The late reporting of Cheney's hunting accident

Dallas Morning News | Mark Davis:

“I did not learn of Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident until a friend mentioned it to me late Sunday afternoon. I asked the normal first question:
‘When did it happen?’
‘Yesterday,’ he told me.
Uh-oh. ... A press release. A 30-second announcement. Either one of these at midnight Saturday, and this is the non-story it deserves to be. But in the absence of that, the administration has received a public spanking that it pains me to say it deserves. Thank heaven these people run a war better than a hunting accident. ”

Ed Cognoski responds:

Huh?!? A neocon Vice President on an illegal hunting expedition almost kills someone; the White House stonewalls, refusing to inform the American people; when news finally leaks out, the VP refuses to take responsibility, refuses even to talk; the VP's apologists blame the victim, even the victim's dog.

And Mark Davis not only doesn't see a parallel between this event and the incompetent prosecution of the war in Iraq, he actually thanks heavens that "these people run a war better than a hunting accident." It's a sign that Bush and Cheney still have one talent as good as ever. That's the ability to pull the wool over the eyes of right-wing talk radio hosts.