From the LA Times:
Once it seemed clear that Austin, Texas, lawyer Harry Whittington would survive getting accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney, the incident became instant fodder for headline writers and comedians.
The foreign press zeroed in on the shooting as a metaphor for Cheney's political outlook.
The Herald in Scotland wrote, "Cheney Bags a Lawyer," while the Sydney Morning Herald headlined its online story "Cheney Hunts Quail and Everyone Else Ducks."
The blogosphere took its shots as well.
"Dick Cheney Finally Takes a Stand Against Trial Lawyers," declared the political blog Wonkette.
The public health blog Effect Measure said: "After the incident, the Vice quit for the day, as he'd bagged his limit of rich Republican contributors."
But it was the late-night comics who seemed like they couldn't get enough.
"Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction?. It's Dick Cheney," David Letterman said Monday on CBS' "Late Show." "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney.