Matt Ortega

The whirlwind of discussion on the left after Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap is interesting to read. Jane Hamsher reminds us of Cheney’s election-year rhetoric.

That just takes the whole fun out of it. I am reminded of a hilarious Chuck Norris fact: “Chuck Norris does not hunt. Hunting infers failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.” The same is true of Bush/Cheney, apparently, and not because the two are tremendous hunters/fishermen, but because the odds are stacked so much in their favor, failure is virtually an impossibility. Sounds like GOP politics to me.

Updated on 02/12/06 at 12:20am: Apparently Cheney’s office nor the White House wanted anybody to know about the shooting.

The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday. E&P has learned that the official confirmation of the shooting came about only after a local reporter in Corpus Christi, Texas, received a tip from the owner of the property where the shooting occurred and called Vice President Cheney’s office for confirmation.The confirmation was made but there was no indication whether the Vice President’s office, the White House, or anyone else intended to announce the shooting if the reporter, Jaime Powell of the Corpus Christ Caller-Times, had not received word from the ranch owner.