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

WorldNetDaily ^ | 2/14/06 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

 

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.

[Albion Wilde]

Verramente - parla l'Italiano?

[Howlin]

This you have got to read.

[kcvl]

barrys@newsobserver.com

[kcvl]

Barry Saunders employed by:




The Trotter Group
Black Voices in Commentary


W h o W e A r e

Columnists who 'can and will think black'

By DeWayne Wickham
USA Today/Gannett News Service


snip


DeWayne Wickham is a columnist for USA Today and the Gannett News Service.



http://www.trottergroup.com/about.htm

[DoughtyOne]

Pictured here, North Carolina Columnist propagandist
Barry Saunders demonstrates how to keep your feet
firmly on the ground while carrying a load for the MSM.

That's right, it's impossible.

Godfather?  Wow, that's an amazing stretch
even for the likes of our nation's leftist media players.

This can't be exclusively for domestic consumption.
Who would read this and actually lend credence to it?

There must be an opening on Peewee's play house.
Okay, well, perhaps this guy just didn't know that
show was cancelled years ago.

Well, that's as plausible as his story
and I'm sticking to it.

[ozzymandus]

Is this guy an affirmative action version of a "humor" columnist?

[Alia]

What else can the liberal Media-rati do BUT go into hysterics? What are they going to "negatively" cover about the Bush Admin? The successful WOT? The booming economy?The Dow-Jones?

Let things quiet down, and perhaps, some Democrat will slip on ice, split his pants, and the Dem Machinery can crank up again with "Bush Knew!"

[billbears]

Thank you. I live in the Raleigh area as well. Saunders has a point from time to time but for the most part the articles I've read from him have always been more sarcastic than anything else. Sometimes he's funny, sometimes not.

[TC Rider]

This is the same joker who claimed if he ever saw Clarence Thomas running down the street on fire, he would throw gasoline on him.

[TC Rider]

I must have missed the Michael Corleone quail-hunting scene at the end of the first Godfather.

Yet Michael's bodyguards in Sicily had shotguns!

[TC Rider]

I like the hat. Technically, though--- shouldn't it be tin foil?

As a resident of Raleigh, I can assure you that it is lined with tinfoil.

Barry has 3 templates for his columns.

1. Personal responsibility for blacks and black families, I actually have enjoyed some of these.

2. Tales of his unfortunate incarceration.

3. Whitey (republicans) are out to get us.

[TC Rider]

Thanks for the ping, I canceled my subscription long ago. It's nice to be reminded why.

[beckysueb]

I would think Dick Cheney was a better shot than that.