The media were so successful convincing themselves the vice president should be charged for a hunting accident that they’ve been furiously poring over old, petty news trying to pin a charge on the president. Editor & Publisher breathlessly announces that they’ve found one:
It may not have been as serious as Vice President Dick Cheney shooting a friend in the face, but new details that have emerged about President George W. Bush’s bicycle accident in Scotland last July show that he, too, might have caused serious damage.
The Scotsman, a leading newspaper in Scotland, reported Sunday that it had obtained a police report on the early July accident when the president crashed into a Scottish police constable while cycling in the grounds of Gleneagles Hotel during the G8 summit. … the police officer (known in the report only as “Constable X”) ended up on crutches and was off work for more than three months….
John Scott, a human rights lawyer, said: “There’s certainly enough in this account for a charge of careless driving. Anyone else would have been warned for dangerous driving.”
