I’d point out that, according to the hospital spokesman and doctor at this morning’s, press conference, this was an asymptomatic (silent) heart attack caused by a piece of birdshot that migrated either through the bloodstream or managed to get through a shallow portion of the chest cavity and caused an inflammation around the heart—and that complications (like infection), though a possiblity, are treatable—but why bother?
Because now the media has the story they want. The news channels, suddenly, are filled with morbid predictions of Mr Whittington’s imminent death, with doctors who have never seen the man calling into TV shows and offering diagnoses and prognoses—including one female doctor who FOXNews brought on as an expert who believes the Texas “doctors knew” about Mr Whittington’s “dire” condition and kept it a secret to avoid further “scandal”: we’ll call that “the Halliburton Hypothesis.”
How does this change things? Well, it doesn’t, really—except for Mr Whittington, of course, who has to be monitored for an extra week to make sure no further complications arise—but other than that, this is still the same hunting accident, with the same parties involved.
But that didn’t stop reporters, still on the blood trail, from hounding a pair of hospital spokesmen this morning over “when the White House was informed” about the silent heart attack (doctor’s themselves weren’t sure when it happened, because Mr Whittington had initially presented with an irregular heartbeat; but one doctor guestimated 6:30 or so this mornning)—because Scott McClellan didn’t mention it during his press briefings. Worse, as Forbes tells us, the “White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap”.
Did the White House know and keep this turn of events secret? If Whittingham dies, can authorities charge Dick Cheney with accidental homicide—and at the very least, shouldn’t he step down to prevent the White House “further embarrassment”? Should President Bush not apologize to the American people for allowing his Vice President to go hunting during a time a) a time of war b) when so many children are living in poverty c) when guns kill and the second amendment is in need of good, thorough revision d) while Dana Milbank and Keith Olbermann are so giddy for schtick? Clearly, if nothing else, the Vice President owes Americans an apology for making us look like the gun crazy warmongers the rest of the world already believes us to be, right? And, from a diplomatic standpoint, can the United States—who needs the rest of the world behind it if it is going to fight terrorism, or take on Iran—really afford to have Dick Cheney around, distracted as he necessarily will be by reporters questions about how he feels about having “shot a friend to death”?
Where are the apologies? Where is the contrition? Where is Dick Cheney?
The answer to these and so many other questions—well, they won’t be found here, I’m afraid. Because to me, they’re all simply ludicrous. But please do check in with Josh Marshall, of whose last 15 posts, 14 have covered the growing Cheney Scandal.
I place the odds at 3-2 that some time today, some leftwing website will have found some law or statute that, if finessed in a particular way—and if combined with a bit of speculative narrative filler that accounts, in a certain dubious way, for what took place during that “missing time” [the time many in the White House press corps were sucking down lime-wedged Bacardi and Diet Cokes and hitting on the waiters/waitresses/patrons in some Georgetown singles bar]—absolutely proves that the Vice President has committed an criminal offense and should be “frogmarched” across the White House lawn. Preferably with Karl Rove and Andy Card tethered behind him in a kind of rightwing elephant march. If you will.
related: From the Asian Tribune: “Cheney’s hunting accident: a bizarre and sinister episode.”
For my part, I’m going to concentrate on writing a whimsical haiku and picking up Saw II on DVD.
(see also, INDC Journal)
*****
update: Compliments of Andrew SUllivan, MY PREDICTIONS COME TRUE! Although you have to admit, Andrew does have a point. Which, hell, let me echo it here: YOU ARE NOT A MONARCH OR POPE, MR CHENEY! YOU HAVE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED ANOTHER HUMAN (sure, he didn’t follow line procedure, but, well, still), AND YOU KEPT THE NEWS FROM THE PUBLIC FOR A DAY—EVEN IF ONLY TO SAVE YOUR FRIEND AND HIS FAMILY FROM HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE PARTISAN-DRIVEN MEDIA CIRCUS WE’RE NOW SEEING!
HAD YOU TAKEN A BREAK FROM YOUR “CONCERN” OVER YOUR “FRIEND” TO CALL, SAY, DAVID GREGORY, NONE OF MY WRATH WOULD BE UPON YOU RIGHT NOW, MR CHENEY!
