The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The

Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On

Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced

as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according

to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the

brush,” and “everyone believed there were quail in the brush,” and

“while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that

today, Mr. Cheney insists he would still have shot Mr. Whittington in

the face.”