We still don’t know if Jim Webb is as good at shooting lawyers as Dick Cheney, but Dana Milbank’s piece today does shed light on one question arising from his aide getting popped for carrying Webb’s firearm:

Webb even hinted that he ignores the District law requiring handguns to be registered. Asked if he considered himself above D.C. law, he said: “I’m not going to comment in any level in terms of how I provide for my own security,” he said.

Washingtonpost.com runs a Peter Baker story about President Bush cursing at the G-8 summit:

“What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over,” Bush says with his mouth full as he buttered a piece of bread.

Does Washingtonpost.com have precedence in explicity quoting Republican presidents saying this naughtiest of words?

Yes.  From its transcripts of Richard Nixon phone conversations, a 1973 conversation between Nixon and William P. Rogers:

Nixon: Hello.
Rogers: Hi, Mr. President.
N: Hi, Bill.
R: Gee, that was terrific. Really superb.
N: Don’t give me that shit, you know.

Things were a little tamer with the Washington Post before the Internet — when Harry Truman was stopping bucks in the White House.

In response to Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume’s harsh December 6, 1950, review of Margaret Truman’s singing performance at Constitution Hall, President Truman wrote: “you write such poppy-cock.”

Ken Rudin has done it again. The NPR political editor’s latest “Political Junkie” column recalls that Anne Armstrong, matriarch of the Armstrong Ranch — where Vice President Cheney had his hunting accident — was mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Gerald Ford in 1976. Rudin notes that a Gallup Poll question at the time asked, “Which of the following men would you like to see as Ford’s running mate,” and the list included Armstrong.

Extreme Mortman’s historian-on-retainer Richard Andrews remembers this 1956 incident involving Spain’s King Juan Carlos. His younger brother, the Infante Alfonso, died of a gunshot wound in Estroil Portugal, with Juan Carlos as the only witness. The official explanation is that it was an accident which occurred while cleaning a gun. Alfonso suffered from hemophilia and did not survive.

So the big-feet media are all upset over being scooped by a tiny local paper on the story about Dick Cheney shooting a guy (Wash Post editorial: “local reporter” .. White House reporter: “tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper, and not the White House press corps at large…”). So if the big media are so good, why haven’t they found out what happened to the clay duck that got away?