Cheers greet Dick Cheney:

Cheney made his first public appearance since the shooting, receiving a rousing ovation from legislators in his home state of Wyoming.

“It’s a wonderful experience to be greeted by such warmth by the leaders of our great state. It’s especially true when you’ve had a very long week,” Cheney told lawmakers in Cheyenne.

Well, thank goodness for that. I know that Dick Cheney is a man that (if possible) is even more despised than George Bush, but for goodness’ sake, to try and create a political event out of a hunting accident is pitiful. I haven’t even bothered blogging about it because I didn’t know what there was to say. Quails: 1; Lawyers: 0? Remember to load your guns with cotton balls?

Besides, who in the world thought we’d still be talking about this every day for a week? Is there anyone who honestly thinks that if we weren’t living in this ludicrously politically-charged atmosphere, there’d be any reason to make a stink out of this? The mad scramble to try to turn this unfortunate accident into a scandal has made the scramblers look unhinged.

And arrogant. The early shriek from the MSM coming from the fact that the story wasn’t immediately given to them, that they had to read about it in a small Corpus Christi newspaper made them look like strutting, fuming infants.

Think I’m overstating it? Consider this exchange when White House press secretary Scott McClellan tried to kid NBC correspondent Dave Gregory during a press conference:

McClellan: “David, hold on, the cameras aren’t on right now. You can do this later.”

Gregory: “Don’t accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras. Don’t be a jerk to me personally when I’m asking you a serious question.”

McClellan: “You don’t have to yell.”

Gregory: “I will yell! If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don’t appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that’s wrong!”

McClellan: “Calm down, Dave, calm down.”

Gregory: “I’ll calm down when I feel like calming down!”

Um, yeah. McClellan is being a jerk. It’s like a scene that they didn’t use in “The Young and the Restless” because the dialogue wasn’t believable enough. The press has been wanting all America to get mad about this for a solid week. As if the rest of us don’t have jobs to do, and ones that seldom involve other people doing our jobs for us.

But I wish the worst of it was that it was clownish. It seems much worse than that to me, because what they choose to get mad about is showing a vast amount of hypocrisy. As Charles Krauthammer puts it:

Secrecy? This was hardly an affair of state. And it was hardly going to be kept secret. Arrogance? The media laying these charges are the same media that just last week unilaterally decided that the public’s right to know did not extend to seeing cartoons that had aroused half the world, burned a small part of it and deeply affected the American national interest. Having arrogated to themselves the judgment of what a free people should be allowed to see regarding an issue that is literally burning, they then go ballistic over a few hours’ delay in revealing an accident with only the most trivial connection to the nation’s interest or purpose.