The Press Finds an Angle
Want to know why the press is so upset about the Dick Cheney hunting accident story? There's an easy answer: they got scooped by bloggers again. By the time the MSM woke up on Monday morning the story had been broken, and worse yet conservative bloggers stole all their punchlines. Before they could even finish their double-frappa-latte-grande all that could be said had already been posted all over the internet, including every wild conspiracy theory imaginable. THERE WAS NO STORY LEFT!
No story unless, of course, the vice president were to resign in shame. So they tried that angle, and crowed over his failure to purchase a $7 hunting license. Forgive me, but he was hunting on a game farm (private property). In some cases the law is different for hunting on a registered game farm, he may yet find a legal loophole for this faux pas (that would be pretty sweet).
In an effort to blow this story sky high the media is on death watch, as evidenced by the latest headline: Hunter Has Heart Attack. Keep your pants on though, it's not what you think.
Whittington suffered a "silent heart attack" — obstructed blood flow, but without the classic heart-attack symptoms of pain and pressure, according to doctors at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.
A silent heart attack? Couldn't this be attributed to normal complications involved with being sprayed by bird shot? Nope. Heart Attack has a better ring to it.
The doctors said they decided to treat the situation conservatively and leave the pellet alone rather than operate to remove it. They said they are highly optimistic Whittington will recover and live a healthy life with the pellet in him.
If I were Dick Cheney, I would demand that they remove the pellet, let me autograph it, and then have it reinserted.
Hospital officials said they were not concerned about the six to 200 other pieces of birdshot that might still be lodged in Whittington's body. Cheney was using 7 1/2 shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets are typically made of steel or lead; the pellets in 7 1/2 shot are just under a tenth of an inch in diameter.
Lead? Hey, trial lawers: Wisconsin is a friend of lead lawsuits. I'll bet you don't even need to prove the stuff was made here.
No story unless, of course, the vice president were to resign in shame. So they tried that angle, and crowed over his failure to purchase a $7 hunting license. Forgive me, but he was hunting on a game farm (private property). In some cases the law is different for hunting on a registered game farm, he may yet find a legal loophole for this faux pas (that would be pretty sweet).
In an effort to blow this story sky high the media is on death watch, as evidenced by the latest headline: Hunter Has Heart Attack. Keep your pants on though, it's not what you think.
Whittington suffered a "silent heart attack" — obstructed blood flow, but without the classic heart-attack symptoms of pain and pressure, according to doctors at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.
A silent heart attack? Couldn't this be attributed to normal complications involved with being sprayed by bird shot? Nope. Heart Attack has a better ring to it.
The doctors said they decided to treat the situation conservatively and leave the pellet alone rather than operate to remove it. They said they are highly optimistic Whittington will recover and live a healthy life with the pellet in him.
If I were Dick Cheney, I would demand that they remove the pellet, let me autograph it, and then have it reinserted.
Hospital officials said they were not concerned about the six to 200 other pieces of birdshot that might still be lodged in Whittington's body. Cheney was using 7 1/2 shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets are typically made of steel or lead; the pellets in 7 1/2 shot are just under a tenth of an inch in diameter.
Lead? Hey, trial lawers: Wisconsin is a friend of lead lawsuits. I'll bet you don't even need to prove the stuff was made here.
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