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A case of rabies.(The Week)(media coverage of Dick Cheney shooting incident)

National Review

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IF the vice president of the United States shoots someone, it is a story. This was true when Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton at Weehawken, and it remained true when Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington at the Armstrong Ranch. Hamilton died, Whittington lived; Burr took lethal aim, Cheney was aiming at a quail. The modern event is nevertheless news. Vice presidents have been accumulating responsibilities--campaigning in off years, conducting state visits, running policy task forces--for the last half-century. With these assignments comes visibility. Like it or not, those are the modern rules of the office. If Dick Cheney valued his privacy above all else, he could have ...

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