Cheney booed.
Fox News mutes it. The Washington Post just pretends it didn’t happen.
UPDATE: The Post’s gossip column, Reliable Sources, gets the story right “Vice President Cheney, tapped to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at yesterday’s Nationals home opener, drew boisterous boos from the moment he stepped on the field until he jogged off.”
UPDATE: 64-year-old Washington Nationals usher Harry Horton on the Cheney boo: “I have never – ever – heard anyone get booed like that man.â€
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The sound of the crowd is not acknowleged except that the announcers do seem to stumble a bit.
I love anything that punishes this murderer.
April 11th, 2006 at 10:43 pmThe WaPo says the booing was due to the bad pitch — ROFLMAO!!
April 11th, 2006 at 10:50 pmWho do they think they’re kidding! They even lie about irrelevant things - I guess the ctiterion must be simply if something will cause the prez and his veep to frown, then the WaPo fuzzes up the story to please them.
mr. 18% got booooooooooood,no matter how fox tried to cover it up. Blogg people were there,he got 70% boos and the rest soft clapping.
April 11th, 2006 at 10:52 pmGoddamned liberal media!
Maybe if there were a covey of flightless quail behind the plate, Cheney would have known where to throw the ball.
April 11th, 2006 at 10:53 pmBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
April 11th, 2006 at 11:12 pmBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I only wish Bush would get the same response. He deserves it.
April 11th, 2006 at 11:13 pmGlad he didn’t have a gun.
Speaking of everybody’s favorite cons….
New on EWM:
In Her Dreams: Coulter Converses with God
“Ann, we need to talk about your new book, I believe it’s called ‘Godless.’â€
Um, I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
“Ann, your lies don’t work with me, I’m omnipotent. Besides, I saw it on Amazon. I’d like to know where you get off casting judgment on the ‘godliness’ of any member of my flock–let alone millions of them.â€
I, uh, was just having fun, you know, playing devil’s advocate…no, check that, I mean…
April 11th, 2006 at 11:14 pmCheney booed … film at 11…
… unless of course you had your fingers in your ears…!…
April 11th, 2006 at 11:54 pmRight now, the WAPO has a top of the webpage and I assume to be frontpage on paper, indepth examination of the outright lies( or at best, outrageous ignorance and incompetence shown by Rumsfeld, Cheney and, lest we forget, Powell. ) The timeline is shown some of the most blatant abuses of public discourse are finally placed into context. It’s a major article from a major paper, and it’s willing to take a fairly small piece of new information and put the important context (blatant lying by Potus, VP, etc. etc. etc.)
The WaPo is full of shit sometimes, sure. Howell is an op ed writer, not an ombudsman (her word). But give them some credit for the unique gold they provide. Bushite spin is ubiquitous. They give us major stories (i.e. CIA black prisons), fascinating chats, Froomkin, blogs.
Anyway, I’m not saying don’t call them on the bs, but their lead story today could have run under the headline “Administration Lied Through Teeth For Year.” How often does that happen>?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:30 amThe Washington Post lies, even when they’re telling the truth. You can’t have it both ways, though we all try so hard.
Some, a few, of their reporters do a good job from time to time, but they save their venom for the op-ed pages, and that’s where most people look.
I get what I need of them through internet links, and even then, I’m careful to dissect how the story is told; what appears in the first paragraphs, what appears buried at the ends of their articles.
Usually, by the time I’ve read a story in WaPo I already know what’s going on, and I know when they’re lying. It happens all the time.
You can’t get away with lies if you didn’t sometimes tell the truth. Rather than going down on the WaPo (metaphorically) everytime they get something right, I prefer to recognize the piece and the writers.
Their jobs must suck, being undermined by their employers.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:42 amReally this can’t be so,
April 12th, 2006 at 12:46 amJust a bad pitch, dontcha know.
Don’t trust yer eyes,
Videos tells lies.
For truth read the WAPO.
My letter to the “ombudsman”. Does that mean Propaganda Chief?
Why would you lie? Especially about something like this?
“The first pitch of the Washington Nationals’ second season at Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium was low and away, bouncing in the dirt
before being scooped up by catcher Brian Schneider. For that, Vice
President Cheney received a round of boos from the home crowd this
afternoon.”
I saw it. Despite FOX trying to hide it, they were a bit slow off the
mark and the veep was booed from the get-go and you KNOW IT! The man
has an 18percent approval rating for god’s sake; WHO did you think you
were kidding? Everyone who didn’t see it, that’s who. And maybe to
convince everyone, like on 9/11, that we shouldn’t believe our own
eyes and ears.
This confirms that you are a propaganda arm and not a news
organization. You ought to be ashamed, but you won’t. You will,
however, in the new age of information, be swept aside.
