Thursday, February 16, 2006

MSM Cry-babies attack Cheney and Fox

Bring out the violins and get ready to shed crocodile tears. Fox has scooped the MSM with an exclusive interview of VP Dick Cheney, his first after last weekend's murderous hunting rampage.
Cheney finally addressed the incident Wednesday, but the forum in which he chose to do so -- in an exclusive interview with Fox News host Brit Hume -- quickly became another source of contention....
Oh-oh! Here comes the nasty turn. Sources say [fill in the blanks]. Ever notice how you always get this, pitched in a breathless way that indicates the whole world agrees with the opposition.

Well, at least this source cites a couple of the usual suspects:

But some Democrats and competing broadcasters charged that Cheney chose to speak only with Fox News because of a perception that the cable channel is sympathetic to the Republican administration. They called for the vice president to hold a news conference with the rest of the media.

"Now that he feels forced to talk, he wants to restrict the discussion to a friendly news outlet, guaranteeing no hard questions from the press corps," Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said in a statement.

Boo-hoo, Frank. Forced to talk. That's pretty rich (as in frank). How many times have Bill and Hill been on O'Reilly? But that's different, of course, since Democrats never have to say they're sorry. (Or mean it when they occasionally say it.)But, hey, Lautenberg's a partisan Democrat and is arguably entitled to utter such drivel. But at least we can count on objectivity from the MSM. Not. Folks are apparently even more bitter over at CNN, which Rush Limbaugh once aptly dubbed The Clinton News Network":
On CNN, commentator Jack Cafferty called the interview "a little bit like Bonnie interviewing Clyde. ... I mean, running over there to the Fox network -- talk about seeking a safe haven."
Unadulterated horse hockey, Jack, and you know it. Not to mention the usual case of sour grapes. The Veep obviously prefers, ah, fair and balanced coverage of sensitive issues. As opposed to political attacks from the network whose objective and now former news exec Eason Jordan last year regaled the far-left Davos conference with blatant lies, baselessly accusing American GIs of assassinating journalists in Iraq before a predictably hate-Amerikkka Euro audience which no doubt cooed and applauded in approval. (Not sure if he ever appeared on Fox to answer to those charges.)

The blogosphere is in the process of turning these fossils out to pasture. Everyone of these blow-dries is exactly like the snotty clique in high school that used to revel in making everyone else's lives miserable. As we all come to learn at our 20-year high school reunions, clowns like these usually end up making a career out of cleaning urinals or some equally lofty pursuit. But they themselves are almost certainly the last ones to see the irony in this. Just as their blow-dry MSM counterparts will be still be sitting in their expensive chairs ready to spend another night passing judgment on their inferiors when the cameras shut off and the lights go out for the final time.

1 comment:

Wonker said...

Dear GT,

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Since I'm obviously dealing with a political sophisticate here, I'm wondering if you've ever heard of the term "irony?"

For a guy like me, Fox News is indeed "fair and balanced." Obviously for someone like you, CNN is "fair and balanced." But then, you knew that.

How we then time-traveled from this issue back to Bill Clinton's knowledge of anatomy and perhaps even his shameless waste of a fine cigar is, I guess, typical of someone who has all the lefty talking points memorized and manages to get to them no matter whether they bear any relation to the topic or not. Or perhaps you were just free associating. But since you wanted to go there...

In point of fact, Bill perjured himself, which is a felony as defined by the law, which makes no distinctions about the "quality" of a felony. If you don't like this point of law, get the law changed, don't complain about it to me or imagine what I think, by which you probably mean "feel." This issue has nothing to do with how anybody "thinks." It has to do with a point of law.

The Veep, on the other hand, committed no felony. He violated no law. But I can absolutely assure you that I won't be making a date to hunt quail with him anytime soon.