Dumbest Cheney Story Yet: Time Magazine and The Myth of the Hunt (and the Beer)

The dumbest story on the Cheney hit on Texas attorney Harry Whittington is the Time magazine article by Walter Kirn, The Myth of the Hunt: How the media has misfired on the Cheney accident:

...the greatest failure of the accident coverage has been its inability to convey, let alone fathom in the first place, just what goes on when people are chasing birds out in the middle of nowhere, in the brush, with dogs and other hunters on every side and adrenaline pumping through everybody's veins. It's a jittery, fluid situation. The coveys erupt without warning and they don't fly straight...

Yes, Walter, and that is why after they shot someone they wait almost a full day before reporting the shooting to law enforcement. And Walter, that's why the drinking cover-up is so critical.  As commentators have rightfully point out, a standard subterfuge after a drunk driving accident is to avoid law enforcement until the next day so that the alcohol has been metabolized out of the system and cannot be measured or proven.

Think about it.  If you were Dick Cheney and it was a straight-forward, clean accident with no cover-up, wouldn't you want to submit to the authorities immediately, so that like Caesar's wife, you were above suspicion?