You are pathetic. It nauseates me.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 amI hear you, Bruce M. Smith. I used to love the Washington Post, I am a DC resident, and not only did I read it every day, I considered one of the main points of pride as a DC resident.
No longer. They write some good articles, yes. But they are completely uneven, in bias (right wing lately) and quality. This is not just me — it is a growing feeling among everyone I know in DC. I find myself talking about it with more and more people. It started at different times for different friends of mine. For, me the Iraq war, and the Post’s unquestionaing cheerleading for the Iraq war. I was in favor of the Afghanistan war — I am no pacisfist. But the WaPo became an organ for war, whose writers and reporters would hear no dissent.
The Washington Post is a complete lost cause. I have hoped otherwise, but I have given up on them and written them off.
They are the Pravda of our times. They are so wedded to this Administration, and so incapable of admitting any wrongdoing, that they are wedded for good.
Let’s do an experiment, Bruce. There is VIDEO and AUDI0 PROOF that the Post is wrong about Cheney being booed, the minute he walked on the field. Will the Post budge? We’ll see, but my bet is no. If they cannot admit fallibility on this small question, I think my largeer point about their investment in the war is proven.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 am. . .then my larger point is proven. (space ran out)
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 amGuess what folks? I’m not going to be wearing my bowtie any more.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:47 amOn May 29, 2003, President Bush proudly trumpeted the supposed discovery of mobile bio-weapons labs in Iraq, declaring, “We have found the weapons of mass destruction.” As the Washington Post is now reporting, the President’s claim was not only untrue, but the administration knew it was false at the time Bush uttered it.
For the full story, see:
April 12th, 2006 at 3:05 am“Trailer Trash: Bush’s Bogus Bio-Weapons Claims.”
Off topic, but what’s Delay up to?
“Tom DeLay may look as though he’s finished because he is quitting Congress, facing a trial on felony political corruption charges in Texas and being targeted by federal prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff scandal. But that would be dead wrong: DeLay recently told one of his pastors that God wanted him to leave Congress in part because He has bigger plans for DeLay.
That pastor, the Rev. Rick Scarborough, introduced DeLay to a Christian conference just last week, saying, “This is a man, I believe, God has appointed … to represent righteousness in government.”
http://www.chron.com/ disp/ story.mpl/ editorial/ outlook/ 3788245.html
April 12th, 2006 at 3:34 am# 18 Lily; I think Tom DeLay represents righteousness in gov’t.How can you not?
April 12th, 2006 at 3:46 amNobles and Kings were deaf to booing people too in 1789’s France. I guess Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette knew of the French Revolution when the guillotine’s blade was falling…
April 12th, 2006 at 6:45 amFox’s sports bureau didn’t hide it. (as always, the best reporting is in sports)
“Cheney bood loudly” was the headline.
April 12th, 2006 at 6:59 amPlease, don’t say “muted”. Call for what it is: CENSORSHIP. Plain and crude. And it’s not the first time.
April 12th, 2006 at 7:04 am“until he jogged off”
When was the last time Dick ‘jogged’ anywhere?
April 12th, 2006 at 7:51 amBoo, hiss.
New York Bathrooms
April 12th, 2006 at 8:05 amI’m suprised the crowd didn’t throw their glasses / cups of liquid at him.
April 12th, 2006 at 8:32 amHelp the employees at the Post challenge the Post:
April 12th, 2006 at 8:45 am#20, yep, here ya go.
My respect for FOX sports just went up. I alwasy knew they were good, but never realized they were also independent.
April 12th, 2006 at 9:11 amBoo
April 12th, 2006 at 10:26 amHoo
Trolls are in the minority and I don’t think they can say otherwise without looking ridiculous. They have no message other than hate and the sky is falling. And as such, they should really start paying attention to the voice of America. We are tired of secretive, greedy, hateful, baffoons running our country.
Hint: Rush and O’Liely are sick people who are selling your party down the road. Hell, republican is damn near a bad word anymore. And really, if they are saying it here in TN, you can pretty much take it to the bank. It doesn’t get much redder (in many ways) than home of NASCAR.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:21 pmHorton hears a boo
April 12th, 2006 at 12:59 pmBy comparison, when Satan threw out the first pitch in 1957, he got a mixture of polite applause and jeering catcalls. Pol Pot got the same in 1974. And Hitler (who threw like a girl) was barely noticed when he threw the first pitch in ‘34.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:49 pmHarry Horton needs to be at Fenway when Damon returns.
April 12th, 2006 at 3:16 pmHOOREYY.BOOO.HOOREYY.BOOO.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:34 am