{"id":4529,"date":"2006-02-14T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2006-02-14T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T16:16:03","slug":"comedy-central-on-cheneys-hunting-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4529","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central on Cheney\u2019s Hunting Mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"99\" height=\"86\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chenney.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of &#8220;The <\/p>\n<p>Daily Show,&#8221; the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On <\/p>\n<p>Monday night one of the show&#8217;s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced <\/p>\n<p>as a &#8220;vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,&#8221; said that &#8220;according <\/p>\n<p>to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the <\/p>\n<p>brush,&#8221; and &#8220;everyone believed there were quail in the brush,&#8221; and <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that <\/p>\n<p>today, Mr. Cheney insists he would still have shot Mr. Whittington in <\/p>\n<p>the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On Monday night <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4529\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chenney.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"99\" height=\"86\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-people"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}