Okay, everyone know Vice-President Cheney accidentally shot someone in his hunting party over the weekend which doesn't look great on the evening news, but Josh Marshall points to another embarrassment; the effort by friends and supporters of Mr. Cheney to downplay the injuries of the man he shot.    Eyewitnesses would have you believe that Cheney's shotgun blast barely "broke the skin" of Mr. Whittington, yet Mr. Whittington's injuries are so minor that somehow he's still in an intensive care unit two days later? 

These people really need to put their energy into something else because covering Dick Cheney's ass at this point in his political career is definitely a lost cause.