Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead (The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, January 23, 2004 | Mark Morford, "Yay Dick!"

[presidio9]

So then about a month ago the vice president of these beautiful and deeply confused United States, he of the struggling defibrillator and the shockingly nefarious wife and the gnarled calluses from working Dubya's puppet strings, he of the thin-lipped sneer that makes babies cry and women wince and foreign policies crumble like feta cheese in the freezer, well, Dick goes himself a-huntin'.

[CFC__VRWC]

Be sure to send that photo to this author, so he can choke on it.

Miss Morford wouldn't choke on that photo - forum rules and good manners prevent me from saying what she would do with it.

[AppyPappy]

Not for a shotgun. It is for a rifle.

[Capt. Tom]

From The Washington Post:,p. "John Kerry eats dove. Even better, he shoots them. From behind the stalks of a Southern cornfield, he'll watch them flutter and dart, and fire.

"You clean them. Let them hang. It takes three or four birds to have a meal," said the Massachusetts senator. "You might eat it at a picnic, cold roasted. I love dove."

"Dove, quail, duck, deer. Kerry described how to hunt and gut them, talking as he sliced through a steak at midnight after campaigning all day in Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination. Carve out the heart, he said over dinner, pull out the entrails and cut up the meat. Bad table manners, perhaps, or good politics. After Sept. 11, 2001, some Democrats argue, they can't take the White House if they sound like doves. That is not a problem for the dove hunter."

[Porterville]

It's been a long time since I've been hunting; I think I'll pick it back up and kill some deer... hmmm, what are the hunting seasons in California... anyone has a website listing the different seasons??

[Kenton]

"Mark Morford/Yay Dick!"

Yes, I'd heard that Mark Morford is quite fond of dick...

[CholeraJoe]

Is that a Parker side-by-side Kerry's holding? That's a $15,000 shotgun if it is.

[Kozak]

When's the open season on Left wing, socialist, whinny, obnoxious, San Fransisco writers? I wouldn't mind bagging a few of those, tame or wild....

[Texagirl4W]

And was Ted Kennedy there also?

[Riley]

Prior FR thread on the canned hunt.

Wondering when someone was going to mention that. My opinions haven't changed from then. To them however, I will add that Mark Morford needs to calm down a bit, and maybe hate a little less.

[greenwolf]

I wonder if the guy who wrote this ever eats fried chicken and, if he does, whether he kills the chickens himself according to fair-chase rules or puts out contracts on the poor chickens and has Frank Perdue croak them for him?

Any bets?

[KellyAdmirer]

What an individual, even one as highly placed as Dick Cheney, does for sport has nothing to do with what the "GOP wants." This is known in the trade as a cheap shot article. I could say that publishing cheap shot articles is characteristic of liberals, but that would be unfair - just as tarring and feathering a political party like this is unfair. These be bad days for San Francisco liberals, I guess they have to get their kicks where they can.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!

[FrankR]

Well....golllllleeeeee. Mr. Folksy has dun writ up a whallopin' tale 'bout the VP. I just think it wuz so cute how he spun them words around...just to make you think it wern't no "hit piece" or nothin'...but a liberal skunk by any other name, is still a liberal skunk.

BTW, kudos to whoever posted that picture of Kerry out a'huntin'...and I believe Mr. clinton was shown on TV a time or two out a'huntin'. But, that don't matter, ya see...the PETA people could care less what your shoot, if'n you're a liberal.

Them thar libs is so used to dealin' with them "metrosexuals" you unnerstand, they cain't wrap their feeble, immature brains around the concept of huntin'.

But, really, they could just say what they want to say, without trying to make it sound like a Lil Abner cartoon.

[Lancey Howard]

Be sure to send that photo to this author, so he can choke on it.

This guy probably has enough to choke on.

[presidio9]

[Irene Adler]

Re this article: More mush from the wimp.

[RandallFlagg]

Is that a Parker side-by-side Kerry's holding? That's a $15,000 shotgun if it is.

At least now we know that the pay raise they gave themselves went to good use...

[solo gringo]

you know what mark it a shame they didn't drop your #ss from the net.You could have been found in a pile of birds with more brains than you have.

[FormerLib]

Potatoes have feelings, too!

[pabianice]

Wow. Tough to write that much while you're choking on your own bile...