BUT YOU DIDN’T DO THAT! BECAUSE YOU ARE SELFISH AND SECRETIVE—UNLIKE ME, WHO IS ACTUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW! AND OF COURSE, WHAT’S HIS NAME, THE OLD GUY YOU SHOT!
(h/t Allah)
Oh the righteous indignation…
The beltway bufoons got scooped and their egos are bruised.
Frankly I find all of this humorous; especially calls for resignation etc..
When I see some cartoons from those fools we can talk.
Don’t want to jump the gun (sorry) but if Cheney can kill his own friend, imagine what he can do to the Islamofascists. The only thing he can’t do is draw cartoons.
Fascinating story, but consider the upside. If Cheney resigns, Bush will appoint a replacement. And if he picks McCain, or Giuliani, consider how that appointment will rock Washington, D.C. Could be very cool.
Congratulations, Karl Rove.
And Conratulations to you, Vice President Rice.
“I couldn’t help monitoring your conversation. There’s no mystery about Whittington. Why, he simply disappeared. Now, let’s have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up.”
-Scott McClellan via Principal Seymour Skinner
Oooh, be sure to let us know if Saw II is any good. I thought the first one was a highly underrated, very well done horror flick.
Peppered, and well done!
Cheney: “Pull!… What, we’re out of lawyers?”
I actually find the MSM drones whining that they “weren’t informed” quick enough just freakin’ HI-LARIOUS!
The only thing that could make it funnier is Scott M. actually jumping down into the mass of chairs in the WH basement and bitch-slapping Dan Rather…
Standard hunting regs. Standard reporting regs about gun wounds, and maybe even homicide. I don’t know if texas criminalizes negligent battery. How kind do you think texas justice is?
Hate to burst the left-wing bubble, but, Cheney shot a funeral home mouthpiece lawyer. This is Texas. He is not being investigated for criminal charges, they’re getting the complete story as supporting documentation for his Texas Man of the Year award.
Jeez, it’s not like Cheney left a drowning girl in a submerged car for a night without telling anyone…
Hmmm.
I suppose this is the left’s way of trying to get an impeachment, without the impeachment.
Frankly I think there needs to be a chorus of “Where’s the cartoons?” every time the MSM comes up with this sort of nonsense.
Well, that and the fact that this dude is fucking 72 years old or something. He’s already beating the curve, and he’ll get to go down in history as one of the few people ever shot by someone of such high office.
Personally, I feel sorry for the guy, because eventually he’s going to have to pass that birdshot. And friends, that’s gonna make his pisshole burn like all Hell. If he dies before that ever happens, I’d consider it a bullet dodged. Oho!
Question:
Why didn’t the members of the Press simply monitor the police radio/dispatch and follow the police car which investigated the accident at the ranch?
That might have involved some actual reporting.
Or does the press expect to be spoon fed?
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They were all followed. The local police were informed—necessary as an ambulance was called. Homicide enters the question only in the broadest sense, the same sense in which it is used on an autopsy report, and only if Whittington dies.
Again, just because your favorite reporters didn’t get a chance to make a live report doesn’t mean there was a cover-up.
Hmmm.
Lime wedges, Bacardi and coke?
I’d suggest a Mojito instead.
Tart yet sweet with that summer-time goodness that reminds me of hazy days, sweaty nights and that 12 gauge pump-action Mossberg loaded with Bengal man-killers.
In the sense of causing a death. I heard he wasn’t following hunting regs, and as part of teh culture of responsibility, got a warning.
No, rather there was the decision that it would be Mrs. Armstrong that would take the lead in contacting the press. Not a cover at all. SOP with these guys. Citizen soldiers and citizen press secretaries.
Because of the special relationship reporters have with sources. It would be like cheating on your wife. Besides, this is the White House Press Corps—you can’t expect them to have to get the news the way any beat reporter would.
They expect their sources to give them pre-edited stories with bullet points, quotes, and multiple alternate paragraphs, so they don’t accidentally hand in the same story. The preference is that photographs and video are not included, so as to let reporters travel in the company of people who make them look important.
