Cheney the Media Critic

Depending on who you ask, Brit Hume either did a really good job last night interviewing Vice President Dick Cheney or he was precisely the patsy everyone expected him to be.

Regardless, there were some interesting exchanges, not the least of which were the ones where Cheney went after the press:

“She wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which is the local newspaper, covers that area, to reporters she knew. And I thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting.”

“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.

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