Why the Cheney shooting is a story:

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- If the vice president shot a man in the forest, would we hear about it?

Apparently a day later.

Well, it was more like a field than a forest, but you get the point. (Watch why secrecy has been Cheney's modus operandi -- 1:43)

Last Saturday, while out hunting quail, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot one of his hunting partners. The victim was Harry Whittington, a prominent lawyer and Cheney friend from Austin, Texas.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/mccaughan.cheney/index.html

[NashVegas]

1. Close But Not Quite There

The Cheney story is where it is because the DC press corps are furious they didn't get the scoop.

For the rest of us, it's a story because it's a remarkable analogy for the Iraq war. Cheney went off half-cocked and didn't see information he didn't really want to see. After he bungled it, he didn't want to give out information he didn't want anyone else to see.

[Arugula Latte]

4. And the arrogance, the lying, the spinning, the dismissive attitude,

the rudeness, the blame-the-victim stance are all metaphors for the administration from Day One. And just the fact that Cheney is out car hunting pen-raised tame birds tells you everything you need to know about him.

[mattclearing]

8. More like Cheney made up a buncha shit to justify doing what he wanted

to do anyway.

[Orrin_73]

2. Cheney's Law: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

:evilgrin:

Cheney's Law: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

[Catherine Vincent]

5. That should be on a bumper sticker!

[HereSince1628]

3. It's not the reckless hunting practice - -It's the cover-up.

Any careless hunter can unintentionally wound a hunting partner. It's not tremendously common but it happens every year.

It takes a conspiratorial mind to coordinate the use of government staff and a security detachment to hide it from public view and lie about it.

[Blue_Roses]

6. I think it's the callousness in which Cheney is handling it

to him Wittington is collateral damage while on his hunting trip. He really doesn't give a rat's ass about anything human.

[Dulcinea]

7. Agreed.

I don't think other people really exist in his universe.

Also, thanks to my secret admirer! :hi: