Our aim was true.

We set out to write a Blog Report free of any mentions of the Cheney Hunting Incident. Alas, the blogosphere refused to play along. It’s all, Media is bad, Cheney is good — mixed in with Media is bad, Cheney is also bad.

To Feztickle Drew at All Shook Down, “this is a watershed moment” for the press. Pointing to a passage from the AP’s report on Cheney’s Fox News interview — “Cheney said he was concerned that if the story broke Saturday night when information was still coming in, some reports may have been inaccurate since it was a complicated story that most journalists had never dealt with before” — Feztickle asks, “Does U.S. media retreat to their cribs with their soothers and Dick Cheney’s thumb stuck up their ass or do they actually grow a pair and counter this patronizing bullshit?” Feztickle, for one, stands ready to dismiss the media “as weak and feeble and piss-poor if they let a paternalistic condescension like that stand.”

Dr. Tom at The Moquol has a similar-yet-different read on the same AP passage. “See? Nothing sinister here: the vice president was just trying to protect journalists from inaccurate information.”

Of Cheney’s Fox News appearance last night, ArchPundit blogs that Cheney “finally gets it right,” but Fox’s Brit Hume, who interviewed Cheney, “not so much.” Exhibit A, according to ArchPundit, is this exchange: “Cheney on Fox via the Hotline Blog: ‘Ultimately, I’m the guy who pulled the trigger who fired the round that hit Harry… That’s the bottom the line. It was not Harry’s fault. You can’t blame anybody else. I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend. It’s a day...

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