Cheney cleared of charges, calls for resignation

Stingray: a blog for salty Christians ^ | February 16, 2006 | Michael McCullough

[DallasMike]

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[litehaus]

New York Times,,,,,,,,,,Properly:....New York Slimes

[My2Cents]

"Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance."

No, Lanny, the news media took a relatively non-story and created a huge negative story because of their stubbornness and their arrogance. Again, where was the news media's self-righteousness about "the right to know" when Ted Kennedy delayed reporting his accident to the local police, or when the Clinton White House delayed reporting on the "suicide" of Vince Foster?

[My2Cents]

Anyway, here's some spew from Herbert

It's amazing that someone can parlay pure hatred into a career.

[digger48]

Or the numerous successful cover-ups of events in past administrations that we never did hear about.

[KeyLargo]

Yep, MSM all have the memo now so they are on the same page:


Sheriff: No Charges Against Cheney
WXIA-TV, GA - 33 minutes ago
... AP) -- The sheriff's department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be filed ...
Sheriff: No charges to be filed against Cheney
Standard-Speaker, PA - 34 minutes ago
... Texas - The sheriff’s department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney’s accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be ...

Sydney Morning Herald No charges to be filed against Vice President Cheney
Tampa Bay's 10, FL - 2 hours ago
Sarita, Texas - A sheriff's department in Texas says no charges will be filed against Vice President Cheney over a weekend hunting accident. ...
No Charges For Cheney in Hunting Accident WXXA
Cheney: I accept blame for shooting my friend Unison.ie
Cheney Comes Clean on Hunting Accident AXcess News
all 4,573 related »
No Charges To Be Filed Against VP Cheney
CBS 13, CA - 2 hours ago
(AP) SARITA, Calif. A sheriff's department in Texas says no charges will be filed against Vice President Cheney over a weekend hunting accident. ...

[O Neill]

In the beginning, alcohol was not involved.

Now, the unanswerable question is how much alcohol was involved. It's unanswerable because the local Sheriff did not send CSI out to the shooting scene to gather evidence (including breathalizer test reports). One can only wonder how many ranch shootings in Texas received no law enforcement response until the Ranch Hands say it's okay to send CSI out.

The original Fish & Game Report says alcohol was not involved, period, but a violation of law (no 'Upland Bird Stamp') was perpetrated. Cheney immediately cuts a $7 check & mails it in. Further, the local Sheriff sends no investigators to the Ranch that evening, based upon assurances of a Ranch Hand employed by the Ranch (& former Sheriff's Deputy) that this was an accident & investigators could come Sunday morning.

When meek investigators are dispatched to interview the aged Harry at the Hospital, they ask if they can record the interview...Harry says No!. They then ask for an Affidavit & Harry says he'll do that when he returns to Austin & gets a Round Tuit. The nurse tell the investigators to vamoose, which they do, but only after aged Harry tells them the ONE thing they need to know: "NO ALCOHOL WAS INVOLVED!" No one knows the whereabouts of the alleged bird, allegedly flushed from the field by Cheney's footsteps...or those of his female companion-hunter.

And we are left with the VP, flush with SOME unknowable amount of alcohol, whirling counter-clockwise into the sunset, hurriedly aiming at an alleged, never-identified bird & firing .28-gauge buckshot into the tall grass where his aged friend Harry crouched in search of dead game...

Cheney's poor judgment leaves me no choice but to cease being apologetic for this fiasco...Sorry.

[clawrence3]

Are you kidding?

[clawrence3]

"No one knows the whereabouts of the alleged bird . . . or female"?! You must be pulling our legs, because I was the one who TOLD you where the females are:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577920/posts?page=67#67

[tet68]

28 guage buckshot???

Gowan!

[Emmett McCarthy]

And while Drunken Ted was "delaying" said report, a young woman was effin' drowning - a young woman who may well have been saved if he'd made one phone call to the cops instead of the 26 he made to his political advisors!

[O Neill]

Thanks for the reminder...

"...or those of his female companion-hunter."

=

"...or those of his female companion-hunter, Ms. Pamela Willeford, US Ambassador to Switzerland."

[O Neill]

28 guage buckshot???

".28 guage buckshot..."

=

"a 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun..."

Good calls...

[clawrence3]

LOL - just because YOU don't know where the US Ambassador to Switzerland is (may I suggest THE U.S. EMBASSY) or the difference between "birdshot" and "buckshot" doesn't mean we have to take you seriously - you did not answer that question.

[O Neill]

LOL - just because YOU don't know where the US Ambassador to Switzerland is (may I suggest THE U.S. EMBASSY) or the difference between "birdshot" and "buckshot" doesn't mean we have to take you seriously - you did not answer that question.

That's true. Your opinion of my opinion is yours alone.

[Petronski]

...the flaming quagmire of Iraq...

Herbert's an ass. Bigtime!

[clawrence3]

Agreed - here's my question one last time: Are you kidding?!

[O Neill]

I'm not trying to deceive or fool anyone for the fun of it, no. If you don't wish to take me seriously, whether because I didn't name Cheney's female companion-hunter whose name & position you had earlier posted, or becuase I typed 'buckshot' instead of 'birdshot', or any other reason, that's your choice.

[clawrence3]

I'm not dismissing you opinion because of any of that - I'm dismissing it because it is WACKO LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY territory.

[O Neill]

I'm dismissing it because it is WACKO LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY territory.

Well, maybe I am a little like Jim Garrison & just don't get it sometimes. Thanks for reminding me to constantly check what's coming in through the tinfoil hat from Montana Central...