I believe that the main reason Cheney gave his story on Faux

[Road Scholar]

is that "Britt" was instructed not to ask who all was in the hunting party. He has since stayed away from the press.
Just saying that the "Swiss Miss" slipped out the back door and that was the plan to cover that up. IMHO

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[MadMaddie]

2. Why would Gregory apologize?

I don't get it. McFellon was being rude and disrespectful to all of the reporters. Gregory had nothing to apologize for....arghh...this is what is wrong with the media and the dems...

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[Chiyo-chichi]

14. Give it up.

First of all he didn't say that his wife "told him he had to apologize."

GREGORY: I was frustrated, I said what I said, but I think that you should never speak that way, as my wife reminded me, number one. And number two, I think it created a diversion from some of the serious questions in the story, so I regret that. I was wrong, and I apologize.

Secondly, perhaps he picked NBC because he works for NBC.

Third, what does one thing have to do with the other? Nothing.

Finally, let's see what Mr. Gregory said after his apology...

GREGORY: But I think what—what’s interesting about all of this is that Mary and others in the White House have been eager to stoke this as a false debate between the vice president and the White House press corps, attempting to cast this as the White House press corps is a ping-pong in the culture wars. The reality is that that false debate obscures some real facts. You laid out some of them in terms of questions that were raised about how the vice president initially disclosed this, making the decision to not disclose it himself and have Katharine Armstrong do it.

It also overlooks a very important point, and that is there was disagreement, as Mary well knows, within the White House about how this was handled: the question of why the vice president didn’t call the president. Also the fact that there were some White House advisers who told me this week, it made the president look bad, it raised questions about who was really running the rodeo in the White House.

The vice president created these questions. It’s also emblematic of the rather secretive style with the press by the vice president. And so I think it—it’s fair to disagree with the White House press corps, or with me, or the White House press corps generally, I think, is more important, in terms of how we go about answers. But I, for one, don’t apologize for pushing hard for answers. I think people who view the news or view what I do for a partisan lens may think I was making a political statement. I was not. I make no apologies for pushing hard for information because sometimes it’s hard to get.

[Mike Nelson]

3. huh?

???

[hlthe2b]

4. ??????????????????

What the hell did D. Gregory have to apologize for? Doing his job? McClellan should have apologized to David.

I'm sure MSNBC/NBC folded to an organized Freeper assault...

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Huh what?

Gregory has been doing very well with this story.

[Road Scholar]

6. You are exactly right. They picked a controlled environment. nt

I just hate to see Cheney get away with that as much as they have self righteously harped on Kennedy and Clinton all these years.

[Lerkfish]

12. apropos of nothing, I like

anchovies.


now back to the topic: "who precisely was he apologizing too (sic)?

Cheney should apologize to Whittington, for one, Cheney's wife, for another (swiss miss instant cocoa), the sheriff's dept for obstructing justice, and the american people for acting as if he is above the law.

I'm just getting started....


The Iraqi people, for starting a naked war of agression based on knowing lies, Plame and Brewster Jennings, for committing treason to out a crucial CIA operation...


want me to go on?


oh, and yeah, welcome to DU

[Lerkfish]

13. glad I got my choice of toppings in quickly.

:)

[obreaslan]

15. It didn't take too long....

I was watching on another thread. :)

[aden_nak]

7. The main reason is that Cheney could write Britt's questions for him.

But yes, the identity of those in the hunting party was a major factor. As was the level of alcohol in the Vice President's bloodstream at the time he pulled the trigger. As was Britt's compliance in simply accepting every answer that Dick Cheney offered, without so much as probing the man for a bit more factual information. I mean, an interview isn't supposed to be an interrogation, but what we saw was a speech, interspersed with the proper queue lines, so it would appear to be a conversation. It was an advertisement, at best.

[MnFats]

8. you mean Hume was't a snarling pit bull during that interview?

He didn't make Cheney feel like Daniel in the Lion's Den?
Wow.
My faith is shattered.

"Did you get the bird?'
that was the toughest question I heard....

[Road Scholar]

10. I thought they were going to kiss. nt

[central scrutinizer]

11. they were playing footsie under the table

[Disturbed]

16. Fox was chosen because their audience is the most...

pliable to accepting lies from the Bush Regime.

Mrs. Armstrong was not the eyewitness. The Swiss Ambasador was the actual eyewitness yet no official statement was on record from her.

[Road Scholar]

17. My point exactly. nt