Posted by zeugma on February 14, 2006, at 15:47:17
In reply to Disclosing incident, posted by gardenergirl on February 14, 2006, at 14:45:49
Was it appropriate for a private citizen to be the one telling the press?>>
I'm so glad I'm not a journalist covering the White House. I don't have the patience for it.>>
If Dick Cheney had been given the responsibility for telling the press, all we would have heard is that $7 had been promptly sent to cover the stamp he had forgotten to obtain when he used his gun.
And that, in fact, is exactly what we did hear from his office.
Speaking for myself, if I see the Vice President, the President, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Defense shooting anyone, for any reason, in my backyard, I will immediately call the Associated Press and let them know, as I have a fair idea that such an event would be of interest to my fellow Americans.
Of course, I realize that doing so will not make Scott McClellan's job any easier, or those of the reporters assigned to the White House. an e-mail distributed by McClellan's office to the reporters began "Q. So when did the president definitely know that the Vice President had shot somebody?" (which is what I assume you were referring to, gg). Receiving an e-mail that began in that way would tax my patience, too, as well as whatever sanity I have left.
-z
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