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February 15, 2006

What the Hunting Accident Kerfuffle Is Really All About

Tony Blankley discusses an unexplored angle on the VP Cheney hunting accident.

In the absence of any pressing news these days -- other than Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia, the turning over of our East Coast ports to be managed by a United Arab Emirates firm, the criminal leaking of vital NSA secrets to the New York Times, Mexican military incursions across our southern border, the Iraqi crisis, Congress's refusal to deal with the developing financial collapse of Social Security and Medicare, inter alia -- the White House press corp has exploded in righteous fury over the question of the vice president's little shooting party last weekend.

As I understand the profound concern of the ever-alert White House reporters, they smell a constitutional crisis because the shooting party failed to alert the media of the accidental shooting down in Corpus Christi, Texas. Well, actually, they did alert the Corpus Christi media -- but that didn't count. Unless the exalted ones have been formally informed by an official government press secretary, no public communication has technically occurred.

For great commentary on the elitist groupthink that pervades the Washington press corps, read it all.

Posted by Jonathan R. on February 15, 2006 09:48 AM

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Typical conservative response. The VP nearly whacks his lawyer, and you blame the lawyer, or you blame the dog, or you blame the Washington Press Corps.

Always, always, alway with you guys. It's either God's Will or somebody elses fault.

Cheney should come out and tell the world how close he really was when he shot the guy (200 pellets lodged in his vitals from 90 feet? Sure thing). Until then he is a cowardly disgrace to his position and the nation.

Posted by: BigCityLib at February 15, 2006 10:51 AM

BigCityLib: You confuse the incident with the controversy. Nobody, least of all the VP, blamed anyone else for the accident. This column was about the media's reaction, not about the shooting itself. Take a breath and try to pay attention to the factual distinctions, which apparently do not exist in kosWorld.

Posted by: Jonathan R. at February 15, 2006 04:59 PM

Actually, the origonal "official story" was that Whittington got himself shot by standing in the wrong place. The purpose of the column was to shift the blame onto the Washington Press Corps for daring to even report the incident (because, apparently, GOPers shoot one another all the time). The fact that Cheney was on Fox yesterday, attempting to simulate human emotion, is a sign that this strategy failed.

In any case, we still need to know:

1) How much had Cheney been drinking? (Typically, if you wait a day to report an accident, it means you have to sober up)

2) How close was Whittington really standing? (You don't absorb 200 bits of birdshot from 90 feet)

The story doesn't end here.

Posted by: BigCityLib at February 16, 2006 06:11 AM