Martini Republic » BushCo adopts damage-control strategy espoused by idiot: joke about shooting a man: "Here’s why — it’s sorta hard to make real funny cracks about shooting someone and causing a serious injury which has put the victim back into ICU with a heart attack, while a pellet from Cheney’s hilarious little boo-boo reportedly move closer towards the unfortunate man’s heart:

78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot in or touching his heart and he had ‘a silent heart attack’ Tuesday morning, hospital officials said.

Here’s what makes the administration’s yuk-yuk strategy all the more callous and stupid:

Hospital officials said they knew that Whittington had some birdshot near his heart ever since Cheney accidentally shot him Saturday evening while aiming for a quail. The pellet always was at risk of moving closer since scar tissue had not had time to harden and remain in place, they said.

Get that? They knew Whittington’s injuries had the potential to be fatal when Mehlman (or whoever) passed the ‘laugh it off’ talking point around the table."

(Via Martini Republic.)