[Mb-civic] Cheney booed..Wash Post reports...

[Mike Blaxill]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/04/washington-post-whitewashes-story.html


Washington Post whitewashes story critical of
Cheney
by John in DC - 4/11/2006 07:34:00 PM

Is it any surprise?

The Washington Post is reporting that Cheney was
booed today at a baseball game for throwing out a
bad first pitch.

    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.

Uh, no.

According to the pool report from the game,
Cheney wasn't booed for throwig a bad pitch,
Cheney was booed from the moment he stepped out
onto the field. He was booed because the fans
don't like him, not because they simply didn't
like his pitch:

    Gorgeous day, 70 degrees with happy,
red-capped turnout est at 25k. VPOTUS stepped out
onto field dressed in khakis and a Nats bomber
jacket to the sound of thunderous boos and
catcalls, making Kerry’ welcome at the Dem
convention seem downright warm (spotted in the
crowd: a t-shirt upon which someone had scrawled,
‘don’t shoot me dick.’) Jeering may or may not
have disrupted the veep’s concentraton, but the
pitch — from about a yard in front of the mound —
was short, bouncing once before being reined in.

The jeering was BEFORE the pitch, that's why it
may have disrupted Cheney's concentration DURING
the pitch.

I'm sure it was yet another innocent mistake by
the Washington Post, like all their innocent
mistakes that continually rewrite history in the
Bush administration's favor.