It’s Tuesday again!

It’s now been 380 days since John Kerry promised to release his military records. He has yet to do so in a manner that is completely public, where you and I can take a look at them…

Cao’s Blog has more…

The press is really pushing the question of timing. Why did it take so long. Why weren’t we informed immediately? Wah-wah-wah…

Update: Expose the Left has video…

Update 2: Full White House transcript here.

One reporter said:You’ve repeatedly said that the Vice President’s office will share this information with us. Will you tell us, will you now ask them to share this information with us because they’re not.
McClellan: Share what information?
Reporter: Details of what happened.
McClellan: I don’t know with the way you characterize…
Reporter:More infomation
McClellan: Mrs. Armstrong provided that information. She was an eyewitness to what took place.
Another Reporter:Someone from his office
Reporter: Why can’t we get someone from his office to answer these questions?
McClellan: Well, talk to his office. I think they have provided response to questions.
New Reporter: Is it proper for the Vice President to offer his resignation or has he offered his resignation?
McClellan: That’s an absurd question.

What a question. I knew that would be coming. I posted on it yesterday…
Then there’s this:

Reporter: Scott, when you consider the chronology that you’ve tried to go through here, and all of the various wrinkles of how long it took for the primary information that the Vice President was the person who shot this fellow to get through to the President himself, is there any notion here for reviewing your own communications apparatus? I mean, this is sort of reminiscent of the levee story frankly. You know?
McClellan: I’m sorry. I reject that. I disagree with that fully, Peter. I don’t know what you’re referring to. there, but I’ll reject the insinuation there.
Reporter: Well, when you look at how long it took for the information in that case to get through, the information in this case to get through, are you looking at….
McClellan: There are certain facts that you don’t know necessarily immediately. The people are getting that information together. In terms of exactly what happened. I don’t think you immediately know all the facts in situations that you bring up. And particularly in terms of a hurricane that was unprecedented in terms of the scope of the damage that occurred. So I don’t know how you can leap from here to there comparably.
Reporter: Well surely, they immediately knew that the Vice President of the United States shot someone.
McClellan: And you know what their immediate response was? To make sure he was getting the medical care. Well, no, no. You may know that, but people that are listening need to hear that too. The Vice President went over to him and making sure that his team was getting to him and taking care of him. That’s what the first priority always ought to be. Now I know that it’s important to inform the media. And I’ve told you I believe it’s important to get that information out as quickly as possible. Well I think he [President Bush] was informed in a relatively reasonable amount of time.

And another:

Reporter: Would this be much more serious if the man had died? Would that change the equation?
McClellan: Of course it would Connie. It would have been terrible. Personally, I don’t know him very well, but I know Mr. Whittington and I have great respect for him knowing who he is and what he’s done. It would be horrible news.

What a group of people…

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Newsbusters reports that ABC used the shooting accident to take a shot at Justice Scalia. You’ll remember that the Justice went hunting with Vice President Cheney and then refused to recuse himself when the Supreme Court heard the Sierra Club’s suit to force VP Cheney to reveal exactly who said what in energy policy meetings.

Newsbusters also reports that NBC was able to provide a somewhat longer report and didn’t resort to mentioning the old Sierra Club suit.

Breaking News: When Dick Cheney turned to shoot a bird at a hunting party yesterday, Austin attorney and friend Harry Whittington (78) was accidentally sprayed with some of the bird shot. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Corpus Christi and is doing fine.

Via Michelle Malkin:

AP/Breitbart:

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance.

Cheney’s spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.

What will they make of this? Some will call for banning quail hunting. Other’s will call for Cheney’s immediate arrest and conviction. They will also call for immediate impeachment if Cheney doesn’t immediately resign.

Fox News reports that Mr. Whittington came up behind Mr. Cheney and another hunter and did not advertise his presence behind them. Mr. Cheney turned to shoot a bird and some of the spray hit Mr. Whittington.

Our prayers are with Mr. Whittington for his speedy recovery.

Accidents are accidents.

Update: Fox News reports that Mr. Whittington was hit in the cheek, neck and chest. A hospital employee reports that the wounds are not serious.

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Bryan Preston put together a great movie of the path of the cartoons and riots.

Taqiyya means deception.

Via Michelle Malkin

Michelle was on Hannity and Colmes Tuesday night. Here follows the transcript.

Colmes: Deadly rioting continues tonight throughout the Muslim world over cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammed carried in European newspapers. Iran is one of the countries with the largest protests and today it’s leading newspaper announced a contest to find the best cartoons about the Holocaust. Joining us now are columnist Michelle Malkin and the author of Why They Don’t Hate Us University of California, Irvine, Professor of Islamic Studies Mark Levine.

Mark, what do you make of this? What should we be looking at here in terms of when we watch, see these kinds of protests, violent in many cases. And what do you make of it?

Levine: First of all thanks for having me back on and I think the first thing we need to do is not generalize. At most, one out of every 100,000 Muslims in the world is participating and maybe one out of every million are actually participating in some kind of violent way. So we don’t want to generalize this into some kind of clash of civilizations, which a lot of people wish it was, but which so far it hasn’t become. I’ll just tell you what happened in my house, when I first heard about this, the uproar last week, or the renewed uproar. I had a fairly well known Muslim religious scholar staying with me and the first thing he wanted to do, he said, “Let’s get on the web and see these things.” And when he looked at them, of course, supposedly Muslims aren’t supposed to look at depictions of Mohammed, he looked at them and he smiled, not because he thought they were good, but at how childish and crude they were. And, you know, this is the response of Muslim leaders all across the world. So we need to understand that this is, while they’re very newsworthy and it’s very catchy to see the flames and everything, it’s by no means the vast majority.

Colmes: Michelle Malkin, the news media, of course, is focusing on the violence and the people who are inciting violence as a result of this. And, as Mark points out, is a small percentage of the 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, and it’s unfortunate to use this to tag an entire race and group of people, an entire religion, as a violent religion, which it is not. Would you agree?

Malkin: Well, that’s not what I’m doing Alan. And I agree with Mr. Levine that we shouldn’t generalize. And one of the main problems with this entire debate is that the vast majority of people who are hearing about this conflagration have not actually seen all twelve cartoons. That’s why I published them on my website. And in the face of all these American newspapers and broadcast media outlets, that won’t publish them. And that’s why, in the interest of informed journalism, I brought all twelve with me today. If you actually look at all twelve in context, it’s absolutely clear that that these cartoons were not published by Jyllands-Posten to deliberately provoke or to denigrate the religion of Islam. Look at the first three top cartoons, they are completely innocuous, they are not “crude” as Mr. Levine described, don’t trust people who are describing the cartoons for you. Look at them for yourselves. There’s nothing wrong with those top three photographs. And, in fact, if you look at the other artwork, six of the twelve don’t even depict Mohammed. Four of the twelve are broaching directly the topic of intimidation of European artists in the face of radical Islam. And, yes, there’s the one at the bottom that everyone’s talking about with the bomb, to the extent that any American media publishes any of these cartoons at all, it’s always the one that’s arguably the most inflammatory, but even that one has a point and that is the hijacking of Islam by radicals and militants.
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