What we’re saying in the Lone Star State: “I’d rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy.”
He didn’t get all the stamps he needed on his hunting license. As the requirement for the one stamp he was missing is new for this year, Texas authorities are giving warnings to everyone.
– Way to go Ric – if that was the you in Col that Shepard was just quoting from an irate Email on FOX…. something about you suggesting that Congress should pass a law that all White house staff should have a gaggle reporter sewn to his/her ass for 24 hour coverage and so they wouldn’t miss a “lick”…. snort…..
Thats the problem with the white house press corps. All they do is get reports from Scottie. But it doesn’t have to be just to them. A general press release would work as well.
Thats how responsibility works.
So you have no point, do you, actus?
None de mur’ oh thou actout. No one in the fucking state KNEW about the upgrade tags, including the officials at the office where the VP’s staff purchased the hunting licenses. Thats why they’re only warning people… all people…. At least get it right if you’re going to post on it….
If actus were to do that, he’d never be able to post again.
Whittington is actually a little famous here in Austin. He owns a block of downtown which the city “condemned” more than ten years ago so they could sieze it and build a parking garage for the white elephant of a convention center they built next door. So far he’s won against City Hall twice, and the Texas Supreme Court ruled last year that they wouldn’t entertain an appeal from the City.
The media is pushing this insignificant story ONLY to distract people from the fact that Al Gore has said, to a Saudi audience in Saudi Arabia, that America is the villain in the WoT.
Does it get more seditious than this, from a former Vice President?
– No Tester…It doesn’t… But hey thats just fine. I’m putting together a List of “N” reasons why the mainstream won’t be voting Democrat in the 2008 election. I don’t know what “N” is because the left comes up with yet another AnyGate loser “get Bush” scam almost every week, so we’ll just keep adding to them. At this point the ass-hats are 0 and 17 in the BDS marathon….
Sorry, actus. The Administration doesn’t owe any duty, legal or otherwise, to the press.
Except that contained in the First Amendment.
Cheney’s got a gun,
Cheney’s got a gun…
Word: usually. “Usually reporters don’t expect to have their little paddy-paws held, but the White House Press Corps? They demand a Governess.
Sadly, I think that Harry Whittington is almost certainly going to die. To date, only one man have avoided that eventuality, and I think superior, even divine paternal genetics were responsible for that.
The vice president will certainly take the blame in the media whether or not he dies immediately or at 114, though I think his doctors will be the most likely culprits. On Fox, they describe “BB” moving into Whittington’s heart, and on CNN they speak of an even larger 5mm pellet.
The #7 1/2 shot Whittington was hit with are just 2.41milimeters in diameter, meaning their equipment is off by 100%, or they can’t read x-rays.
I find both possibilities disturbing, and not good for a long term prognosis.
There’s certainly an expectation from the public of knowing about hunting accidents and hospitalizations involving our elected leaders. If that does create a duty, its not a legal one by any means.
Smoking Gun has the Accident Report up…
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0213061cheney1.html
HEH!
Mr. Whittington? Who? Since David Gregory wasn’t made to take his nap and Dana dressed up as a Cal-Trans worker, I haven’t been able to focus on what’s going on. Gotta love the self important DC press corp, they </i>are<i> the story damn-it.
It’s the theater, stupid. A plot predetermined before any of us were born. The Rules of the Game at a chateau in Texas. A weekend hunting party foreshadows the carnage of war. . .
They expect their sources to give them pre-edited stories with bullet points
That’s worse than my “jump the gun” line.
Sure—and we got the news. It was released to the press.
So your beef remains that it wasn’t released to the right reporters.
I’m not sure what’s more amusing, atcus’ habitial whining about things s/he knows little or nothing about or all the softheaded folks on all the softheaded, politically-correct blogs first professing massive pro-gun rights solidarity before raking the VP over all the coals for (1) killing little birds and not eating them and (2) missing a $7 piece of nanny government bullshit.
This is the biggest non-story of the year, provided there’s been no coverup, which while technically possible, my ten bucks says ain’t going to happen.
