This wagged dog won't hunt


What's the fuss over Cheney's hunting accident?

Forgive my overuse and mixing of metaphors, but I just had to write a post with that title. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks the present fever swamp investigation over the whole hunting accident timeline is a little absurd. The press conference was a laugh riot, with reporters continually asking things like "at what time did you know VP Cheney was the shooter?" The Shooter? Cheney is now the fictitious man on the grassy knoll pumping rounds into someone? Honestly, is it so hard to believe this was an accident? If it was not an accident, don't you think it might be better to wait until you found some incriminating details and then fry the guy, so as to not make it seem you'd jump on anything just to be able to call the VP "the shooter"?

This feels like a bluffed bluff to me. Let's say you have figured out you have the best hand in poker, and there is some other guy dying to call you but who isn't convinced he has a better hand. You do what you can to make him think that you are bluffing in order to induce a call (Actually not too hard, due to what Mike Caro calls the "calling reflex" - people are usually looking for reasons to call, but I digress). If I wanted to put on my moonbat hat I would say that now would be the best chance for the Bush administration to cover up some nefarious deed, while the press is out chasing a dead end. I'm not saying this is a wag the dog moment, just that if the press goes so batpoop crazy over a story that is likely to be nothing more than a tragic accident it might not be that hard to feed them a non-sequitor from time to time to keep them from the real story.

Posted: Tue - February 14, 2006 at 09:20 AM | | | | | | |

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