Cheney's Rules for the Press

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/02/28/BL2007022801191.html


After nine days of almost completely ignoring the small pool of reporters who diligently followed him around through seven countries, Vice President Cheney yesterday finally agreed to a short group interview. But only on one condition: The reporters would have to agree not to tell anyone that the person they talked to was him.

Cheney's insistence on being identified as a "senior administration official" -- even when the transcript shows he spoke in the first person -- is in some ways laughably trivial.

But in other ways, the vice president's decision to extort reporters into a ridiculous agreement reflects the contempt Cheney has for the press corps.

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As it turns out, this particular case was so absurd that some reporters -- who weren't directly a party to the agreement -- have blown Cheney's cover sky high.
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snake cheney is full of himself

and nobody stops him

[Supersedeas]

1. Fox doesn't find it trivial or laughable -- just the VP showing strong leadership

[madokie]

2. and nobody stops him is what worries me the most

he's vile, insane, dangerous all kinds of not good things and nobody stops him. what a shame

[Rob H.]

3. "...reflects the contempt Cheney has for the press corps."

Not to put to fine a point on it, but Cheney has contempt for everyone. Why should the press corps be any different?

[patrice]

4. Meanwhile, he makes the Blood of American Troops the new Bait in the new Bait and Switch

Have you read this yet? http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

RE: General Pace's testimony before the Senate Appropriations committee yesterday - Pace is saying one third of the total military force in Iraq will not be fully manned, fully trained, or equipped AND he (**Cheney**) doesn't want Murtha to do anything about that.

Pace also said before the Senate Appropriations Committee that a weak Iraqi government (Shia) results in stronger militias (Sunni). The "Redirection" documented by Seymour Hersh (linked above) describes a process that is weakening Shia in the region and strengthening Sunnis.

So, as the Sunni Iraqi militias get stronger they have to decide whether to kill more Americans or more Shia. Doesn't the fact that the Administration is resisting Murtha's plan, and thus leaving those forces weak in that situation, suggest that this is supposed to push the Sunni Iraqi militias in the direction of attacking the Shia instead?

It's the old "Bait and Switch" routine again. Only this time it is American Blood being waved under the noses of the Sunnis in the region to get them into what's going on, and then through the use of special Sunni operative$$$$$$$$, their efforts are turned on the Shia instead.

[HuffleClaw]

5. it was damned odd and funny

cowardly too. he's really lost it.

[A Simple Game]

6. Half of me wishes they wouldn't even cover him.

The other half is glad that they are.

Nothing would please him more than to be completely in the shadows.