So, actus, how many laws are there on the books in your state? I’ll take a reasonable guess for you, one based on the average for a state with at least one major urban center and a rough 50/50 political split:
A half fucking million.
Let’s take another tack here while we’re at it: Which state would you say has the most lax hunting laws? The freest gun-carry laws? The most guns per capita?
Maybe Nevada? Fair enough; I’ll go with that.
How many of these do you think the average NV hunter observes perfectly?
And that’s just ONE statute.
You know what you can do with your “responsibility.” You have no damn clue how it “works.”
tw: I once lived in a nation of free men.
– Well 6…. actcuss and his/her al Qaeda loving buddies don’t really give a flying fuck about gun responsibility statutes, anymore than they care about Muslims or the WOT. What they really want is for guns to just be outlawed. Why. Well if you were in a gaggle of insurectionist idiots trying to turn this country into another French Zombie Socialism, you’d be looking over your shoulder a lot too….
What’s your damn point already? There’s certainly an expectation from the KOS Kidz of knowing about hunting accidents and hospitalizations involving our elected leaders in order to spew blood against freedom and decency too.
And there’s certainly an expectation from the public of knowing about who in Hollywood’s exposed tits made the tabloids or if Brad Pitt’s banging somebody else this weekend.
Hell once I expected to know if Washington was populated by drunken career overlords with manslaughter records, runaway statists, bulldyke lobbies, and the NEA.
But then I grew the fuck up.
tw: Altered states.
Because of the precedent set by all the other hunting accidents? Since when has anyone EVER demanded, or even thought of, hunting accidents?
– How about we stop this “hunting accident of mass distraction” and get back to discussing Al Gores treasonous lies against his own country… Think that might have just a bit more importance in the scheme of things?
Nicely done, ArizonaTeach. And the answer? Judging by all the incompetent, flat-wrong, and mendacious, opportunistic twaddle this incident incited, never.
This non-issue really pisses me off. If this complete waste of time doesn’t make an American hang their head in shame, nothing will.
And apparently that’s exactly the case. God, I’m starting to hate this place myself…
Actus is consistent, at least. Always wrong, always backward. If our official had been shot, we have a right to know. If our official committed a criminal act, we have a right to know. If our official accidented a good friend on his own time, there is nothing in the Constitution or any other law, that you can point to that says anybody but Texas Game and Fish and/or other local law enforcement authorities have a right to know.
If the lady that owned the ranch hadn’t called the press. And everyone involved decided not to share their private life with the public, there would be nothing wrong with that.
So, Actus, go to Capaquitic, practice holding your breath, and leave the adults here to
discuss adult matters.
Confederate Yankee, thanks for a much-needed laugh-out-loud:
Too right… I’m starting to think of this whole episode as a great big Valentine from Mr. Rove to all of us, both sides. The Left gets a little short-lived fillip from the prospect that Cheney might be !a felon! with !a gun!; the Right gets another close look at why the Left keeps losing; gun owners get a chance to tell their stories; pro-gun non-gun owners get to learn something; anti-gun non-gun owners get to get all lathered; media watchdogs get to laugh hysterically at the Keystone Kops antics of reporters; members of the media get to pretend that they’re the story again; one happy Corpus reporter gets to call the White House for the first (and probably last) time in her career; everybody wins!
Thanks, Karl. <smooch>
– Hang tough 6…. Its just a small percentage thats behind all the chaos and mayhem, and they’re getting more and more exposure every day… Its so bad some of my Dem friends are talking about switching over to Independents if not all the way to Conservative. They’re just as sick and tired of what the left has been doing in the last 6 years in the name of the once proud Democratic party, and they just don’t want to be associated with it anymore. I keep wondering where the fuck the moderates are hiding these days. It seems like they’re content to watch the left drive their party in the political toilet. Personally what I’ve witnessed has me so pissed off I’m vowing to get out and stomp for the Reps next time around. I’d like to see the fucking Atheists/Marxists/Socialists/Communists/Anarchists kicked to the curb in a really obvious and profound way so they’ll finally be nailed to the level of less than 15% they really represent…
actus sez:
Why? Are you going hunting with Cheney? What on God’s earth does this have to do with you, and how can you possibly have an expectation of the details of Whittington’s condition? How is it any of YOUR business, other than that you find it entertaining?
