Blankley on the "exalted ones"

Hat tip to GOP Bloggers who call Tony Blankley's insights into media reaction to the accidental shooting by Dick Cheney "elitist groupthink": (Emphasis added)

February 15, 2006 The Shooting Party By Tony Blankley In the absence of any pressing news these days -- other than Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia, the turning over of our East Coast ports to be managed by a United Arab Emirates firm, the criminal leaking of vital NSA secrets to the New York Times, Mexican military incursions across our southern border, the Iraqi crisis, Congress's refusal to deal with the developing financial collapse of Social Security and Medicare, inter alia -- the White House press corp has exploded in righteous fury over the question of the vice president's little shooting party last weekend. As I understand the profound concern of the ever-alert White House reporters, they smell a constitutional crisis because the shooting party failed to alert the media of the accidental shooting down in Corpus Christi, Texas. Well, actually, they did alert the Corpus Christi media -- but that didn't count. Unless the exalted ones have been formally informed by an official government press secretary, no public communication has technically occurred. [READ THE FULL ARTICLE]

Unfortunately, giving up on the Cheney 90% cycle to cycle coverage of the nonstory story means they can devote 98% of the news to Neil Entwistle. The chances that these pampered and spoiled children who masquerade as purveyors of news will actually cover any news of any importance is slim to none.