Posted on 02/14/2006 3:25:39 AM PST by advance_copy
The White House sought with little success on Monday to quell an uproar over why it took the better part of a day to disclose that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally wounded a fellow hunter in Texas on Saturday and why even President Bush initially got an incomplete report on the shooting. BLAH BLAH BLAH
The victim, Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer, was transferred from the intensive care unit to a private room in a Corpus Christi hospital on Monday. He was listed as stable, with wounds to his face, neck, chest and rib cage from the pellets sprayed at him from 30 yards away by Mr. Cheney's shotgun.
Calls to Mr. Whittington's room were routed to the hospital's marketing department, which said it was taking messages for him, but he did not return a call.
Texas officials said on Monday night that Mr. Cheney would be issued a warning citation for hunting without a proper game stamp on his license. The local sheriff said an investigation had concluded that the episode was "no more than an accident."
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Maybe we should bomb Tehran now...the MSM wouldn't notice...
I don't have any question...accident...end of story.
...maybe Cheney is a little trigger happy though..hehe ;)
The liars at the NYT won't bother to report that the Secret Service called the police within 20 minutes of the accident and cops determined there was no alcohol involved and it was indeed an accident.
aw feed him to the lions
"Maybe we should bomb Tehran now...the MSM wouldn't notice..."
LOL!! True!
OH, GOOD GRIEF, YOURSELF YOURSELF [Mark Steyn]
I'm reluctant to disparage John Podhoretz as some effete metrosexual Ethel Merman impersonator, being one myself. But I can't see how the hunting thing is going to hurt Cheney or the GOP. For one thing, even when they've got the bones of a case, you can always rely on the Democrats and the media to over-react and, in so doing, come across as a lot of prigs. Already, NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, has been huffin' an' a-puffin' all over the TV demanding answers - multiple answers - about why he had to wait 18 hours to hear about the accident. Who cares? A "sinister cover-up" has to boil down to more than not giving David Gregory a press release. And, given that the media's spent the last two weeks telling the public why they don't need to see these Danish cartoons, it's hard to take them seriously as sudden converts to the public's right to know every detail, if only when it comes to minor hunting accidents.
From an anecdotal survey of my part of the North Country, most guys see the Cheney business as an excuse to tell their own hunting stories, mostly of the been-there-done-(or-nearly-done)-that variety. I'm not saying I'm entirely on board with the line that real men shoot each other all the time without whining like a bunch of ninnies about what's no more than a healthy American male bonding experience. But on balance this is one of those no-scandal scandals where Democrat/media hysteria only underlines their estrangement from the average red-state male. If John disagrees, I'd be happy to argue it out with him on a hunting trip deep in the woods - or, if he doesn't trust me that far off the grid, we can shoot each other's Broadway cast albums off the back of the pick-up one weekend.
True. To the base, "Men Hunt" and "Real Men Hunt Lawyers". :)
Letterman's Top Ten (numbers 2 and 1 funny):
Top Ten Dick Cheney Excuses
10. "Heart palpitation caused trigger finger to spasm"
9. "Wanted to get the Iraq mess off the front page"
8. "Not enough Jim Beam"
7. "Trying to stop the spread of bird flu"
6. "I love to shoot people"
5. "Guy was making cracks about my lesbian daughter"
4. "I thought the guy was trying to go 'gay cowboy' on me"
3. "Excuse? I hit him, didn't I?"
2. "Until Democrats approve medicare reform, we have to make some tough choices for the elderly"
1. "Made a bet with Gretzky's wife"
They brought it on themselves. The press is unfriendly to begin with. When the next in line to the Presidency is involved in a shooting and they sit on it for 24 hours then you have to expect that this press corps will have a field day.
Where was the NY Times on the slow release by the White House about Vince Foster's death in Fort Marcy Park? Anyone have a LexisNexis account?
I daresay that was much more newsworthy than this tempest in a teapot.
David Gregory should have his WH press pass suspended for his rude behavior.
The press "field day" on this is only hastening their destruction. They look worse, to the majority of Americans, by how they're covering this.
Finger inside the trigger guard, I see. Yup, there's the guy I'm going to get my advice on firearms from. Yesiree.
Was he the especially rude reporter in McClellan's briefing yesterday?
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