Aren’t you one of the whiny little shits that have been carping so much about a right to privacy lately? What about Whittington’s privacy?
What gives? Is privacy only for uberliberals, like free speech? And what part of knowing within 24 hours of the incident is it that you find troubling? Is “Call David Gregory” at the top of your list of things to do in case of emergency?
Waaaaall, hell. How’m ah gonna shoot them dang a-rabs without no shootin’ iron?
SB: middle
america, baby.
All reporters, actually. Or by someone with the info. I mean, Mrs. Armstrong?
“Well 6…. actcuss and his/her al Qaeda loving buddies don’t really give a flying fuck about gun responsibility statutes, anymore than they care about Muslims or the WOT. What they really want is for guns to just be outlawed.”
Oh dear god. Not me. I love shooting. Owned guns when I lived out in country. Ward Churchill’s “pacifism as pathology” cured any bit of anti-gun sentiment in me.
But again we have this weird internet phenomenon where people assume to know certain things about someone and extrapolate to all sorts of policies. Wanna know my gun views? just ask, dude.
I don’t think the expectation is based on precedent. Presidents haven’t eaten any babies while in office. But I think there’s an expectation from the public that they know about that sort of stuff if it goes on.
I quite clearly said there was no legal duty.
You really don’t see people having an interest in this? That’s amazing.
Its been a victim of a shooting. Although I don’t see what privacy you can claim for something that happens out in the open.
Issue a damn press release. “The VP shot someone, its the other guy’s fault.”
We have a right to know everything about Cheney’s behavior, and it is Cheney’s responsibility to be absolutely certain of the humanity or lack thereof of his target.
I mean, it’s not we are his parents and he is a teen-age girl getting an abortion.
My prayers will be with the shooter & the shot. I hope all ends well for both of them.
The press & the usual talking heads and BDS sufferers are acting like buffoons, unable to gauge the American citizen’s ability to differentiate between scandal and a sort of morbid fascination that goes with accidents as well as foul play. We are rubber necking, and they think it looks like a lynch mob formation. Lileks has an audio of a caller to the Medved show speculating that the man was shot on purpose, perhaps because he knew too much. It’s anecdotal and over the top, but who can say it’s rare thinking these days?
I suspect that most people, just hope that everyone comes out ok, that there are no deaths & no lasting injury.
Mark Steyn weighs in at The Corner:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_12_corner-archive.asp#089968
I say again: why? What do they get out of it? What trouble would they avoid by doing so?
Answers: (a) nothing, (b) none whatever.
Press release issued immediately, response: “Dick Cheney just murdered his buddy! IMPEACH BUSH!”
No press release, response: “Dick Cheney just murdered his buddy, AND DIDN’T TELL US ABOUT IT RIGHT AWAY! IMPEACH BUSH!”
Late press release, response: [see “no press release”, above]
They accomplish nothing, gain nothing, and avoid no problems by “cooperating” (i.e., spoon-feeding) the Press. They can’t even achieve the personal satisfaction of having Done the Right Thing because the universal response will be uniformly that they did not.
If anything they get a small amount of gratification from the result of delaying or failing to issue the information, namely entertainment as they watch the “reporters” foaming at the mouth with speculation in a vacuum. Don’t you just love the suave, debonair way they wipe the spittle from their lips? Charming.
Best wishes to Mr. Wittingdon, even if he does sound like a real-life Mr. Slant. Can the rest of us just Move.on?
Regards,
Ric
Got an idea, actus. Offer your services to the White House as a public relations expert. I’m sure the staff can use a good laugh right now.
TW: Pipe down, will ya? Enough already!
actus waffles:
Right, and sadly that’s the canard most of the Cheney-is-a-psychopathic-conspirator claims begin with this news cycle. While I don’t care to speculate on your heart of heart’s, actus, I do tend to associate your implying great failures of vice presidential responsibility flowing from unpulled $7 permits with great failures of vice presidential responsibility flowing from unpulled $7 permits. I’ll retract my reaction when you sum up.
