In an effort to keep the sensationalism alive, the MSM uses scary’headlines in order to mislead the public. I’m talking about the news that Harry Whittington, the 78 year-old lawyer who was accidently shot by Vice President Dick Cheney last weekend, suffered a heart attack this morning as a result of his injuries. Glancing at the wire reports, here’s what you read.

‘Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack’

Word pictures. What do you see when you read this? A group of doctors and nurses huddling around Mr. Whittington’s bed, yelling out codes and’instructions, while one of the doctors holds two paddles and screams ‘CLEAR!’ before slamming Whittington with a jolt of’electricity in the hopes of restarting his ‘no longer beating’ heart. After all, isn’t this what we see on NBC’s’‘ER’ every week?

On the contrary, it wasn’t like that at all.

Banko said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a pellet, and doctors performed a cardiac catheterization. Whittington expressed a desire to leave the hospital, but Banko said he would probably stay for another week to make sure more shot doesn’t move to other organs or to other part of his body.

“Some of the bird shot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart in what we would say is a minor heart attack,” Banko said in a news conference outside the hospital.

The doctors said Whittington did not experience symptoms of a heart attack or any other problems. They left the birdshot in place and said he could live a healthy life with it there.

David Blanchard, chief of emergency care, called it “a silent heart attack, an asymptomatic heart attack. He’s not had a heart attack in the traditional sense.”

But that’s not what the MSM wants you to know. Nope, in a weird twisted way, hands are wringing in newsrooms throughout the country, as if the media had a pool going on whether Whittington would survive the accident. After all, the story would really get interesting if he were to die, right? I can hear them now…

“Cheney would have to resign.”

“Or, better yet, he’d be sued for millions by Whittington’s wife.”

“Maybe criminal charges will be brought and Dick would GO TO JAIL!!! Yeah…oh please, oh please, let it be, let it be.”

Given the attitude of the wolf pack yesterday, I’m probably not very far off on this. The blood is still in the water and I’expect even more inflammatory headlines to surface in the days to come.

UPDATE: Just as I predicted. Via Drudge – The New York Times reports, CHENEY FACES GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IF MAN DIES… In Texas, Carlos Valdez, the district attorney in Kleberg County, said a fatality would immediately spur a new report from the local sheriff and, most likely, a grand jury investigation.

Others: Hugh Hewitt echos.