Raw Story: 'Beer quote' pulled from MSNBC Cheney hunting party article

[PhilipShore]

Raw Story
'Beer quote' pulled from MSNBC Cheney hunting party article
Ron Brynaert
February 15, 2006

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Beer_quote_pulled_from_MSNBC_Cheney_0215.html

An article at MSNBC's Website was edited to remove references to alcohol, that may have been available at a picnic, which preceded the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old lawyer by Vice President Cheney last Saturday, RAW STORY has learned.

The change to the article was quickly noticed by a number of liberal bloggers, and their readers, many of whom have been following this much discussed story very closely for the last few days.

In the article, credited to Aram Roston and the NBC Investigative Unit, Katherine Armstrong, a member of the family who own the ranch, revealed new details about her lobbying for the Bush Administration, and about circumstances surrounding the incident itself, which wasn't reported to the media until the following morning. Armstrong was the one who reported the news to a local news reporter, and she said that Cheney agreed with the decision.

The following paragraph was removed for unexplained reasons from the article sometime after it first was published on the Internet:

[Patsy Stone]

1. Yay, DU!

and :thumbsup: to FDL and the dear bloggers everywhere (bless their little liberal hearts :loveya:) for catching this moment of self-censorship.

:toast:

K&R.

[JohnnyCougar]

3. I caught it first!

http://robola.wordpress.com/2006/02/14/breaking-msnbc-scrubbing-cheney-alcohol-connection/

Not to brag or anything.

But PhillipShore was the one that posted the original atricle, so I would not have caught it without him!

[Patsy Stone]

5. Good on ya!

Thanks to all involved. I've edited my post. :)

[Canuckistanian]

2. Tease!

Sure, make me go and actually open the link. You know I love it.

[Canuckistanian]

4. CBS also scrubbed a whole section of a report

About the Secret Service preventing the cops from investigating.

Here it is:

CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer reports Texas authorities are complaining that the Secret Service barred them from speaking to Cheney after the incident. Kenedy County Texas Sheriffs Lt. Juan Guzman said deputies first learned of the shooting when an ambulance was called.

The Secret Service is looking into how the case was handled at the scene, Maer added.

Cheney was attending routine briefings Monday at the White House.

"It's clearly an accident, but the fact that the White House didn't release this information, that it sat around for almost a day is, in itself, bizarre," Time magazine's Matt Cooper told CBS News' The Early Show. "Late-night comics are going to be all over it. You know, these things — fairly or unfairly — tend to become a metaphor for a presidency and don't be surprised if you see lots of jokes about the vice president was trigger happy, or he might have had better aim if he'd served in Vietnam."

This is pretty damning stuff.

on edit: Got it from firedoglake:
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_firedoglake_archive.html#113988566147575524