Transcript of Cheney’s Fox interview - Politics - MSNBC.com

Transcript of Cheney's Fox interview - Politics - MSNBC.com:

"Cheney: Well, Scott does a great job and it's a tough job. It's especially a
tough job under these conditions and circumstances. I had a bit of the feeling
that the press corps was upset because, to some extent, it was about them. They didn't like the idea that we called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of
The New York Times. But it strikes me that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times is
just as valid a news outlet as The New York Times is, especially for covering a
major story in south Texas."

Cheney's comments about why he chose to release this story to the press. This is the key point that has the Beltline media upset...they weren't notified first. It once again shows the Washington media for what they are...ravenous, elite, thinking more highly of themselves than they ought.' Cheney did the right thing, whether the media agree or not. By providing his interview to Fox News exclusively, he basically tells the MSM, 'I don't trust you to properly report this story.' He's right. They are out for his hide because they don't like him.

And, true to form, David Brooks hits the nail on the head:

Meanwhile we in the regular media have our own stereotypes to guide us. We are assigned by the Fates to turn every bad thing into Watergate, to fill the air with dark lamentations about cover-ups and appearances of impropriety and the arrogance of power. We have to follow the money. (So was born the stories of the potentially missing $7 hunting license.) We are impelled to elevate horse race over substance and write tales in which the quality of the message management takes precedence over the importance or unimportance of what's being
said.

Then, rushing to the footlights, come the politicians, with their
alchemist's ability to turn reality into spin. It would have been natural, and probably smart, for some politician to put politics aside and say simply that Cheney and his friend were to be sympathized with at this moment. But life is a campaign, and they are merely players.

"The refusal of this administration to level with the American people in matters large and small is very disturbing," Hillary Clinton declared. Nancy Pelosi added, "Open government would demand that the vice president come clean on what happened there."

Finally there is the Office of the Vice President, inevitably failing to
surpass expectations. The vice president's role, on this as on all days, is to treat the press and the Washington community in general as a plague-ridden horde, from whom it is possible, upon the merest conversation or contact, to catch some soul-destroying disease. So, of course, the vice president was compelled to recreate his role as Voldemort, Keeper of the Secrets.

We have, when you put it all together, created a political climate impeccably sterilized of spontaneity and normal human response. We have our roles, dear audience. Ours is not to feel and think. Ours is but to spin or die.