really off his game if he made such a stupid mistake, for an experienced hunter under very controlled circumstances.

[peacetalksforall]

13. He needs to be laughed at folks. He cannot remain the arrogant

big gun.

[chat_noir]

14. VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies

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://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/02/18/ap2537023.html

[FreedomAngel82]

15. So they tried to hide it

Ugh. He broke the law and they tried to hide it. Well duh what else is news?