The media has ★pored over[6] every aspect of the incident: the fact that Mr Cheney had failed to buy the proper stamp for his licence (he subsequently sent $7 to the requisite authorities); that his host was a lobbyist; that the White House initially tried the strategy of t________⑤the shooting as a joke. But one thing was almost entirely ignored—（4）the fact that Mr Cheney was spending his weekend slaughtering innocent birds in the first place.▲

媒体对整个事件方方面面都很关注：如切尼的捕猎许可证上缺少一个需要购买的印章（高地猎禽印章——译者注）（他后来已经给管理部门送去了7美元）；那个牧场女主人是个政治说客；白宫起初曾试图把这一事件当作笑话来处理。尽管如此，人们还是完全忽视了一个问题——事情归根究底在于切尼周末去打猎了。