"The Daily Show" wins hands down (whatever that means!) with this quip from Rob Corddry paraphrased in part by columnist Ellen Goodman:

The Vice President, he intoned, was following the best intelligence that said there were quail in the bush. Of course, the quail turned out to be the 78-year-old man, but "even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists - he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face."

So much for my morning coffee and the rest of that page!

However, I'm firmly convinced that Mr. Chaney was most upset when he realized what he had done:

Indeed, this old friend was no quail,
And his face turned a whiter shade of pale!

I bet this could be put to a tune...

Charley Ignoble