"Reliable Sources" | Washington Post
"It could have and should have gone away much quicker" if Vice President
Dick Cheney had handled it better, says former White House spokesman
Ari Fleischer. "I think the White House correspondents were right on this one. They did have a legitimate beef. They should have been told about it. But I think you can be right and still go bonkers, and I think that's what happened here. I think they've just made this too big a story, too much the focus, too much the flashpoint." (Fleischer appears in
Howard Kurtz's
column, too.)
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Rutten: Shooting is a story because it isn't a personal matter (LAT)
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Gregory, Gigot, Dowd, and Matalin discuss the flap with Russert (NBC)
