Mathews' Hardball and the Full Moon

Just finished watching Chris Mathews and David Gregory on MSNBC wringing their metaphorical hands and tut-tutting non-stop for about 15 minutes on the timeline, likely sequence of events, government philosophy behind, and possible intentional delay of the news that VP Cheney "peppered" a fellow quail-hunter with a 28 gauge shotgun.

There is obviously a Full Moon tonight, and Mathews was characteristically shouting and interrupting his guests, except for Sen. Alan Simpson, who uttered the great truth that the press uproar and furore about this non-event was simply a result of the White House Press's disdain for Cheney, which Cheney returns in full at every opportunity.

Simpson said the fact that he had had two dozen phone calls from the press about this is "NUTS." Mathews responded incorrectly that MSNBC was not nuts.

But Mathews went for another half-hour interviewing Bush-hater Pat Buchanan and dance student Ron Reagan about the rank carelessness of the White House not to immediately inform the press.

City slickers Mathews, Buchanan, Reagan and Gregory are clueless, of course, about the substance and importance of someone being hit with a 28 gauge, which is barely stronger than a BB-gun with multiple pellets----not dangerous unless you get one in the eye. Simpson explained how good a hunter Cheney was and how it was almost certainly the elderly 78-year old victim's fault for not informing the rest of the hunters that he was back in the line.

But the clueless urban cowboys kept acting like meth-heads in a sustained quiet rant about the neglect of the press and the "Peoples' right to know."

The word "kerfuffle" was probably invented for a more important event than this hunting accident.

Lots of sturm und drang, signifying, as usual, nothing.