Regarding delayed reporting...

From here:

Published: February 14, 2006 1:50 PM ET
NEW YORK Former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater criticized Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday for delaying the release of information about his hunting accident on Saturday, saying Cheney "ignored his responsibility to the American people." He told E&P he was "appalled by the whole handling of this."

"The responsibility for handling this, of course, was Cheney's," Fitzwater, who served as presidential press secretary for George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, told E&P in a phone interview from his Maryland home. "What he should have done was call his press secretary and tell her what happened and she then would have gotten a hold of the doctor and asked him what happened. Then interview [ranch owner] Katharine Armstrong to get her side of events and then put out a statement to inform the public.

"They could have done all of that in about two hours on Saturday. It is beyond me why it was not done this way."

Just wondering why there wasn't all this bru-haha or panties-in-a-wad mentality by the MSM when the Vince Foster suicide wasn't reported immediately; or why we had to wait a good four months til we found out Bill Clinton was suborning and committing perjury?


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