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February 21, 2006
Despite Casualties, MSM Presses Forward on Cheney Hunting Accident
Posted by Dave Blount at February 21, 2006 7:12 AM
It looks like the media has paid a price for its grotesque overindulgence in the Cheney hunting story — and yet if you stay tuned, you will be subjected to more of the same.
On Meet the Depressed, David Gregory had to eat some humble pie as a result of a childish tantrum he threw in the White House press room:
[I]t was inappropriate for me to lose my cool with the press secretary representing the President. I don't think it was professional of me.
Not that Gregory's repentance runs very deep — he still asserts that the hunting accident was "emblematic of the rather secretive style with the press by the Vice President," and it's highly possible he will behave the same way in the future:
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.
At least Gregory didn't dress up like a liberal elite snob's conception of what a hunter would look like:
Just as Al Franken and John Stewart have made it clear that you can't rely on comedians to bring you the news, Dana Milbank proved that stand-up comedy is not an appropriate sideline for supposedly serious journalists from the Washington Post. On CNN's Reliable Sources, as Drudge Reports,
Dana Milbank fretted that the White House is exploiting the public's growing disdain for the mainstream media. "Of course they succeed," Milbank said of Bush aides. "The press always looks awful. They will once again make us look awful."
Actually, the MSM made themselves look awful by behaving like the ankle-biting partisan twerps they are as they neglected serious news stories in favor of a minor accident in hopes it would embarrass the Vice President — and they're still doing it. Check out this week's covers for Newsweak and Slime:
Hat tip: Alamo Nation
