All Intensive Purposes

Confederate Yankee got pretty irked that Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank appeared on MSNBC wearing an orange hunting vest to talk about the Cheney hunting accident. (I wouldn't have done it if I'd been Milbank.) So I'm sure he'll be livid that the White House isn't showing more class:

The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it. President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University of Texas championship football team that was visiting the White House shouldn't be confused for hunter's safety wear.

"The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the vice president may be there," joked White House press secretary Scott McClellan, following the lead of late-night television comedians. "That's why I'm wearing it."

AP story and graphic via TPM.