Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Shot happens

Vice President Cheney shot a lawyer, and jokes are flying like a covey of quail. Mine is the header for this post.

(Well, I also suggested Cheney be given the Aaron Burr award for marksmanship.)

As Charles Krauthammer notes, even funnier than the intentional jokes is the hysterical reaction of the media, incensed at not having been notified immediately, if not sooner.

This news briefing got famously out of control (as a psychiatrist I found the groups I ran for inpatient schizophrenics far more civilized) over the new great issue of our time: Why was there a 14-hour delay in calling the press?

The press wants to be the channel through which all information flows to the public, and react hysterically to any challenge to this exalted position.

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