Score One for Brit
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:11 pm
I know current events get done to death elsewhere, but I really liked this exchange between Brit Hume and our esteemed VP:
Asked why the media wasn't told for 18 hours and only then by a private citizen on her own initiative, Cheney said it was respect for the process of informing the press that led him not to inform them. "We didn't know for sure what kind of shape Harry was in," said Cheney. "One of the things I'd learned over the years was first reports are often wrong and you need to really wait and nail it down."
"There were some things you knew," Hume reminded the veep. "I mean, you knew the man had been shot, you knew he was injured, you knew he was in the hospital, and you knew you'd shot him."