Setting the record straight on hunting accidents

So, apparently this is just a little more than a little hunting accident. Firstly, it's been three days and the guy is still in the ICU. Also, some of the birdshot lodged in his heart and caused a heart attack.And the administration is treating this like a joke?

Ditto to what people have been saying about firearms. Top to bottom, the training is that you keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire, verify the safety of both your target area and the downrange, and you don't point a firearm - loaded or not - at anything you don't intend to fire at.

"I just had one beer." Isn't that what drunk drivers always say?1) We have no way to determine how many beers Cheney had had, and when he had had them, short of a blood-alcohol analysis performed at the time of the accident.2) The police were not allowed even the briefest contact with Cheney until hours later, long after whatever alcohol was in his system would have left it. Coverup? Draw your own conclusions, I guess.I don't see any indication that the police actually investigated a single thing.

Ah, right. "According to the best intelligence we had", Wittington was a quail. I guess that makes it totally fine, right?It was just an intelligence failure.

Well, no, not exactly. Cheney started out by blaming Wittington. Oh, wait, scratch that. Cheney didn't have the courage to come out and blame Wittington himself; he had to send four of his staffers out to blame Wittington first. No webpage found at provided URL: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007711.phpMurphy, fascinatingly, is under the impression that whatever the administration says can be believed, even when they've contradicted themselves in the space of 48 hours.

She wasn't there, wasn't a witness, which is of course why her first accounts were quickly contradicted. Well, actually her husband's story contradicted hers on several counts. Well, you tell me. Did Mrs. Armstrong come out immediately on her own? You don't believe that Scott McClellan is a member of the Bush administration?

Did you even read the article? He's mentioned prominently as the second attack dog loosed by the administration.Are you really trying to suggest that the President's press secretary isn't a member of the administration? Did you just not know who that guy was, or what?