You are a bitter one today, guess you haven't have any luck at all lately.

Don't worry though, after 2008 and 2012,, you can stay mad for another 8 years. Soooo sorry.

Wouldn't Katiephobia be a fear of Katie Couric, and thus you do not get to see her in the mornings? :-)

So far, the public seems to be siding with the White House rather than the press corps.

Where? From blogs, to the news, to call-in talk shows, it seems most people are on a witch hunt. I have seen more assumptions and false reports than I care to repeat. Where does all the conspiracy theory come from?

So now we are to believe that the local authorities are implicated? Or are they complete incompetents, unable to solve the 'crime'?

People, what makes you think you or the MSM knows something that the authorities don't? This was a hunting ACCIDENT, pure and simple. Regardless of how the story was released, there would have been angry backlash about 'the cover-up'. Hell, even if there was video, we would be hearing about how it was tampered with or incomplete.

Time to check yourselves people. You can't just call some one a liar or drunk without proof. I think the VP should start filing slander charges. Why do those who 'hate' the admin want so much to see something that isn't there?

Fox news? If you don't like it, turn it off. I'm tired of people bitching about ONE station surrounded by the liberal MSM. CNN gives you their spin: we tortured whoever, bungled this, misreported that. FOX puts both sides on the air, lets them state their position. Fair and balanced. THAT'S what liberals don't like, and the fact that they are repeatedly allowed to embarass themselves.

The news that our Vice President shot a man was withheld for almost a day and (more disturbingly) the local police were kept away over night too.

In so doing, the appearance of hiding something was created. Hiding something about a shooting.

That's the real issue. The only thing the White House press had to do with it is that they're the normal mechanism of communication and thus served as the canary in a coal mine when the communication didn't occur.

Casting that as the unreasonable and jealous demands of the liberal media is classic misdirection and a total scam.

Cheney screwed up. He shot a guy and then acted like that's nobody's business but his own.

My wife's Katiephobia means, paradoxically, that I'm exposed to the Today Show on a daily basis. Its fawning deference to the White House is astonishing. And Couric used to have a tough rep as an interviewer.

The news sections of the NY Times and Wash. Post have been notorious for their buying into White House spin (see the DeLong post I linked above).

Fox News, by contrast, is a propaganda organ for the Republican Party. Literally. Roger Ailes founded it for that purpose, which it has faithfully followed. If you liked Pravda, you'll love Fox.

So, the public that hears only what the White House wants it to hear, "seems to be siding with the White House"? How remarkable.

See this DeLong post (very long), & the first comment thereto, short enough to reprint here:

this is the first Whitehouse that can always get its message out no matter what most of the press does. Fox News is more than happy to throwout anythign the Whitehouse tells it no questions asked. Talk Radio will jump when the Whitehouse asks it to. The Washington Times and the WSJ editorial page have no scruples. Bob Novak will willingly out CIA agents. The Whitehouse has no need of the traditional press because it has other large avenues which no other administration has had. So they can bully the press knowing they don't need the press as much as the press needs them.

The WH is benefiting from being able to lie to a press that thinks it bad manners to say "Hey, that's a lie!" It won't, god willing, last forever.

I would clasify reporters in the same low level as lawyers. The bottom of the food chain.