Cheney's Longest Week Comes To a Close
Saturday February 18, 2006
Vice President Cheney ends his week with fellow hunter Harry Whittington's release from a Corpus Christi, TX hospital, to continue mending at home. At a press conference, Whittington thanked the medical team for his care and said he was "sorry for all that vice president Cheney has had to go through this past week."
Whittington's face showed clearly pockmarks from birdshot as well as heavy bruising around his eye and on his neck above his collar, as photos from Bloomberg and Reuters show. If this is "peppering" I don't want to see anyone who's been "shot."
The associate publisher of the Seattle PI calls the non-accidental delay of public disclosure a "missed lesson in transparency." He notes that it was Katherine Armstrong's family that suggested she be the point person on the story, "mildly" contradicting the White House.
The handling of the story -- and forgive me, but it is news when your Vice President shoots someone -- will provide fodder for crisis communications and gun safety classes for years to come. And if this were as "common" as powers-that-be would have us believe, why is someone a heartbeat away from the Presidency risking his being shot by an errant hunter, eh?
The PI also reminds us that dismay over how this story was handled is not a partisan issue: "two former presidential press secretaries from Republican administrations, Marlin Fitzwater (Reagan and Bush I) and Ari Fleischer (Bush II), have expressed serious dismay about the information delay and overall handling of the situation."
See The Cast of Characters, Cheney: "I pulled the trigger" and Serious Side of "Dick's Got a Gun....".
Whittington's face showed clearly pockmarks from birdshot as well as heavy bruising around his eye and on his neck above his collar, as photos from Bloomberg and Reuters show. If this is "peppering" I don't want to see anyone who's been "shot."
The associate publisher of the Seattle PI calls the non-accidental delay of public disclosure a "missed lesson in transparency." He notes that it was Katherine Armstrong's family that suggested she be the point person on the story, "mildly" contradicting the White House.
The handling of the story -- and forgive me, but it is news when your Vice President shoots someone -- will provide fodder for crisis communications and gun safety classes for years to come. And if this were as "common" as powers-that-be would have us believe, why is someone a heartbeat away from the Presidency risking his being shot by an errant hunter, eh?
The PI also reminds us that dismay over how this story was handled is not a partisan issue: "two former presidential press secretaries from Republican administrations, Marlin Fitzwater (Reagan and Bush I) and Ari Fleischer (Bush II), have expressed serious dismay about the information delay and overall handling of the situation."
See The Cast of Characters, Cheney: "I pulled the trigger" and Serious Side of "Dick's Got a Gun....".
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