Posted by aogFriday, 17 February 2006 at 20:43 TrackBack Ping URL

Is my error the presumption of thought?

Via Brothers Judd we have this story:

The lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was discharged from a hospital Friday and told reporters he was deeply sorry for all the trouble Cheney had faced over the past week.

One wonders what the Old Media types who were in such a frenzy expected at this point. Wasn’t this the almost certain result, unless Whittington had died? What is left of the story when the person who got shot feels compelled to apologize to the shooter for the ill-behavior of Old Media? Were they just so consumed with partisanship and wounded egos that they were simply unable to envision this? I suspect that even this won’t change anything in the baying crowd, but the audience will no doubt take notice.