Biggest Non-News Story of the Week

It must have been a slow news week, even with the Winter Olympics.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidently shot his friend while they were hunting last weekend. As a result, Mr. Whittington endured more media scrutiny than was called for. I'm not going to bother to link this story because it was that much of a non-news story. Instead, this post is intended to point out the questionable journalistic skills of our liberal media.

My wife's very life was threatened by illness when she was in the ICU two years ago. Did anyone call CNN? John Ashcroft's pancreatitis - a result of a gall bladder gone bad - was nothing compared to what S has had to endure. Yes, we alerted family and friends, and kept them updated. But we did not alert the media.

I'm not trivializing what happened to Mr. Whittington. I'm just trying to respect his privacy and his feelings. This was a hunting accident between two good friends which fortunately (for both of them) did not end up in tragedy. Period. Yet the media has treated this as the crime of the century.

There are those who criticize Cheney for not reporting this to the media sooner. Oh how conveniently the liberal media forgets the tragedy at Chappaquiddick! Senator Ted Kennedy not only failed to contact the media immediately - he failed to contact the police - and left Mary Jo Kopechne to die while he fabricated his alibi.