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Actually shot someone, and then just hoped nobody would find out.
Apparently, this was only 2nd-page news in the US today. Hello! Your second-in-command seriously injured someone with a rifle? Is this the kind of wacko you want running your country? Can you imagine if a UK politician did this, how quickly he would be gone? But in the US it's barely even a scandal that he tried to cover it up, far less that he shot someone in the first place.
The United States is fucking crazy.
Update: And if ignoring it doesn't work, why not joke about it? Because it's not like the guy may die from his wounds right? Oh? Oh. [via Ed]
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ed
1. If you don't have a problem with him being out hunting to begin with, you can't really have much of a problem with the accident. These things happen.
2. To be fair, there hasn't really been a "cover-up." They've dealt with it distastefully by trying to blame the victim, but that's SOP for these people -- we know they have no decency. They didn't come running to the press, but, honestly, I don't see the big deal with that.
Frankly, unlike the Plame stuff or the Abramoff stuff or the Katrina stuff or the Iraq stuff, which are ACTUAL instances of terrible conduct/incompetence, this isn't really much of anything more than a wacky incident (and my, it is wacky.) I'm kind of glad that the media isn't preoccupied with it, as it would distract from the _real_ problems, which are plentiful.
ed