Cheney Guns Down Fellow Hunter In Cold Blood: (or something like that)

Good grief.

The White House Press Corps is completely off its rocker, appearing to believe that Vice President Dick Cheney did something as insidious as drive his car off a bridge with a female staffer, allowed her to drown while making no attempt to get help, and then contacted his lawyer before contacting the police.
An account of the events from USAToday.

Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, told The Associated Press that the accident occurred after Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of a car to shoot at a covey of quail.

She said Whittington went to retrieve a bird he shot. Cheney and the third hunter, whom she would not identify, walked to another spot and discovered a second covey of quail.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," said Armstrong, who was in the car.

"The vice president didn't see him," she said. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

One brave reporter questioned whether or not Cheney had committed a possible criminal offense. Another reporter, in a round-about-attempt to ask a question while still making political commentary at the White House briefing, compared the delay in public knowledge of the bird shot injury to the "news blackout" of Hurricane Katrina.

I can rest better at night knowing these brave journalistic soldiers are standing on a wall.