Truespeak

Nearly two years ago, on June 9, 2004, I posted about a 1994 hunting trip taken by George W. Bush.

I was living in Texas in 1994 when George Bush ran for Governor against Ann Richards. They both went hunting (not together, although that could have been interesting) as a kind of PR stunt. Bush shot and killed a bird that was out of season and instead of acknowledging his mistake, he tried to sneak it into his game bag before anyone noticed. Needless to say, the media caught him.

(This event was documented in the movie "Bush's Brain," released in October, 2004.)

Ironically, this past weekend we saw another hunting incident, only this time it involved Five Deferment Cheney.

President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property's owner.

He was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi.

CBS News correspondent Joie Chen reports Whittington, 78, was hit in the cheek, neck and chest and is now in stable condition.

What do the two incidents have in common? In both cases, Bush and Cheney waited for the media to report the incident before coming clean. Which leaves me with two questions: How long would they have sat on this if the media hadn't found out? and How many things have these guys done that they're not telling us about because the media hasn't uncovered it yet?