Good timing. Actually, what are your views on Republican VP hunting accidents in Texas? Please include something on caged quail and/or gun control. And Cheney’s miserable, impeachable character, the kind of miserable, impeachable character associated with accidently winging the guy you sweep, one 70 year-old eye closed, the other focused on a smear of feathers the size of a saucer motoring across the sky at 50mph at 30 yards, with the sights of the expensive miniature-bore designer bird gun you’ve loaded with what amounts to metal sand.
Probably after/during a glass of wine. The $7 permit thing’s already out there so maybe we can leave that alone. IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF AN NRA CONSPIRACY!
Ah no, but that would be psychopathic, not accidental. Like the difference between wet cigars and say, genocide, you dig?
Since that little piece of illogical crap’s already been dispensed with (and which you simply avoid) what’s really amazing is that moonbats scream felony and conspiracy over stuff like this. No, wait, on second thought I’m completely wrong about that.
What’s the law say about disclosure, actus? Then, what’s sound White House policy require? Sure, this should be public … but it is. And still the shrieking goes on; at least as long as it takes for the partisan and pointless to find—again—they have no traction.
The point is that none of this matters. Conspiring to commit perjury matters. Actually doing it matters. Misusing federal files matters. And being impeached matters.
But having an accident does not. It’s not a measure of character. It doesn’t constitute an impeachable offense. Washington’s not going to be marred by this non-issue.
Sorry if you’re caught in the return fire raining on the moonbats, actus. But something about the company one keeps comes to mind, even if it is only intellectual company…
The empathy toward Cheney coming from the press is heartwarming.
They feel sorrier for themselves having to hear about it from a small town newspaper than they do for either Cheney or Whittington. Maybe that’s the best indication as to why Cheney didn’t tell them immediately.
They don’t get monday’s presser. No more appearance of impropriety. All sorts of the arguments for forthrightness.
It must be really awful to live on edge like this. Have a smoke and relax.
Nah. I think the failure is shooting that guy in the face.
And so does shooting someone in the face. The good thing is this last one there is nothing to lie about or anything.
At the presser I got a feeling that they were sniffing up incompetence. But I don’t know what you’re talking about that its illogical that people are interested in this. People are. Like with the heart attack update. Very Newsy. Its even here. Supporters and detractors are watching this.
I think they’re really interesting. I think this caged quail thing is pretty sicko, and I think gun control means not shooting a guy in the face, ie. it means responsible gun ownership. I don’t know about wine. But the accident report said no alcohol was involved.
-Its also a pretty good indication of why the left can’t win anything anymore…..
The scary part of this for the Democrats should be They shot a Republican in the heart and he still didn’t die!
Astonishly juvenile behavior on the part of the media and DU nuts.
Robin Roberts:
Juvenile? Feral might be a better term.
“Vice-President Involved in Feral Lawyer Hunt”
Oh, yeah baby…
SB: stop
don’t
Sure thing, actus, you’re unaware of ANY moonbat sewage backups over this. Right. No character assassination, no impeachment talk, no 12 hour White House coverup, no offing folks who know too much, no I wish the guy’d die and then we’d hang that Cheney SOB, no $7 permits, no I-talian shotguns that cost too much, no little birds, no cages, no drunken weekenders, no death-lust, none of that.
Not a lick of vein-popping insanity from the Left this time. Not a drop.
Let’s just stick to your “shooting a guy in the face.” ‘Course, were it as literal as that he’d be dead, but whatever. You’ve made your lukewarm point.
And I see that again I’ve given you the benefit of the doubt you never deserved. Your intellectual mendacity means I have other things to do now.
actus sez:
And you don’t see America having an interest in listening to al-qadea conversations if a participant is in the US. That’s idiotic.
Whittington’s medical condition, should he choose to deem it so, is none of your goddamn business.
tw: ill ctus moreso than Whittington.
*actus moreso…
Rush is saying that this whole incident may have saved Whittington’s life. He was going to have a heart attack anyway and having it in the hospital meant that he got treated immediately. In a way, he was lucky.
Don’t think I’d go that far, marianna.
Patrick, I defer to your superior taxonomy.
