{"id":6627,"date":"2006-02-15T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T17:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2006-02-15T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T17:13:21","slug":"cheney-finally-speaks-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cheney-finally-speaks-on-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney finally speaks — on Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News’ The Note conveniently laid out Dick Cheney’s options<\/a> today, including keeping quiet, hosting a press conference, or sitting down for “an exclusive interview with one groveling, well-chosen interviewer.”<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Cheney actually chose one of these. Take a wild guess which one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vice President Dick Cheney planned to break his silence Wednesday in his first televised interview about the Texas hunting accident in which he shot a 78-year-old lawyer.<\/p>\n

Cheney was to appear on Fox News Channel at 6 p.m. EST, the network and the White House announced. He hasn’t spoken publicly about the accident Saturday that hospitalized Harry Whittington of Austin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The interview was scheduled for 2 p.m. and Fox said excerpts would be aired before the 6 p.m. program.<\/p>\n

I can’t say I’m terribly surprised by this tactic, but if Cheney is hoping to improve this public-relations nightmare, running to a Republican news outlet to handle softball questions probably isn’t the best way to do it.<\/p>\n

For Cheney to break his silence on Fox News is, unfortunately, almost cowardly.<\/p>\n

Update<\/em>: Commenters seem troubled by my use of the word “almost,” so let me explain. It’s completely spineless to hide at an undisclosed location indefinitely, with the shades drawn and the phone off the hook, waiting for the big bad reporters to go away. It’s only partially<\/i> spineless to go on the Republicans’ cable network to answer softball questions. I wrote “almost” because there’s a small possibility that the Fox News interviewer — I’m not sure who’ll it be, though I suspect it’s Brit Hume — will ask a couple of vaguely difficult questions. Maybe. I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC News’ The Note conveniently laid out Dick Cheney’s options today, including keeping quiet, hosting a press conference, or sitting down for “an exclusive interview with one groveling, well-chosen interviewer.” As it turns out, Cheney actually chose one of these. Take a wild guess which one. Vice President Dick Cheney planned to break his silence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}