BTW, I like a Pres or Veep that fishes and hunts. Tell me he actually cleaned his catch and I'd be even happier.

 

I was thinking how sad it is that he travels with an ambulance. In a couple years, the ambulance goes away, as if he doesn't matter anymore. 

 

Well, they were penraised quail if it means anything....

Well, they were penraised quail if it means anything....

 

That sucks. So basically it's walk around, kick the damn thing to make it fly, and shoot it. Not my favorite hunting style. I did pheasants that way at a hunt farm, boring.

 

I wonder if that is more pc than shooting wild birds?

I wonder if that is more pc than shooting wild birds?

I would think it's the opposite. Why not just shoot some fish in a barrel while you're at it?

Jon Stewart: "I'm joined now by our own vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst, Rob Corddry. Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it?

 

Rob Corddry: "Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Wittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush.

 

"And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Whittington's face."

 

Jon Stewart: "But why, Rob? If he had known Mr. Whittington was not a bird, why would he still have shot him?"

 

Rob Corddry: "Jon, in a post-9-11 world, the American people expect their leaders to be decisive. To not have shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak."

 

Jon Stewart: "That's horrible."

 

Rob Corddry: "Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know 'how' we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little 'covey' of theirs.

 

Jon Stewart: "I'm not sure birds can laugh, Rob."

 

Rob Corddry: "Well, whatever it is they do ... coo .. they're cooing at us right now, Jon, because here we are talking openly about our plans to hunt them. Jig is up. Quails one, America zero.

 

Jon Stewart: "Okay, well, on a purely human level, is the vice president at least sorry?"

 

Rob Corddry: "Jon, what difference does it make? The bullets are already in this man's face. Let's move forward across party lines as a people ... to get him some sort of mask."

Breaking News on CNN.com, Harry Whittington has suffered a minor heart attack because birdshot has become lodged in his heart. No link yet.

Edited February 14, 200620 yr by kyyle23

Breaking News on CNN.com, Harry Whittington has suffered a minor heart attack because birdshot has become lodged in his heart.    No link yet.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/cheney/index.html

 

Jeez...what if this guy dies. That would be messed up.

Edited February 14, 200620 yr by BigSqwert

What? No more joke quotes? :headshake

What?  No more joke quotes?  :headshake

And no more lipservice from a mouthpiece for the Vice President about how the guy he shot in the face is just "doing fine and in good spirits"? :headshake

What?  No more joke quotes?  :headshake

 

Did you year the one about the poachers who were shooting pen-raised quail?

And no more lipservice from a mouthpiece for the Vice President about how the guy he shot in the face is just "doing fine and in good spirits"? :headshake

 

Hmmm ... circumstances don't change?

Breaking News on CNN.com, Harry Whittington has suffered a minor heart attack because birdshot has become lodged in his heart.    No link yet.

 

at least they are calling it minor. I can't believe Doctors missed some shot in his heart, I'd have thought x-rays would have picked that up pretty easily.

at least they are calling it minor. I can't believe Doctors missed some shot in his heart, I'd have thought x-rays would have picked that up pretty easily.

 

they said in the article it migrated. it probably got caught in the bloodstream eventually flowed to, and lodged in, the heart causing the attack if I am understanding it right.

What?  No more joke quotes?  :headshake

 

Still trolling for bad behavior? When a minor accident becomes life threatening, common decency dictates it isn't a laughing matter anymore. I find it rather insulting that some people here keep accusing people, even before anything happens, of poor behavior. :headshake It seems like nothing would make you happier than some stupid comment from a liberal. That is sad.

Still trolling for bad behavior? When a minor accident becomes life threatening, common decency dictates it isn't a laughing matter anymore. I find it rather insulting that some people here keep accusing people, even before anything happens, of poor behavior.  :headshake

 

I guess getting shot and hospitalized is considered minor in Texas.

I guess getting shot and hospitalized is considered minor in Texas.

 

Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad.

Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad.

 

Some things are predictable. That's what is sad.

Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad.

 

Where is Mercy! when you need him?

Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad.

The White House thought it was funny.

Well it seemed minor to most of the talk show hosts, I didn't notice any politicians making jokes. But right from the start the Republicans around here started hoping for boorish behavior from liberals, that is sad.

Not hoping, expecting. And guess what? Look at all the crap out there and the press corps yesterday and today. They didn't disappoint. Take your soapbox somewhere else on this one, because they have attacked at will on this.

Some things are predictable.  That's what is sad.

 

Backhanded accusing people is sad. Using an accident like that to make Democrats, who did nothing, look bad is disgusting.

Hmmm ... circumstances don't change?

Indeed they do. If the situation begins to look grave I'm quite sure everyone – including the veep - will stop making such light of it all.

I also heard that Whittington's closest friends couldn't wait to see him because he's such a funny guy and was sure to have some good zingers about this.

Backhanded accusing people is sad. Using an accident like that to make Democrats, who did nothing, look bad is disgusting.

 

Who said anything about Democrats?

Not hoping, expecting.  And guess what?  Look at all the crap out there and the press corps yesterday and today.  They didn't disappoint.  Take your soapbox somewhere else on this one, because they have attacked at will on this.

 

Please post a link that any politician tried to blame the Bush administration?

 

Yes there were jokes, just like there have been jokes about Clinton and Monica's blue dress, and Ted Kennedy drinking, It seems that Ted Kenedy drinking, which by all reasonable accounts led to someone's death can be a matter of joking.

 

As I see it

 

Chaney accidentaly shoots someone in a hunting accident.

Some of the first posts were taking shots at liberals for things they might say.

In other words the conservatives around here have been using this accident to rip on liberals, before anything was even said.

 

That's ok with you?

As I said. Some things are just expected.