Cafferty: Hume interviewing Cheney "like Bonnie interviewing Clyde"

During the February 15 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN anchor Jack Cafferty told Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer that Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with Fox News host Brit Hume on the "F-word network" (Fox News Channel) to discuss his February 11 accidental shooting of a hunting party companion "didn't exactly represent a profile in courage." Although Cafferty acknowledged that he had not seen the interview, which had yet to be released in full, he nonetheless asserted that the fact that Cheney interviewed exclusively with Hume was "a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde." When Blitzer asked if Cafferty thought Cheney "still needs to do a full-scale news conference," Cafferty replied: "That's never going to happen." He insisted, however, that "running over there to the Fox network" was "seeking a safe haven" because Cheney will not "get any high, hard ones from anybody at the F-word network." Read more