DCist was watching the Michigan vs. Northwestern football game this afternoon at an L Street bar when ABC interrupted with a news flash that Vice President Cheney, who has survived four heart attacks, was at the George Washington University Hospital undergoing a host of tests due to shortness of breath.

When the Wolverines built up a comfortable lead by the fourth quarter (Michigan beat Northwestern, 42-20) we headed over to Washington Circle to see what was going on. And things were fairly quiet outside the Ronald Reagan Institute for Emergency Medicine, though there were a number of news crews parked on the sidewalk; camera operators were setting up tripods; and George Washington University undergrads looked a bit bewildered as they were walked by.

When DCist decided that there wasn’t much to see, we got on a 30-series bus to take us uptown. But that’s where the speculation of Cheney’s death started to get whisked into a mini-frenzy.

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