MEDIA IS BLATANTLY TRYING TO START A FEUD

While ABC's This Week featured the Bush VP, Dick Cheney, Meet the Press on NBC followed with Joe Biden, the current VP. Though they appeared on two different channels, NBC headlined on their site: "Joe Biden Tears Into Dick Cheney on Meet the Press" That was an interesting way to put it since Cheney was on This Week earlier than Biden. I would strongly urge the reader to check out this site, where you can watch all the videos discussing this today.

One commentator called it an unprecedented attack on Cheney! Biden was tactful, a gentleman throughout and only spoke the truth. If one would take the time to listen to all the video clips on this site, you will see the twisting (worse than the old parlor game of telephone) so that there is no longer an honest description of what was said by Biden. In fact, some of what he had said was cut out in one of the write-ups which indicated some pretty biased editing to me. As David Gregory worked to get Biden to blast back, Biden did not. He tactfully said that "Cheney is entitled to his opinion. He is not entitled to rewrite history. He is not entitled to his own 'facts'."

Cheney used the word 'credit' to the Obama administration for its current action in Afghanistan. Biden said he did not think they should be given 'credit', but that it was their 'responsibility'. Cheney wants waterboarding back in and Biden says no. Biden said Cheney was factually and substantively wrong. He questioned that he was either misinformed or uniformed. My own view is that neither is true...he just lies to say what suits him and will misinform the public who might be uninformed to that point...or Cheney sees the truth as misinformation since it is not what he wants people to think.

It is fascinating to see just how far the media will go to twist words and meanings and try to get a fight going. Both men have a history of losing their tempers and saying things they might later have regretted. Is that really what interviewers should be trying to have happen just for ratings? Whatever happened to journalists who wanted to help bring the truth before the citizen's eyes and help this democracy work like one? Shame on David Gregory. Tim Russert must be turning over in his grave.