BUSH, PERTURBED THAT CHENEY NOT FORTHCOMING REGARDING HUNTING ACCIDENT, APPOINTS WALKER, TEXAS RANGER TO INVESTIGATE SHOOTING

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Bush, perturbed that his administration is being hurt because Vice President Cheney has not been forthcoming regarding the details of his hunting accident, today appointed Texas Ranger Cordell Walker to investigate the shooting. The President said that "should the Vice President continue to withhold information about this incident, Mr. Walker's wide array of martial arts skills should be sufficient to 'motivate' Mr. Cheney to recall details of the accident." Reached by phone at Texas Ranger headquarters in Dallas, Walker told a reporter that he "just returned from an eighteen month hitch interviewing enemy combatants at Abu Ghraib, and even the most hardened criminals start singing like canaries after I make them watch a few minutes of my television show." Walker said he "hoped it wouldn't come to that" with the Vice President.