I have to agree with you, Cheney should have spoken to the police immediately. He should also have made a public announcement not later than the 24 hour mark. Sure, I like him too, but he couldn't have planned it worse for the media spinning. And as for the incident itself - Cheney is such a fool! Lesson #1 is no one, I mean NO ONE, should pull the trigger until they ID the target.
"He couldn't have planned it worse" unless he and Rove were trying to get attention away from NSA, Plame, Iraq, etc., right?
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"And as for the incident itself - Cheney is such a fool! Lesson #1 is no one, I mean NO ONE, should pull the trigger until they ID the target."
Cheyney ID'd the target--flushed quail. (Even lawyers, flapping their arms don't sound like quail flushing.) Too bad the lawyer was also in the line of fire.
What surprises me is that we haven't heard, once, that it was a terrifying semi-automatic assault shotgun, a favorite of terrorists and Elmer Fudd.