Never cross Dick

...or it's your ass.

Vice 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.

Accident, huh?

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.

An attorney, no less. Hmmm....

Seriously, I'm glad Mr. Whittington is doing well. There's no question this was an accident. Having been quail hunting myself, I know that an accident like this is certainly possible (you're firing buck shot, which scatters--you need that when you're hunting small and fast prey). There's no question, though, that the moonbats will go ape shit over this.

UPDATE: Speaking of going ape shit.

UPDATED AGAIN: snicker! And here's a video of the press trying to spin it into a conspiracy.