Does the cheney shooting thing seem a little like, er, bs to anyone else?

[Skip Intro]

Does it seem, odd....I guess, the attention to it? Why this, and not the lies that have resulted in hundreds of thousands dead and wounded? Why this and not the crimes against national security, like cheney-approved leaking of classified material? Why this and not the people dead within the US due to the regime's lack of action when faced with a national disaster? Why this and not the assault on the rights and freedoms of the American people? Why this and not the theft of the peoples' wealth to line the pockets of the well-connected? Why this and not the corruption and crimes?

maybe its just me...

[Atman]

1. Even David Gergen noticed it on Hardball this evening...

He said he thinks there are a lot more important things we should be talking about, but here we are, stuck on what SHOULD have been a relatively minor story.

I have to agree at this point...a lot of bad stuff just came out about Cheney, and here we are, talking about an "accident" instead of the stuff he did ON PURPOSE.

These fuckers are brilliant.

[C_U_L8R]

5. The shooting may be minor,,, or not

but the BIG story is the the lies, the manipulations, the cover-up
and the the down-right corruption that pervades the White House
and the Republican Party.

The spotlight is on them ... and boy, they don't disappoint.

We are all witnesses

[fooj]

2. It's not just you...

It's a stinking fact! It's hard to believe that this is all it takes to shine the light on the rat bastard...HELL, had I known that I'd have handed him a double and a shotgun 3-4 years ago.

Peace.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It isn't everyday that a VP does an Elmer Fudd imitation

and then hides out.

This is a far more comprehensible story than the others for the average joe.

[txindy]

9. That about sums it up, I think.

:toast:

The public 'gets' this. Darth shot another American and ran away from his responsibility. Heck, he's STILL running.

Oh, yeah, the public gets it this time. In a big way.

[Jade Fox]

4. Here's an interesting explaination....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/happy-valentines-day-di_b_15665.html

[Talismom]

11. That's funny! Serial philanderer and milk chocolates...LOL! n/t

[Boomer]

6. It's the familiarity factor

Your average Joe is willing to let Cheney and Co. run the country the way they see fit and accept their rationales for the decisions they make.

Not so with hunting, which is a familiar activity for lots of people in this country. Especially the rural redneck men who are most willing to give the * Administration a free pass on waging war. Ordinary people KNOW the rules for hunting, they follow them, they know just what degree of carelessness is needed to result in a serious shooting accident.

This touches home in a way that foreign policy issues do not.

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. The explanations so far are very unbelievable

eom

[hexola]

8. What about abortion?

Leave this sort of logic to the freepers -

We can divide our attention MANY ways...

Yeah - lets all be myopic...

The war will be there tomorrow - believe me...

[HuskerDU]

10. It is a story that the bubble boys can't spin their way like all of

the others. Cheney shot a man and we find out about it a day later.

Other stories the GOP spins away so that John Q Citizen does not have a clear idea of what happened. Plame is a good example of this. She wasn't really a CIA agent, just a clerk. She wasn't really undercover or covert. etc etc

Since the Limbaughs of the world have spent 20 years talking about the 'liberal media,' regular folks are sceptical of the media. For most stories they think 'the liberal media spin things- the repubs probably did some wrong, but the media is mostly pumping it up.'

This story hits home in a way that the others haven't. It is cut and dried, black and white with no grey area to give the criminals the benefit of the doubt. I wish the media would get as worked up about Plame.

[shanti]

12. well, now that i think about it...

*putting my :tinfoilhat: on*

we KNOW that they have been eavesdropping on their "enemies" (read: media). i wonder if they knew about the stories about to come out about big dick being the mastermind of the plame outing and "pre-emptively" struck back with this bs to take the other off the front page....i mean, they've done worse.

ok, ok, it's a thought!

[sandnsea]

13. The Vice President shot somebody and put him in ICU

Hunting from a vehicle, booze, women, carefully handled press, hiding from the press. They're covering up what happened, if the guy dies it could be criminally negligent manslaughter. The right wing acts as if it's just another day in America, when every hunter who is honest about it knows it's not. And people wonder why we're talking about it.

[AlCzervik]

14. This shooting as f'd up and surreal as it is imo has become the metaphor

for the entire administration. It showcases the VP's total arrogance and it makes Dimson look like a eunuch that walks behind the 2nd in command who is really the 1st in command. People are talking about this, it's a massive sympton of the ugly disease.

[Connie_Corleone]

15. It's stories like this that bring the big guys down.