Press Corp: Cheney was the shooter.

The transcript and audio of the White House press briefing today speaks volumes to the divide between the Washington elite and the rest of America.

I've excerpted some of my favorite questions.

An exchange with the ridiculously self-important David Gregory of NBC

Q All right, if I may then, the Chief of Staff, at 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., tells the President that there was an incident. Later in the evening, the Deputy Chief of Staff tells the President that the Vice President was, in fact, the shooter; is that what you're telling us?

MR. McCLELLAN: That's correct.

Q And then the further details, then, unfolded throughout the course of the early morning Sunday?

MR. McCLELLAN: That's correct, additional details, additional information was coming out.

Q On Sunday morning at 6:00 a.m., you were clear, personally, that the Vice President had, in fact, been the shooter?

MR. McCLELLAN: That's correct. That's correct.

Q Thank you.

Q Wait, wait, hold on. Human beings are not normally this inefficient. I mean, was the Vice President immediately clear that he had accidentally shot his friend, or not? Or did that information become available later? You make it seem like there's all this information that had to develop.

MR. McCLELLAN: I wouldn't suggest that at all. I'm sure that that was the case. I mean, Mrs. Armstrong was there and saw that --

Q I don't understand what information had to trickle in?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, David, again, what's important when it happened was to make sure the medical care was getting to --

Q Fair enough.

MR. McCLELLAN: -- Mr. Whittington.

Q Fair enough.

MR. McCLELLAN: That's where all the attention was focused, and making sure he was getting to the hospital --

Q That's been stipulated here. Everybody agrees that that's fine.

(THANKS, DAVID FOR DETERMINING WHAT IS AND ISN'T 'FINE.)

And some real winners from other reporters later on...

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MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Connie.

Q Is it proper for the Vice President to offer his resignation or has he offered his resignation --

MR. McCLELLAN: That's an absurd question. Go ahead, Ken.

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Q Scott, would this be much more serious if the man had died? Would that change the --

MR. McCLELLAN: Of course it would, Connie. It would have been terrible. Personally, I don't know him very well, but I know Mr. Whittington and I have great respect for him from knowing who he is and what he's done. And it would be horrible news.

Look, I think it is a big deal that the Vice President was in a hunting accident; and that he actually shot someone. But, there is not some sort of giant media black out conspiracy here. Moreover, a look at the complete transcript shows the national press corps' utter disdain for the 'local yokel press.'

Washington Post's Dana Milbank joked on MSNBC this evening that a manicurist in Kansas was going to release information regarding the Administration's environmental policy to the local rag there. As if a dingy cube in the Eisenhower Old Executive Office Building makes one the ultimate arbiter of what is news, and the sole vehicle by which the government can communicate to the masses.

Arrogance. Pure arrogance.

GOP3.com has a great take on this.

As does Boots and Sabers...

Charlie, of course...

And Real Debate has his own conspiracy theory.