Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter in Texas
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
WASHINGTON — Late night comedy stars are probably planning a slew of new jokes after news broke Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a hunting buddy.
Harry Whittington, 78, was hunting quail with Cheney on Armstrong Ranch in south Texas when Cheney sprayed his friend in the face and chest with the birdshot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Birdshot disperses a spray of small pellets rather than a single larger shotgun round.
According to Armstrong, who is friends with both theCheney'ss and the Whittingtons and set up the two for the hunting trip at her property, a group of hunters was traveling in a vehicle on the ranch when it spotted a covey of quail in the late afternoon.
Armstrong, who remained in the car, said Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and a 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
Armstrong told FOX News that Cheney, thinking he was the last hunter on the right of the party, turned and fired at a quail. Whittington was standing 30 yards away on lower ground with the sun to his back. He was knocked to the ground, but not knocked out. All members of the hunting party were wearing blaze orange, she said.
"The vice president didn't see him," Amstrong told The AP. "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 shots "broke the skin," Armstrong 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."
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
"It was just one of those things that unfortunately happens quite often when hunting," said Kathryn Garcia, who broke the news for the Caller-Times.
Armstrong said the vice president's emergency personnel team responded more quickly than she would have.
"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."
The rest of the story: Cheney Accidently Shoots Fellow Hunter in Texas
I'm sure you've all heard of this already. I just needed some time to do the research before I posted about it.
Whittington himself refused to make any comments out of respect for Cheney. Fox news thought it relevant (in a later article) to bring up the fact that in 1994, Bush accidently shot a bird on the endangered species list. (He paid the fine, but we thought we'd throw that in there for laughs.)
The Press Corps is having a huge fit because a small local newspaper in Texas was told before they were. What friggin' babies. I wouldn't tell them anything, and if Cheney wasn't legally obligated to do so, I'm sure he wouldn't have. As the story goes on, positive medical updates are given to the White House, but not immediately delivered to the public. The press, and other liberals, are infuriatedd by this. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev accused this administration of being the most secretive "in modern history."
"Talk about secrecy, the vice president accidentally shoots someone and keeps that a secret for nearly a day. That man, of course, is now very sick," Reid said. (Yeah, and how long did Clinton keep the Monica thing a secret?)
Fox news also has an entire story on IF Whittington dies. And that's a huge if. The guy is doing very well, but I suppose they had to add to the dramatics. Way to blow something out of proportion, guys.
The sheriff's office in Sarita, Texas (where the incident occurred) has closed the investigation, and no charges will be filed. Bush is also satisfied with Cheney's account of the events and according to Scott McClellan, so are the American people. A telephone survey of 1,000 people showed that 57% believe that Cheney's incident was just an embarrassing accident, while 27% believe it raises serious questions about his ability to serve as vice president. Interestingly, this electronic poll also shows that Republicans were "overwhelmingly unconcerned" while Democrats were split over the implications of the accident.
How can you be "overwhelmingly unconcerned"? I'd like to see a study on who has the lowest blood pressure out of the two parties. It could be that we just don't throw a big fit over every little thing that happens, that actual issues are the only things that conern us. Speaking for myself, my blood pressure has always been extremely healthy, even while I've been pregnant. Maybe the Democrats should take up yoga.
Unfortunately, I first had to hear about this in the forums. From a retard. Everybody took this opportunity to poke fun at the stupid Americans (if they were from another country) or to somehow make Bush look stupid. Yeah, I know. It doesn't make sense. They're just bored, misinformed kids, right? When the news hit that Whittington had had a silent heart attack due to a pellet being logged in one of his arteries, one of them falsely reported that it had been Cheney who'd had the heart attack. They all celebrated, hoping that he would die soon and put them all out of their misery. (Stupidly forgetting that they'd have one less Republican to make fun of, and that it wasn't even Cheney who'd had the heart attack) I might be pretty judgmental when it comes to these people, but I certainly don't wish death on any of them. Seems that when it comes to politics, some people forget that actual human lives are involved.
Like Clinton never made any mistakes. Bahahaha.
By the '08 elections, I will almost be wishing for a Democrat to be voted into office. Almost. Its like everyone has forgotten what a shitty job Clinton did. (More likely, they just don't know) I think I'd just like to gloat a little when a fresh new Democrat idiot is voted into office, royally screws us all, and people secretly wish for Bush back. I can't wait to point out how "so and so is such an idiot" like they are doing to us now. I know that's childish, and borderline treasonous when you think about the effects a Democrat would have on this country at this time. But...but...I just want to shove it in their faces.
What surprises me is that all the voters from southern states haven't caught on that the Democrats call them all inbred idiots just about every chance they get. That's where the original rumor came from that Bush was stupid, because he's from Texas and his brother's name is Jeb. The libs got a huge laugh out of that, and they do to this day, yet the southern voters don't call them out on their hate for the American people.
I wish Bush would really play stupid and "accidently" drop a nuke over in the Middle East. I hope it's the last thing he does right before he walks out of the White House doors in 2008.
That'll show 'em.
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