Batfink's Beep -- 02-13-06

Read it, ye comedians, and despair

February 13, 2006

I have to admit: after I was comfortably sure that Vice President Cheney's hunting buddy was going to be fine, I thought the story was pretty funny. In case you hadn't heard yet, the Veep, on a quail hunting expedition with some friends over the weekend, accidentally bounced some bird shot off of one of his fellow hunters, who had apparently strayed from his planned position and ended up down-range from the VP just when the small game they were after decided to break cover. Certainly, I thought, this would be a boon for comedians. And it has been, sort of -- Jay Leno had his fun. So did David Letterman. And it was funny.

But once again, life has shown that even these professional funnymen can't out-funny the unintentionally funny; The far greater laugh has been the sight of the Democrat party and their mouthpieces in the White House press corps, doing their best to gin up a scandal of some sort. NBC's David Gregory was actually screaming at Scott McLellan's press briefing. Someone was heard to ask if the VP was going to resign.

That's right -- they called for Cheney's resignation on account of a minor hunting accident in which nobody was seriously injured. Someone even asked if, perhaps, an accidental shooting while hunting might be a crime in Texas. He wasn't kidding, either.

I thought I'd die laughing.

And it didn't even end with that. Gun-control nuts James and Sarah Brady felt called upon to rush out a press release, on a weekend, to say, among other crazy things, that the Vice President wanted to shoot Mr. Brady:

"Now I understand why Dick Cheney keeps asking me to go hunting with him. I had a friend once who accidentally shot pellets into his dog - and I thought he was an idiot."

That from the people who think we should take them seriously on the serious matter of our Second Amendment rights. Your heart might break for these poor deluded souls, if it weren't so damn funny. And still there's more, all over the port side of the blogosphere; it seems that, the Scooter Libby thing having gone nowhere, this is now the latest big hope to finally tag 'the brains behind the Bush Administration'.

I'm beginning to think that, if the time ever comes where there is actually some sort of wrongdoing on the part of either Bush or Cheney, or Karl Rove, for matter of that, the left will have melted down too many times for the hoo-ha that gets made over it to be taken seriously. How do you parody this sort of thing, anyway? When an obvious accident (and nobody seriously suggests otherwise, the Brady statement notwithstanding) with immediate medical help standing ready and no serious injury done, generates a feeding frenzy of this sort, culminating in frantic partisans from the press with delusions of credibility actually trying to tease out some suggestion of criminal fault, the professional comedians might as well just give up.

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