A stronger indicator that Cheney delayed with the news for so long because... he was still hoping it could be kept secret? Mary Matalin: First Cheney Statement for Press Did Not Admit He Was Shooter.
Portmanteau of "shotgun-incident-related schadenfreude."
see e.g. The Imperial (Vice) Presidency: "The shooting could hardly be a better metaphor for Cheney. It neatly packages his faulty judgment, insularity and arrogance in a story that is not cataclysmic on its own terms but will prove hard to forget."
P.S. hot tip: "schadenfreude" doesn't have anything to do with Freud. Nor does Shotgunfreude.
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