Hiding behind the wrong Bush

It could have happened to anyone - but it didn't...
Firedoglake has the whole kit and kaboom-dle regarding the Cheney Friendly Fire incident including feedback from hunters and medical professionals. Suffice it to say: Cheney is the worst kind of hunter, the "blame the victim" line is not only bad form but most likely a lie, and the guy Cheney shot is probably hurt much worse than we are being told.

Poor baffled Scotty McClellan's attempt to cover for the shooter will be up soon ... until then Editor and Publisher has a recap ...

Also this means that the story probably has legs:
"We are concerned when an official of the United States is involved in a shooting and 24 hours passes without official word coming out," said Kathleen Carroll, Associated Press executive editor. "The vice president's office did not choose to announce it, go public with it. We are talking to everyone this morning about what happened, who is responsible, and the issues related to who should say something and why."

Queenie's Daughter wants to make one thing clear. All these years she's been living in Harlem people have been like "Isn't it dangerous?"
Well, we'll just say for the record that living in Harlem, NY is much safer than hanging out with the Vice President of the United States of America!!!

NOTE: as of 2/13/06 1:25 pm EST, Yahoo has taken the Cheney's Chappaquiddick story off it's front page to make room for this important breaking news:Cemetery of Keats, Shelley crumbling in Rome

Here are some Hunting Rules (tiara tip Crooks and Liars).