Bush Learned Within Three Hours That Cheney Shot Hunter???

[im10ashus]

This says that Andy Card told Bush. I JUST watched on NBC Nightly News that Rove told Bush!

:wtf:

President Bush was informed within three hours that Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a fellow hunter in South Texas on Saturday afternoon, the White House said today.

The shooting, which occurred at about 5:30 p.m., left a prominent Austin lawyer and Republican campaign supporter, Harry Whittington, wounded by shotgun pellets in the neck, shoulder and chest.

"Chief of Staff Andy Card called the president around 7:30 p.m . to inform him that there was a hunting accident," a statement released late today by the White House said. "He did not know the vice president was involved at that time. Subsequent to the call, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with Mrs. Armstrong. He then called the president shortly before 8:00 p.m. to update him and let him know the Vice President had accidentally shot Mr. Whittington."

In a contentious briefing with the White House press corps earlier about a subject that captivated the capital and news reports today, Scott McClellan, the president's spokesman, said he himself did not learn until about 6 a.m. on Sunday that it was Mr. Cheney who had shot Mr. Whittington, 78, when the two were on a weekend quail hunting trip along with several others at the Armstrong Ranch. Mr. Whittington is still listed in stable condition at the intensive care unit of Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in nearby Corpus Christi, Tex. Peter Banko, the hospital administrator, told reporters today that Mr. Whittington would be moved out of the intensive care unit later in the day but that no date had yet been set for him to leave the hospital.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/politics/13cnd-cheney.html?hp&ex=1139893200&en=181b942291c6b3ef&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[librechik]

1. I would like to have seen that cat-fight

when Rove decked Card for the privilege of being "The One" who told the Dauphin the bad news....After all, who wears the pants around the WH?

[mzteris]

2. BS

they're just saying that to make it look like bush was "in the know" and knows what's going on.

NO ONE actually believes the ijut was told until the situation was under control.

[catlawyer]

3. Wouldn't that be within one hour?

Shooting happens at 5:30 p.m. central time.

Card tells Bush "around 7:30 p.m." eastern time (same time).

Rove tells Bush before 8:00 p.m. eastern time it was Cheney (6 p.m. central time)

[im10ashus]

4. They don't state which time zones specifically.

Shouldn't they be able to confirm WHO told him and when though? :shrug:

[sandnsea]

7. 6:30 would be illegal hunting

Would mean it happened after dusk, as I read somewhere else. But it makes alot more sense, and like SoCalDem said, why the hell would they call the friggin' President unless they told him Cheney was involved. These guys are lying their asses off.

[goclark]

5. I thought it was a few little chicken pecks on his face...

Why can't they let him go on home, why keep him in the hospital?

Do they think we are CRAZY!

[SoCalDem]

6. BIG fat LIE

""He did not know the vice president was involved at that time."...

WHY ELSE would he even bother to call??

The first phone call to Card was probably along the lines of " HOLY CRAP, DICK shot his hunting buddy in the FACE...the guy's bleeding like a stuck pig, and what do we do if he DIES?

They waited to make sure he was not mortally wounded.

[sandnsea]

8. You got that right

That's exactly what happened.

[im10ashus]

9. It's definitely not going to go away.

Even the MSM smells something.