Y’know, I just picked up on something. Yeah, I’m slow.
There were no reporters along on the hunt.
Imagine. These are public figures, and according to actus and the “reporters” their every fart and belch is newsworthy. And they didn’t send a “reporter” to cover such an obviously newsworthy event as Dick Cheney with an actual firearm in his hands?
All becomes clear. They fucked up. Something happened, and there was no “reporter” there to describe all the gory details and get good close shots of the bloodstains—and nobody covered for them. Nobody did their job for them.
They aren’t indignant. They aren’t concerned with the welfare of the Republic. They’re embarrassed at being caught out, and all the furore is to cover up the fact that they were asleep at the switch.
TW: give. Nobody was anxious to give them what they were too lazy and careless to get for themselves. No wonder they’re hot.
Regards,
Ric
– Somehow I don’t think the AMA will be adding “Indicated preheart distress medical proceedure by 410 gauge” anytime soon…. even for lawyers….
I don’t think they normally go with him. He’s not the president that has a pool.
– actus….I’m pretty sure you’re down to posting confused questions and comments to yourself at this point…. Whatever irons your socks
Yeah, but he’s Cheney. The AntiKos. Reservoir of all the black vileness that is covered by red and silver paint. With a gun. Can the Beast with Seven Horns be far behind?
They blew it, they know it, and all the BS is to try to keep people from noticing. Look, ma, nothin’ up my sleeve…
Regards,
Ric
Europe is in flames and the Danes are pissing their pants. France is teetering. Iran is nuking up and threatening to obliterate an entire sovereign state with their own collective suicide.
Fat-wad-has and jee-haad-whas and contracts on lives are flying as thick as Clinton polls once did. Deep in the proud tradition of various east coast socialist liberals, the algorebot speaks in shameless, seditionist tones.
And he does so for half this nation, his enablers; his crazed amphitheatre hordes, drunk on their own hatred.
And to the very minute timestamped on this post, MSNBC is publishing the Cheney non-story above the fold, page one. I won’t do the other alphabets the courtesy of pinging their pathetic little sites to see what kind of rot they’ve got up.
Ask me if I’m concerned about the tone in this country right now. About little birds and hunting permits.
Blew what though? You think the press is supposed to follow cheney everywhere and fails when they don’t?
Ahhh. “Sedition.” Its rolls off the tongue so film-noirly.
The thing that’s funny about tone is that here is talk of little birds and hunting permits—and someone got shot in the face. Thats tonality.
No, statistically somebody “got shot in the face” in DC or LA or Detroit a few minutes ago, jackass, with like a 9mm or a .38.
You couldn’t comprehend a 28ga shot pattern at 90 feet if your Birkenstocks depended on it.
Which, put another way, means don’t lecture me about tonality when shot-in-the-face is all you’ve got, fuckwad.
Not so incidentally, this is a small-bore shotgun at 90 feet.
(By the way, a hundred eighty degree arc at 90 feet measures nearly three hundred feet long. How long does it take to swing that entire arc tracking quail, actus? Five seconds?)
Yeah, shot in the face. Walked right up, took aim, and shot him in the face.
Why. Do. I. Try.
tw: Lead.
– actout will keep this up for hours if you entertain his/her asinine posts. He/she is the dorkus you would call on if you wanted to bore someone to the point of suicide… I said hours ago to ask the next stupid question and he/shes done 50 more….its a game….Feh
“You couldn’t comprehend a 28ga shot pattern at 90 feet if your Birkenstocks depended on it.”
I just finished looking at one on the internets. The link was from the fine folks at the Corner on National Review. Cuz they’re all avid DC-based hunters.
And it looks like you found it too.
You’re right that seeing that video made me think of little birds and permits. Not a guy shot. In the face.
200 pellets. Lead? or what? This one I don’t know yet.
Though I don’t think the situation here is that he took aim.
Go have a sandwich, actus.
Even Ari Fleischer touches on this public expectation.
Hmmm.
I must say that the more the lefties scream about this, the less interested I am in it.
*shrug* I grew up in rural New Hampshire. That pretty much says everything that needs to be said about my views on firearms, hunting and shooting birds on the wing.