© Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com

The pellet wounds suffered by Vice President Cheney’s hunting companion Harry Whittington were mere scratches compared to the damage done to the egos – and reputations – of the crybabies in White House press corps. They have been mortally wounded, and the wounds are self-inflicted.

While the Democrats and the rest of the hate-Bush crowd are joyfully proclaiming the hunting accident as another nail in the administration’s coffin, it was the mainstream media who provoked the ire of most Americans who have been treated to a reality show of big media’s inflated egos.

Like the Democrats, the lords of the White House press room and their colleagues in the Washington press corps, have not the slightest idea of how their fellow Americans think and react. “Us folks” might just as well be alien creatures as far as they are concerned. They simply know darned little about the American people - those strange people who live in fly-over country and the red states - and what they do know makes then sniff dismissively about what they see as our ignorance and lack of what passes for class in their elitist ivory towers.

Now, thanks to a mis-aimed charge of tiny bird shot, the full extent of media childishness and snobbery has been put on display for all Americans to see. Huge numbers of Americans who have never once seen the White House press corps in action during White House press briefings have been treated to a display of petulance seldom seen outside of child care nurseries full of tired tots in need of naps.

Anybody who watched these self-ordained superior beings reveal their true natures must now realize how badly the nation is being served by those upon whom we rely to report the news.

They showed themselves to be spoiled brats and NBC’s David Gregory became the poster boy for their petulance. Gregory, a man with an ego so massive he can barely contain it, is admired for his flair for comedy. He is the class clown who frequently preens himself on the Don Imus MSNBC morning show where Mr. Imus, who should know better, feeds his voracious appetite for adulation.