Dick Cheney, hunter extraordinaire
From the pages of The Onion... er, no... from the pages of the Post:
What can I possibly say in response to this? Hunting itself is quite ridiculous, in my view, but hunting quail is pretty much as lame as it gets. Is it really that challenging, that much a reflection of one's masculinity, to shoot defenceless little birds?
And then to shoot a hunting companion in the process?
Pathetic. Truly, utterly pathetic.
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Update: For more, see The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune's The Swamp, Editor & Publisher, Talking Points Memo, The Carpetbagger Report, TBogg, Booman Tribune, Firedoglake, and The Left Coaster.
As usual, The Moderate Voice has a great round-up (with updates).
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas...
What can I possibly say in response to this? Hunting itself is quite ridiculous, in my view, but hunting quail is pretty much as lame as it gets. Is it really that challenging, that much a reflection of one's masculinity, to shoot defenceless little birds?
And then to shoot a hunting companion in the process?
Pathetic. Truly, utterly pathetic.
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Update: For more, see The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune's The Swamp, Editor & Publisher, Talking Points Memo, The Carpetbagger Report, TBogg, Booman Tribune, Firedoglake, and The Left Coaster.
As usual, The Moderate Voice has a great round-up (with updates).
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
7:40 AM
3 Comments:
This story is certainly much needed comic relief, well, as much as a man shot in the face by the Vice President can be. I dare say the statistical probability of being shot by the VP is virtually impossible to 1. I can't help but giggle every time I contemplate it.
By
The (liberal)Girl Next Door, at 1:03 AM
Guns don't kill people. Vice-Presidents do.
By
Vivek Krishnamurthy, at 8:40 PM
Also note the irony that he was hunting Quayle, I mean quail...
By
Vivek Krishnamurthy, at 8:42 PM
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