I do not get all of the hysteria about Cheney taking a day to notify the press. Of course the press corps and many others are going nuts, Andrew Sullivan writes: "...You are not a monarch; and you are not a Pope. You have seriously wounded another human being. The news was kept from the public for a day. The man is in intensive care. There are many serious questions about the incident: How did it happen? What happened immediately thereafter? Why the decision to keep it secret for so long?..."
Maybe Cheney did not want the hospital to become a circus, which it would have.
It seems that there are many issues that are more important to be spending so much time on this. I really dont care that he shot someone on accident. Maybe the press should focus this much attention to Iraq, the Sudan, etc...
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Good call! I agree that the press is making a big issue out of this. It will be interesting to see if they expend the same effort on the new Saddam tapes to be released on Nightline tonight.
That being said, Cheney has to bear some of the blame. As VP, he should know that the press would be all over this story. As such, he should have defused the situation by coming out right away and announcing what happened. He could have kept the name of the hospital secret to avoid the circus.
The fact that he kept the whole story secret to the press, as well as the President, gives the appearance that something shady happened. It also is just an opportunity for the press to vent. Bush/Cheney have been run a pretty secretive administration. That drives the press nuts. Now they are taking free shots at Cheney as payback.
The whole thing will probably blow over in the next few days, unless the health of Whittington takes a turn for the worse.
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