shooting even makes Matt Cooper funny

“He might have had better aim if he’d served in Vietnam.”

So said Cooper on CBS News’ Early Show (he was “predicting” what late night comics would say—nice one, Matt). Cooper notes that these sorts of things can become a metaphor for an administration, and, it seems, we don’t have to wait for tonight’s Leno & Letterman. Here’s today’s LA Times:

The Bush White House and the president himself are known for limiting information to not only the press but also to members of Congress, as seen in the debate over the domestic surveillance program by the National Security Agency and the congressional investigation of the administration's handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Meanwhile, CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer reports Texas authorities are complaining that the Secret Service barred them from speaking to Cheney after the incident. Kenedy County Texas Sheriffs Lt. Juan Guzman said deputies first learned of the shooting when an ambulance was called.


(t.o.t.h. to firedoglake. And, they are all over the gun safety issues that arise from this canned shoot.)


Update: That old gray link just ain’t what it used to be. As reported over at fdl, and at many other places, the CBS link I provide above has been scrubbed. All references to Matt Cooper's prescient joke have been “disappeared.” Does this mean Matt’s sense of humor is gone for good, too? And, really, what in the sam hill is CBS up to? Don’t they know half the blogoshpere already copied the story?