Of course, no one except maybe the MSM expected anything else. This story by MSNBC is actually very good. They even cover the fact of why the story went out the way it did. Cheney did not trust the MSM to accurately report a hunting story - especially after the first reporter contacted didn’t understand the difference between a shotgun shell and a rifle slug.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Whittington was still in intensive care Wednesday, but only for personal privacy reasons, said Peter Banko, administrator of Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. [I would add that he is sitting up, eating, and even doing some legal work].
“He’s doing extremely well right now,” Banko said. His doctors have said they are highly optimistic about his recovery.
Through hospital officials, Whittington has declined to comment.
“He still kind of wonders what all the hoopla is about,” Banko said. He said Whittington sees it as “much ado about nothing”.
Cheney was using No. 7½ shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets typically are made of steel or lead; the pellets in No. 7½ shot are just under one-tenth of an inch in diameter.”
I assume the 28 gauge is due to Cheney’s pacemaker. That is about the smallest gauge around, but still fine for quail.
I think one thing lost in this story about “reticence” of both men is that these men are of a generation before men became all sensitive and wussified. They’re not hiding anything, they just don’t see the big deal and they’re not used to talking about themselves at length. That said, Harry “I covered up my own stroke for three days” Reid is also of that generation and he loves to talk.
Scrappleface weighs in with a typically-hilarious observation.