Did everyone see this? Just want to make sure. It was posted by "don't mention the war."
"Cheney's got a gun..."
Posted on 02/12/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by bayourant
Edited on 02/12/2006 2:10:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.
Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Whittington was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday.
Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.
"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.
"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.
"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.
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Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.
Somehow ....... that's a little funny line.
Nothing like a little seasoning.
Agreed. When the Mods get peeved they spring into action and the rest of us bolt for cover.
LOL!
I "have issues"?
YOU are the one who stuck his into someone else's debate, for the sole purpose of taking a cheap shot -- a personal attack, against a person you do NOT know.
I guarantee you would NOT do that in real life -- but the Magic of the Keyboard makes a lot of people into cocky, anti-social nose-tweakers.
Hey, whatever. I'm a big boy. Hell, I'm an old man!
What gets me about you "jumpers" though is the absurd mix of chip-on-shoulder bravado, combined with incredibly thin skin.
You think nothing of leaping into a discussion, to get in my face, and then spit in my face ("virtual") -- but, then, you grow all sniffy, offended that I would have he nerve to stand up to your abuse!
Thus, my original suggestion that you "get a life" -- to which I would at this point add that you might want to try getting out more. You know, meet some people in real life. Get away from the keyboard. Get into some social situations where you'll need to polish those "people skills" -- face-to-face situations, where you wouldn't DREAM of walking up to a stranger on a street corner, getting in his face, and insulting him.
But that's just a suggestion. I'm sure you'll do whatever it is you want to do.
But in any case, PLEASE try to grow a thicker skin, especialy if you intend to continue hijacking discussions for the purpose of insulting strangers. SOME strangers will take a stand!
Yep, that's the primer they follow all right. Knocking us dum-dums out, with the usual admonition "In the future, don't make a phos-phor-us again!"
The spinning has already started. The media will feast on this like the vultures they are.
What did 'ol Harry do? It's Cheney's last IOU!
He gonna take him down easy,
and say it was an acci-de-ent!
Those late night guys are sleazy
I know they're gonna tease me!
I 'aint ever gonna be the same...
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LOL....... gotta get Dan Quayle in there somewhere.
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Once again this is a open forum. Anyone is free to respond to anything and anyone they want to here. Now go and take your medication.
Cheney's got a gun
The bird dogs just outrun
this lawyer comin outta the sun
But man he had it comin
Now that Cheney's got a gun
Tort reform will never be the sa--a---me!
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It means you might not have a sense of humor.
Oh sure...I expect his so-called "friend" know something about the whole Haliburton set up. Cheney was just trying to keep him quiet. Huh? Doncha think? Wink Wink Say no more.
Did everyone see this? Just want to make sure. It was posted by "don't mention the war."
"Cheney's got a gun..."
can u imagine if this had entered the guys eye or even his brain? We would have having a new VP soon, a disaster considering how useful cheney is.
gop literally dodged a bullet.
True. We don't want to get our butts in a sling. They might put a tracer on our posts.
"They might put a tracer on our posts."
Absolutely. We should probably consider that would be an automatic reaction if we fired up the mods. We would be round-ly chastened, probably lead out of the thread altogether.
Maybe if the current VP took the FORMER VP on a hunting trip? Ok, people might get suspicious......
What's the difference between Liberal guns and Conservative guns?
Lib Rifles on the Lib guns spirals wildly to the Left and kick like a donkey.
Conservative guns have no rifling, because we don't shoot Libs to kill them politically--we make this mistake and then we kiss the hands that backslap us. We shoot blunder-busses.
(wish I WAS just being sarcastic)
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