Hysteria Unleashed
Mark Steyn at The Corner, writing about The Great Cheney Hunting Accident Caper:
A "sinister cover-up" has to boil down to more than not giving David Gregory a press release. And, given that the media's spent the last two weeks telling the public why they don't need to see these Danish cartoons, it's hard to take them seriously as sudden converts to the public's right to know every detail, if only when it comes to minor hunting accidents.I think this is just about the best summation of the situation I've heard yet. The pathetic whining (even from Brit Hume's panel last night, and NRO's John Podhoretz) has become surreal to the point of dementia. Is it news? Sure. But you'd think he'd just assassinated a political rival from the inanities flying out there.
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I had a few thoughts in my mind for a parody of the White House press corps' behavior, but the left has become almost beyond parody. Oh sure, I could have had David Gregory et al asking if the gun was mail order, and where Dick Cheney was on that November day in 1963? Or, in my parody, they could have asked why the press had not been allowed to have embeds within the hunting party? Why they had not been alerted that there would be a shooting, ala the Granada invasion? Was the Cheney hunting party actually in Texas, or had they crossed over to Mexico? Would the President issue Cheney a pardon? Would Cheney fight extradiction back to Texas, or Mexico? Did his travel across state lines upon his return to DC make it a case the FBI could handle? And so on, but, really, could anything be more ridiculous than what the Lame-Stream Media actually did yesterday?
So, I will only ask; is the way the corporate media was attempting to position themselves as the only ones who could cover the event, thereby depressing the value of the local reporter, is this evidence of monopolistic practices on the part of the LSM (aka MSM, aka The Big Guys)? Is Big Media trying to squeeze out the little guy? Is it time for a Congressional investigation into Big Media?
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February 14, 2006 10:49 PM