The funny papers

Yes, we all found Dick "License to Kill" Cheney's Elmer Fudd impersonation over the weekend pretty funny. And I'm glad preznit & co. are getting a kick out of it too.

After a not-entirely-successful effort on Monday to explain the vice president's hunting accident, press secretary Scott McClellan reloaded this morning and took aim at Dick Cheney himself.

President Bush, he announced, would be on the South Lawn with the national champion University of Texas football team. "The orange they're wearing is not because they are concerned that the vice president will be there," he deadpanned.

The reporters, so recently his tormenters, guffawed. "Although," he continued, pointing to his orange tie, "that's why I'm wearing it, so hopefully none of y'all will --''

Har, har.

Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack

By Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 14, 2006; 2:03 PM

The 78-year-old lawyer who Vice President Cheney accidentally shot in a hunting accident suffered a minor heart attack this morning after a piece of birdshot moved and lodged in his heart, doctors said.

Doctors treating Harry Whittington said the Republican lawyer was moved back into the intensive care unit and will need to remain hospitalized for at least a week.

"Some of the birdshot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart," Peter Banko, spokesman for Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital, told reporters outside the Corpus Christi hospital. Banko said the birdshot caused a minor heart attack.

Asked if the birdshot could move more and endanger Whittington's life, Dr. David Blanchard, emergency room chief at the hospital, said: "When birdshot is in your body, there's always the risk they can move. We'll watch very closely for any migration."

Blanchard said what happened to Whittington was extremely rare. He said cardiologists may see a similar case only once or twice in their lifetimes.

Wonder if Cheney will see fit to make a statement if the man dies.