Cheney shoots hunting partner

On CNN's website, I learned Vice President Dick Cheney "accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets."

Originally I published a post full of snarky jokes. But I decided it was unfair to the victim. Still, this sentence in CNN's story really burns me:

The incident "was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported locally by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday."