Cheney

CNN (infamous for the black "X" over Cheney) is now attacking Cheney for going on Fox News:

For days, the White House news corps has pounded the Bush administration, demanding to learn more about Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting companion Saturday.

Cheney finally addressed the incident Wednesday, but the forum in which he chose to do so  --  in an exclusive interview with Fox News host Brit Hume  --  quickly became another source of contention.

Fox News executives cast the scoop as the result of persistence and the growing clout of the top-rated cable news network.

"We've been after the vice president since Sunday, as everyone has, and our efforts paid off," said John Moody, Fox's senior vice president for news editorial. "I think he wanted to make sure he got a fair interview and a good interview  --  good in the sense of thorough  --  and Brit is sort of the pre-eminent journalist in Washington right now."

But some Democrats and competing broadcasters charged that Cheney chose to speak only with Fox News because of a perception that the cable channel is sympathetic to the Republican administration. They called for the vice president to hold a news conference with the rest of the media.

"Now that he feels forced to talk, he wants to restrict the discussion to a friendly news outlet, guaranteeing no hard questions from the press corps," Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said in a statement.

On CNN, commentator Jack Cafferty called the interview "a little bit like Bonnie interviewing Clyde. ... I mean, running over there to the Fox network  --  talk about seeking a safe haven."

My two cents:  this whole thing is much ado about nothing.  Maybe I'm that way because I'm from South Dakota and occassionally hear of these accidents more often than those on the coasts.  This was, after all, and accident.  The man has taken full reponsability for his actions, what more does the MSM want? 

Check out Michelle Malkin column entitled "American clown journalism 101."  Hugh Hewitt also tears into Washington Post columnist David Igantius who tried to compare the hunting accident to Senator Kennedy's Chappaquiddick and Nixon's Watergate.  Tony Blankley also reviews the media's puerility in "The shooting party."