Yes, I watched the medical press conference (and enjoyed when the ER supervising physician looked like he was going to tear the reporter a new one, toward the end.)
Let's cut to the chase: Whittington had an asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. They're keeping an eye on him, but don't see any permanent damage. They expect it to have no effect on his life in the future.
In a 78 year old man, this is still not as serious as if Whittington had broken an ankle.
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Or broken a hip. In my line of work that is considered the beginning of the end.
I heard Bob Novak on Fox and he said that he hoped the Bush administration had learned that it has to {click} that is where I turned it off and finished the sentence for him.
kiss our asses.
The press acts as if they are so damn special and the truth is often as not they just take any situation and make it worse than it has to be.
War in Iraq, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, the mining accident, the whole 2004 presidential election, the NSA leaks, The CIA leaks, Valerie Plame....
For Bob Novak who is somewhere to the right of Pat Buchanan to be complaining about the Bushies and the press after the whole Valerie Plame fiasco is just more than I can take.
If this guy had been 38 instead of 78 he would probably not have even been put in a hospital. I did not see that press conference but I saw one earlier when a doctor said the injuries were superficial.
knucklehead:
Well it isn't really important.... but the press is such a bunch of whiney ass babies that they think they can make people forget their lack of balls when it comes to standing up to a bunch of terrorists by going after Cheney. He is a safe target.
...they think they can make people forget their lack of balls when it comes to standing up to a bunch of terrorists by going after Cheney. He is a safe target.
Maybe less safe than they thought....
peter:
I just love the way the Bushbashers pretend to give a rat's ass about this man. It seems they think calling them is the most important step to take after an accident, not taking care of the person who has been hurt.
And mark, give it up.
peter:
I think Cheney knew that pandering to the press was what the egotists expected but he also knew that they would descend on that ranch, that family and that hospital like a pack howling coyotes asap..so he gave his friend and his family a few hours of relative peace before the circus came to town. In the end it will not have mattered, a few hours won't have any effect on the story or change its outcome.
It is just something for certain people to make an issue of.
Someday when a Democrat is back in the WH things will settle down because these guys will be too busy burying stories and covering up scandals to get all excited about something like this.
Peter:
In truth the locals were there in less than an hour, but hey mark is too busy making baseless accusations and getting his posts deleted to know or care about the facts.
But you can't reason with people like marky. I've been having a debate with a person over at Confederate Yankee who insists - even after I post articles and links to articles - that Whittington's heart attack was seriously life threatening and that it was likely that another heart attack would occur due to the bird shot.
And now Harry "I Got $68K But Didn't Take The Money" Reid is saying that not promptly notifying the press reflects on how the administration runs the WH. Hey Harry - how quick did you notify the press that you are being investigated for taking money from Abramoff? Why isn't the press complaining about that?
The way the press has treated this administration, it's no damn wonder the press finds itself screaming about 'secrecy'. Cheney knows his constituency is the people, not the David Gregorian chanters.
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