As you might have imagined...(w/additions)

...Jon Stewart and the boys at The Daily Show had some things to say about Dick Cheney shooting a 78-year-old-man in the face. If you missed it, Crooks and Liars' got the footage...

"Don't let your kids go hunting with the Vice President. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land or-energy regulations they're trying to get lifted. He'll shoot them in the face."

Oh, and Bush is now at 39%.

ETA: Say, remember how some people pretended to be upset with Bill Clinton for setting a bad example for kids in this country? Because no kid in puberty ever thought about giving or receiving oral sex until Clinton was Lewinskied.

Well, as Redd Hedd points out,

I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise, seeing that it is Dick Cheney and all...but still, what kind of message is [this] sending to the kids in this country?

"Go ahead and shoot your friends. Then blame them for getting in the way of the shot, and have a female friend deal with the press for you so you can hide behind her skirts and never have to accept any responsibility. Ever."

Nice.

How is the WH dealing with this mess? Apparently, the President, his Press Secretary and his staff have decided that when Dick Cheney shoots a man in the face, neck and chest with a shotgun, it's a laughing matter for the formal WH staff. Including the President.

Forbes:President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University of Texas championship football team that was visiting the White House shouldn't be confused for hunter's safety wear.

"The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the vice president may be there," joked White House press secretary Scott McClellan, following the lead of late-night television comedians. "That's why I'm wearing it."

The president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, took a similar jab after slapping an orange sticker on his chest from the Florida Farm Bureau that read, "No Farmers, No Food."

"I'm a little concerned that Dick Cheney is going to walk in," the governor cracked during an appearance in Tampa Monday.

And as Joe in AmericaBlog says,

I expect Jon Stewart and Jay Leno to make jokes about this incident. That's their job. But, for Scott McClellan and Jeb Bush to make fun of the whole thing is just creepy and incredibly unseemly.

Redd was right, above, I don't know why this should come as a surprise. We've been shown time and again that to the Bush administration, putting people's lives in danger is funny, funny, funny.

Leaking the name of a government agent, that was funny. The WMD fuckup, costing the lives of thousands of soldiers and who knows how many wounded, that was funny too.

Funny, funny.