This is soooo much ado about nothing.
The man was peppered with shot from a 28-guage shotgun at 30 yards. That's a very small gun for bird hunting. I would never go with anything smaller than a 16-guage and usually a 12-guage.
"Whittington required intensive care treatment, was hit with more than 100 pellets, and that some of the wounds were so severe the pellets could not be removed."
That statement is pure unadulterate CRAP. Normal shot size for quail hunting is 7 or 8. In a 12 guage shell there might be 40 pellets. In a 28 guage there would be far fewer.
While dove hunting in West Texas as a youth I was regularly peppered. It happens. It stings. It might even break the skin where the skin is uncovered. At worst, those pellets would bubble back up to the surface in a week or two -- much like a splinter. Normally, Dad would dig them out with his pocket knife and pour some alcohol on the spot. If it was a real bad boo-boo, or if Mama was afraid we would bleed on our school shirts, we might get a bandaid. We would have never considered seeking anymore medical attention than that.
I have no doubt that Mr Whittington has been peppered many a time in his life. And I would hazard a guess that some of those incidents involved much larger bore guns than the VP's 28 guage. I doubt seriously if he was ever hospitalized for such before this incident.
This is purely the personification of those TV commercials where the hospital patient gets extensive care because "this man has money coming out the wazoo."
The administrators saw the VP motorcade in the parking lot and the Veep was probably standing outside the ER door saying, "this is my fault, make sure all the bills get sent to my office."
Girls, quick, fire up the BIG cash register for this one.
I didn't bother to count the number of times the article mentions it, but most of the text is spent on how the newsies were clattering over who heard what when and why didn't we get this first, or faster.
IOW, the media is exploding over ... nothing.
You'd have thought Dick Cheney shot a reporter.
They are determined to make this worse - if not the 'the worst' of accidents.
Good thing he didn't get sent home!
Considering the latest reports, the guy might have died!
Is this doctor a Dem or just plain incompetent?
I wonder if he has a release from his patient to be talking about treatment and condition.
Give the man a purple heart and stick a badge of Kerry on him.
More proof the MSM manufactures news instead of reporting it.
I don't remember MSM 'reporting' this way on Clinton's knee injury at Greg Norman's mansion. He even had surgery without our knowledge until it was over. The press knew that and kept it quiet.