Maybe it shouldn't surprise me, but it is just amazing to see the idiotic punditry on the news about the Cheney/Whittington hunting accident. It reminds me of junior high school girls gabbing about something one of their schoolmates messed up.
Talk about conspiracy theories.
From Paul Begala and Dana Milbank dressed in the worst hunting outfits I have ever seen to David Ignatius suggesting in his Washington Post column that the delay in reporting the accident to the press reminds him "of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969." Ignatius's column is titled "An Arrogance of Power."
I know Begala is a Democrat hack and Ignatius writes an op-ed, but isn't Milbank supposed to be a reporter? But nooooo, there's no media bias.
So Vice President Cheney, worried about the condition of the friend that he just accidentally shot, didn't think it was a big deal that the press should take a back seat for a while, and is getting hammered incessantly by those very same press idiots.
Is David Ignatius the only American who cannot tell the difference between calling the authorities and calling the press? I guess in Ignatius' world the press is the authorities.
The Post comes to the doorstep every Sunday....and the only section I read anymore is Sports.
I have hunted dove and quail in south Texas many times over the past 25 years, mostly with large groups of 20-50 hunters. We develop safe lines of fire and rules to keep people out of harms way. But accidents still happen. You can do everything in your power to avoid them, but the possibility of a mishap will always be there. That's why they are called accidents. Whenever an accident did happen during one of my trips, our first priority was to care for any injured individuals, get things and people settled down, report the event to the proper authorities, and then move forward. It sounds like that's exactly what the Armstrong hunting party did last weekend.
But if you listen to the lamestream media, and the frenzy of bloggers from the left, Vice President Cheney's accidental shooting of Harry Whittington and the subsequent delay in reporting it to the lamestream media is just another example of the culture of corruption, the arrogance of power, and the secretive nature of this Bush administration.
To bad the idiots coming out of the woods weren't afield in south Texas last Saturday afternoon.
LATER (February 19, 2006 10:07a ET): Here's Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun-Times with more on the Post's David Ignatius-
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969."
Hmm. Let's see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory's make-up girl!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius' insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot.
As usual, Mr. Steyn hits the nail right on the head. From RCP.
LATER 2 (February 19, 2005 7:09p ET): Michelle Malkin has a new post and links to FNC's interview today of former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming saying this about the Washington media-
"But let me tell you, you'll never find it if you just follow the Washington media. You'll never know the good -- all you'll get is controversy, crap, and confusion."
Michelle's post is titled "Cheney Derangement Syndrome."
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