Cheney's got a gun

This whole media swarm about Cheney shooting his hunting buddy illustrates really only two things A) The Bush public relations team is utterly incompetent and B) the media will stop at nothing to pin anything negative on the Bushies. This is THE biggest non-scandal in the sordid history of yellow-journalism. Should he have reported it earlier? Who knows. It probably wasn't their first concern to check in with the media. Probably the first concern was the man who was shot. I don't know.
I spoke with my father who has hunted birds his entire life (I've done a little bit, not much) and he said that this happens more often than people would ever imagine. He chided both Cheney and the target for failing to abide by hunting safety protocol, but said that all it takes is a minor lapse in judgement for this to happen. Quite frankly, if this had been a freak chainsaw accident, it would never have made the news. Guns are sexy and so it's a controversy. Final conclusion: Yawn, try again, media.