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February 13, 2006
Fabulous Fumble of the Week, Feb. 13 - Dick Cheney
I had a couple of other candidates in mind for this week's award until Dick did his dirty deed. Nothing like shooting an old friend to win you a Fumble Award. Perhaps prominent attorney Harry Whittington mentioned something about leaks, or secrecy, or wiretaps or something else which set Dick off, who knows. Perhaps it really was an accident. The real fumble however, is not the accidental shooting, though that is big news, but the decision by the White House to try to bury the story and not let it get out. (E&P)
More secrecy discovered adds up to another loss of yardage for the White House. Given the President's poll numbers one would think that they would try a different tactic, like truth. It might even score them a few points.
E&P has learned that the official confirmation of the shooting came about only after a local reporter in Corpus Christi, Texas, received a tip from the owner of the property where the shooting occured and called Vice President Cheney's office for confirmation.
The confirmation was made but it is not known for certain that Cheney's office, the White House, or anyone else intended to announce the shooting if the reporter, Jaime Powell of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, had not received word from the ranch owner.
One of Powell's colleagues at paper, Beth Francesco, told E&P that Powell had built up a strong source relationship with the prominent ranch owner, Katharine Armstrong, which led to the tip.
"White House aides can be expected to say that the Vice President did not shoot Whittington, which suggests a bullet, but rather sprayed him with birdshot, a type of ammunition made up of tiny pieces of lead or steel," Time predicted.
On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune's James wrote on the Washington bureau's blog at the newspaper's site, "When a vice president of the U.S. shoots a man under any circumstance, that is extremely relevant information. What might be the excuse to justify not immediately making the incident public?"
Posted by Chip Spear at February 13, 2006 10:11 AM
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