Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

The Cheney hunting matter:

I heard a snippet of a White House press conference concerning this matter on Monday. A reporter (dont recall which one) asked why the delay in reporting the incident. He got the now stock answer that it was reported by the landowner at her leisure, etc. That reporter then adamantly scoffed "come on, you have a situation room here and all sorts of people involved and it takes you 22 hours to report . . . ". The guy was genuinely pissed and was not going to accept the stock bullshit from Scott McClellan and the White House.

My question is who gives a crap about the delay in reporting the hunting incident (I dont care if he was drinking, I dont care if he did not have a quail stamp, all minor stuff) when compared with all the other lies the press corps has just swallowed and not challenged when it comes to Scott McClellan and the White House. I mean we all hope the man who got shot will be OK, and we all think it was an unfortunate incident, but why are we still talking about such a minor thing as if it were a huge deal?

We dont torture, we dont wiretap, we dont leak covert CIA agents names, we know they have WMD and exactly where they are and we cant wait for the silly inspectors, the "war" will take "weeks not months" and require small troop levels, the no bid contracts and missing billions in the rebuilding effort are normal, the medicare prescrip drug plan will only cost 2 billion, Social Security will be bankrupt, the President really cares about Terry Schiavo, The "Healthy Forests" initiative is great for forests, the "Clear Skies" initiative is great for the skies, that dude we installed at PBS is there to make it more "balanced" . . . . . blah blah blah blah on and on. (True many of these things have been questioned, but not so much by the mainstream media, and certainly I have not recently heard a "hey wait a minute" at the White House press briefing, until this Cheney matter.)

NOW the press decides its time to grow some cajones and call bullshit on the information coming from the White House? Over the hunting accident reporting delay?

I think it is fantastic some journalists are starting to demand answers. However, it seems we have many more issues which are actually important we could be demanding about. This Cheney thing is a silly (and non governmentally related) matter and we should not be wasting time with it, much less choosing it as a place to make a stand about "truth" in this administration.