NYTimes saying Scott did not know of Mr. W. turn for worse

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Post in LBN.--look at what they say now.

Tue Feb-14-06 09:59 PM
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NYT-Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs
Hope this is not a dupe, it is the NYT version of this story



By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: February 15, 2006

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney, it seemed to signal an effort to defuse the accidental-shooting story with a laugh.

But by midday, it was clear that the staffs of the president and the vice president had failed to communicate. Just after arriving at work around 7:45 a.m., Mr. Cheney learned that the man he had shot, Harry M. Whittington, was about to undergo a medical procedure on his heart because his injuries were more serious than earlier believed, Mr. Cheney's spokeswoman said.

No one in Mr. Cheney's office passed the word to Mr. McClellan, senior officials at the White House said, adding that the press secretary would never have joked about the shooting accident if he had known about the turn of events involving Mr. Whittington.

It was the latest example of the degree to which Mr. Cheney's habit of living in his own world in the Bush White House — surrounded by his own staff, relying on his own instincts, saying as little as possible — had backfired since the accident in Texas on Saturday. Mr. Cheney's staff members have kept their comments to chronological details and to repeating the vice president's written statements.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/politics/15veep.html?...

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1. What's that, lie number 1,647 in this scandal?

They just don't know when to stop lying. Stupid, stupid people.

[bling bling]

2. No excuses. The occupants in the White House are tactless idiots.

Scottie's full of it. He wouldn't have handled the situation any differently no matter what. They try to make a joke out of everything. They're all a bunch of pathetic, immature children.

Anyone remember the video of Bush jokingly looking under the sofa for the non-existant weapons of mass destruction while America's sons and daughters are over in Iraq being killed and/or risking their lives for the fabled WMD's that Bush sent them over to protect us from? Classy.

[Pirate Smile]

3. I think there were two events and Scott didn't know at the 10:00 am

event when he made the orange tie joke but HE DID know about it by his regular press briefing held a couple of hours later.

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4. Yep. All it is with lies. Either Scott was lied to that morning (which

means he is lied to every day - so what is the point) or he is lying now.

Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies!!!