Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Cheney Coverage Was 'Crap'
Former Sen. Alan Simpson blasted the media's obsessive reporting on Dick Cheney's hunting accident on Sunday, saying reporters typically focus on nothing but "controversy, crap and confusion."
"How are we to trust [the press], after a whole week of absolute dribble, and babble, and people, you know, interviewing themselves," he told "Fox News Sunday."
Noting that Washington is filled with "good people doing good things," Simspon fumed: "You'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion."
Simpson said reporters ignored the only real news in the Cheney story because of their cultural biases.
"There is a human element here that got lost in the perfect storm of people who don't like Cheney," he explained. "They don't like hunting. They don't like guns. They don't like people who kill birds and eat them. I mean, good grief."
Simpson also blasted top Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid for complaining that the Cheney incident illustrated the Bush administration's so-called penchant for secrecy.
"That's an interesting pitch," he told Fox News host Chris Wallace. "But we haven't had another 9/11, so something good must be going on with all this, quote, evil, secret stuff."
Former Sen. Alan Simpson blasted the media's obsessive reporting on Dick Cheney's hunting accident on Sunday, saying reporters typically focus on nothing but "controversy, crap and confusion."
"How are we to trust [the press], after a whole week of absolute dribble, and babble, and people, you know, interviewing themselves," he told "Fox News Sunday."
Noting that Washington is filled with "good people doing good things," Simspon fumed: "You'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good. All you get is controversy, crap and confusion."
Simpson said reporters ignored the only real news in the Cheney story because of their cultural biases.
"There is a human element here that got lost in the perfect storm of people who don't like Cheney," he explained. "They don't like hunting. They don't like guns. They don't like people who kill birds and eat them. I mean, good grief."
Simpson also blasted top Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid for complaining that the Cheney incident illustrated the Bush administration's so-called penchant for secrecy.
"That's an interesting pitch," he told Fox News host Chris Wallace. "But we haven't had another 9/11, so something good must be going on with all this, quote, evil, secret stuff."
