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Associated Press:
Man shot by Cheney has minor heart attack … CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack  —  The 78-year-old lawyer who Vice President Cheney accidentally shot in a hunting accident suffered a minor heart attack this morning after a piece of birdshot moved and lodged in his heart, doctors said.  —  Doctors treating Harry Whittington …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Update 22: White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap  —  The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it.  —  President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University …
CNN:
Hunter shot by Cheney has 'minor heart attack'  —  Doctors: Birdshot moved to Harry Whittington's heart  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) — The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.
Mike Allen / Time:
Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident  —  Word of the mishap took 20 hours to get out as the Vice President insisted on telling a local newspaper before everyone else, sources say … The Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter.
Associated Press:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet in his chest traveled to his heart, hospital officials said.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
McClellan Takes Aim at Cheney  —  After a not-entirely-successful effort on Monday to explain the vice president's hunting accident, press secretary Scott McClellan reloaded this morning and took aim at Dick Cheney himself.  —  President Bush, he announced, would be on the South Lawn …
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Mild Heart Attack  —  The 78-year-old lawyer who was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday suffered a mild heart attack today after bird shot migrated to his heart, doctors in South Texas said, and he underwent a successful catheterization to determine the extent of the damage.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
What Happens in Texas Hunting Accidents If You're Hispanic?
Discussion: The Sideshow and The Left Coaster
Michelle Malkin:
NEXT, THEY CAME FOR KFC  —  Much of the American mainstream media has grown bored with the story, but the Cartoon Jihad continues to boil over.  AP reports on the worst violence in the Islamists' pretextual protests against the Mohammed Cartoons today in Pakistan: … Reuters coverage here.
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Associated Press:
Two dead in Pakistan anti-cartoon rioting
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Jihad Watch
Asif Shahzad / Associated Press:   Protesters in Pakistan Target West
Media Matters for America:
If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005  —  Executive Summary  —  The Sunday-morning talk shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC are where the prevailing opinions are aired and tested, policymakers state their cases …
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Vaughn Ververs / News Blog:   It's How You're Labeled, Not What You Say That Counts in Media Bias Study
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Our Friend Al Gore  —  The man who came within a hair's breadth of the presidency in 2000 is denouncing his own government on foreign soil, the Associated Press reports: … There is a comical element to this, as Glenn Reynolds notes: "Only Al Gore could come …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and RightWinged.com
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Ian / Expose the Left:
Begala Pulls a Milbank, Dresses Up Like Cheney (VIDEO)  —  Begala spent the segment lambasting Cheney because he behaved "very negligently".  He says this on the basis that Cheney knew that Willington friend was missing, and it was his [Cheney's] responsibility to know that his friend was with him …
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Ottawa Watch:
Warren Kinsella Sues for One Hundred Bazillion Dollars*  —  *Actually, the Liberal lobbyist and self-styled political asskicker wants $600,000.  Should I write him a cheque or fight this thing?  Hmm... write a cheque... fight this thing???  —  Um, I think I'll fight it.  —  Looks like we're going to court, folks.
Discussion: Steve Janke, azerbic and Jay Currie
National Review:
Women We Love  —  Who are the women National Review Online types love?  That's a tall order.  Maybe just a list of "Women Who Make the World Better," including, of course, NR's Kate O'Beirne, would be a good enough start.  —  We asked some (male) bloggers, writers, and other friends …
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SALUTING THE 3RD ACR  —  Via email from a 3rd ACR family member, a letter from the Mayor of Tall 'Afar, Iraq to the men and women of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and their families. … Members of the Regiment are now returning home to Ft Carson, Colorado.
National Review:
Cons in Love  —  What is the most conservative love story ever told?  National Review Online asked some family and friends and here's what they came up with.  —  MYRNA BLYTH  —  My pick for a conservative love story?  How about John and Abigail Adams, that most American of couples …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Why Ann Coulter matters  —  (updated below)  —  Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds accuses me today of "degrad(ing) the blogosphere" because I wrote a post at Crooks & Liars observing that Reynolds had done nothing to denounce the violence-advocating and epithet-spewing remarks of Ann Coulter …
Discussion: Decision '08

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