Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Karl Rove wins again!
The Chron gets an E for effort, at least. This article gets points for describing the White House press conference with "kabuki." David Gregory, of NBC, gets angry when Scott McClellan drops a pretty good joke on him. See, when the White House Press Corps asks the same question 50-something times when they already know the answer is "we will not comment on a pending investigation," that's an appropriate use of time. But by no means should the press secretary dismiss a boring, non-newsworthy topic with a joke about how reporters perform for the camera.
Anyway, this is even better. Headlined: "Cheney seemed not to know basic safety rule." Which safety rule?
Be certain of your target and what's around it -- behind it, beside it and under it.
Now, I'll agree that this is an important safety rule. I just don't quite see how anyone could be ignorant of it. I'm sure Cheney knows more about this rule than Tom Stienstra, the writer. So he fucked up. It's not a matter of ignorance. It's not as if had he received "proper training" where someone explained this rule to him, he'd say "Ohhhhhhh! That makes sense. This'll change how I hunt." This story makes about as much sense as saying a driver who carelessly crashes into a car was "unaware of the rule that you should pay attention to where other cars are."
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