Was vice president sending 'Godfather'-style message? (Leftist Wackos)

Columnist Barry Saunders

A North Carolina columnist claimed today Dick Cheney's shooting of friend Harry Whittington was not an accident, but was meant to be a message to his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, not to testify against the vice president in the Valerie Plame leak investigation.

"Accident my eye. Or rather, Harry Whittington's eye," writes Barry Saunders in the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer.

"If you believe it was just an accident that Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting companion last weekend, you obviously have never seen 'The Godfather' movies."

Continued Saunders in his column: "Just as surely as a fish wrapped in a bulletproof vest means 'Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes,' that shotgun blast to Whittington's face was meant to convey that I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby had better bite his tongue and forget about testifying against Cheney, his former boss, in the Valerie Plame spy case."

Libby has been indicted on federal charges he lied to investigators probing the leak of Plame's identity to the media. Last week, prosecutors reported he told a grand jury that superiors authorized him to disclose classified information to reporters because they were angered about Plame's husband's opposition to the Iraq war.

"A vice president who'll shoot an ally to get across his message of omerta – that's mobspeak for 'hush up' – may be considered a national disgrace by some," writes Saunders. "Not by me. I embrace the prospect of a lead-slingin' veep. Think of the impact Cheney's shot heard 'round the world will have on America's diplomatic efforts. When obstinate countries declare their unwillingness to negotiate with Secretary of State Condi Rice, all we have to do is roll out Deadeye Dick."

Whittington, Cheney's hunting buddy who was shot, had a mild heart attack today in the hospital where he is recovering from pellet wounds.

"Some of the bird shot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart in what we would say is a minor heart attack," Peter Banko, the administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial in Texas. told a news conference outside the hospital today.

41 posted on 02/14/2006 5:49:30 PM PST by Larry Lucido

No.

Different guy.

He's one of the things I miss least about living in Raleigh.

42 posted on 02/14/2006 5:50:03 PM PST by AlaninSA (It's one nation under God -- brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)

To: Common Sense 101

I don't know about Fredo, maybe Hyman Roth or Carlo Rizzi.

43 posted on 02/14/2006 5:51:02 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)

To: SmoothTalker; All

I'm inclined to agree with you, re Barry Saunders.
Pending any furthor complications in the health of poor Mr. Whittingdon....a hunting accident involving the VP of the USA is a natural topic for water cooler jokes and extensive political satire.

By everyone, everywhere.
I like Mr. Cheney very much, and respect him - almost as much as I respect Donald Rumsfield (who I adore)... here comes the but...
But this is funny!
And the topic is deliciously funny when mangled by liberals and ignorant reporters who haven't the faintest familiarity with guns or hunting in the first place, and confuse being accidentally hit with birdshot as equivalent to being on the receiving end of an "assault weapon". LOL!

44 posted on 02/14/2006 5:58:02 PM PST by sarasmom (I don't care who John Gault is, I just need his email address.)

To: Larry Lucido

45 posted on 02/14/2006 5:58:35 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)

"Godfather message?" NO. We all know it was a set-up orchestrated by Karl Rove, after he twisted Whittingtons arm to agree to be sprayed with bird shot. All to defelct attantiona way from the real corruption in the White House, Cheney's involvement in harming National Security by ordering "Scooter Libby" to destroy Valerie Plame and her family.

No message there, just everyday ordinary Republican corruption >>Sarcasm, ya'll<<

46 posted on 02/14/2006 6:01:30 PM PST by DakotaRed

We'll know for sure when Scooter wakes up with Helen Thomas's head on the pillow next to him.

PICTURES! Be sure to post the PICTURES!

With the appropriate warnings for the need of a barf bag, of course.

47 posted on 02/14/2006 6:19:47 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)

Again, I live in the Raleigh area. This guy is a humor columnist. He isn't funny but there is no way this is a serious column. Read the whole thing and then try to tell me he's serious. He isn't.

48 posted on 02/14/2006 6:20:35 PM PST by SmoothTalker

The VP's real name in Riccardo Cheni....

That's Riccardo Ceni - the Italian pronounces "Ce" like "ch" and "ch" like a "k".

49 posted on 02/14/2006 6:21:03 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Brokeback Mountain: "for once, the good guys get it in the end." -SNL)

...Helen Thomas's head on the pillow next to him. PICTURES! Be sure to post the PICTURES!

You're sick.

;)

50 posted on 02/14/2006 6:22:10 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic for religious freedom, not Islamofascistic multiculti PC secularism)

Why should Barry Saunders, who is obviously a pimp, be taken seriously?

51 posted on 02/14/2006 6:23:25 PM PST by nwrep

To: Wally_Kalbacken

"Further support for Murray & Here[r]nstein's "The Bell Curve"."
As if any further proof was needed.

52 posted on 02/14/2006 6:27:59 PM PST by GSlob

To: Albion Wilde

You are correct. Brainfart on my part.

53 posted on 02/14/2006 6:28:54 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)

54 posted on 02/14/2006 6:42:26 PM PST by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")

To: RegulatorCountry

This guy is Richard Cephalus (dick head)

55 posted on 02/14/2006 6:44:39 PM PST by Texas Songwriter

To: Incorrigible

ROFL. Good one.

We just can't do anything right, doggonit!

56 posted on 02/14/2006 6:47:07 PM PST by pollyannaish

To: Larry Lucido

57 posted on 02/14/2006 6:52:43 PM PST by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")

Think of the impact Cheney's shot heard 'round the world will have on America's diplomatic efforts. When obstinate countries declare their unwillingness to negotiate with Secretary of State Condi Rice, all we have to do is roll out Deadeye Dick."

That don't sound to bad to me.

58 posted on 02/14/2006 7:56:24 PM PST by shiva

To: RegulatorCountry

I would be cheaper to get a horse head!!!

59 posted on 02/14/2006 8:11:07 PM PST by Defendingliberty (www.gulagthebear.com)

Was vice president sending 'Godfather'-style message?

Message from the Godfather:

Wo! I feel good,
I knew that I wouldn't of
I feel good,
I knew that I wouldn't of
So good,
so good,
I got you

60 posted on 02/14/2006 8:11:26 PM PST by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)

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