The Myth of the Hunt: How the media has misfired on the Cheney accident

Time ^ | Friday, Feb. 17, 2006 | WALTER KIRN

[hsalaw]

In a time of actual war — and when one of the hunters helps to run that war — the playfulness of the sport may seem distasteful.

This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Where's the barf alert? This article is a disgusting piece of cr*p from another scum sucking, whiney, loser leftie. But what did I expect from Time? My fault for reading it. End of rant, now.

[.cnI redruM]

No, they didn't screw up. They covered for Al-Gora's sedition in SA and Sen Schumer's political rub-out of Paul Hackett very nicely.

[TX Bluebonnet]

despite the fact that no one died and the responsible party apologized (though not, perhaps, as promptly as he might have).

I didn't get past this crap. I'm sure Cheney apologized to his firend immediately, profusely and sincerely. It just wasn't in front of David Gregory and his ilk.

[MNJohnnie]

More Junk for the Junk Journalists. The self righteous pompous arrogance of the never ever done anything in life but be a self important twit with a Journalism degree tone just LEAPS off the page at you.

What IS it about "Journalists", people who have NEVER done anything meaningful in their lives, that gives them this pompous arrogance to lecture everyone else about their lives? Say Time, when you have done 1/1000th of the good Dick Cheney has done with his life, then you MAYBE can presume to lecture him.

[synbad600]

"Once a person picks up his gun, he is that gun. And whatever that gun causes."

Is he implying that people kill people, not guns? The horror.

[MNJohnnie]

Please add Flush the Koran Newsweak to your "lazy journalist" line up. People need to be continually reminded that NO one was every held accountable or that by our Junk Journalists. That bit of journalistic malpractice has, and will continue, to get Americans killed. Newsweak could NOT of come up with a more damaging propaganda lie to damage US National Interests if they had been working for Al Qeda intentionally. Yet the Junk Journalists have neither apologies nor made restitution for this will lie. Same Same Boston Globe and their front page story about GIs "raping" Iraqi women sourced from a PORN website!

[pepperhead]

Your right, Cheney owed no apology to anyone but his friend.

[MNJohnnie]

The Press Corp is a private business interest selling a product. That is ALL they are. They have ZERO legal or moral standing in our political system. Every time they scream the lie: "We are the people's watch dog" they need to be smacked hard.

Where was "the people's watch dog" on any of dozens of out right false reporting by the Junk Journalists from Flush the Koran to Rathergate?

[pepperhead]

He could have turned his head.

[Starboard]

a 28-gauge is a very little shotgun

I'm not a hunter but, in thinking about your comment, it stands to reason that you would not want to use a heavy guage shotgun (e.g., 12-guage) to hunt small birds like quail so as not to 'atomize' them.

[MNJohnnie]

Because they're so good at doing so many other things, the talking heads think they're good at this thing too

Yeah you bet Z. This sort of self laudatory crap about people with NO accomplishments or resume is really "Good writing". Hard to decide who is kidding themselves more, YOU or the Junk Journalists

[MNJohnnie]

at do you think the over/under is on the number of folks who have read this piece in its entirety? Anyone? Please frame your answer in the form, x of y.

Well considering YOU obviously didn't read the whole thing or even THINK about it before leaping on the same dead horse whining you post on EVERY thread, I suspect it makes it 99%

[JennysCool]

Wow! your nick is sure appropriate to this discussion! :-)

[Starboard]

The self righteous pompous arrogance of the never ever done anything in life but be a self important twit...people who have NEVER done anything meaningful in their lives, that gives them this pompous arrogance to lecture everyone else about their lives?

This too could be said of most Washington bureaucrats, who I can assure you are mostly liberals.

[Bob]

...the responsible party apologized (though not, perhaps, as promptly as he might have).

Apologized to whom? How does this clown know that Cheney wasn't apologizing to his friend as soon as he rushed over to him? Oh, he must mean "apologized to the American people" (or to the press corps). As if that needed to happen. Sheesh.

[Kenny Bunk]

when I heard that Mary Matalin was involved

What mystical hold does this idiotic bimbo have on the Republican Party? Next time Cheney feels like .....etc. etc.

[Billthedrill]

...it stands to reason that you would not want to use a heavy guage shotgun (e.g., 12-guage) to hunt small birds like quail so as not to 'atomize' them.

Well, no. You do it because it's a bit more challenging or you prefer a lighter recoil. The 12-gauge doesn't hit the bird any harder, the shot pattern is simply bigger and there's more shot in it. Unless you manage to hit the little bugger before the pattern has spread, that is, in which case you're reeeeal close.

What you do do is adjust the size of the shot you're using to fit the size of the game. You wouldn't hunt geese with number 9 shot, nor would you hunt quail with number 3. That would atomize them.

[Starboard]

Thanks. Like I said, I'm not a hunter but do appreciate your explanation.

[OldFriend]

The media insanity was something to behold.

That our veep had to go such a trauma was really sad. I don't know how he manages to put with all the bull that passes for politics in D.C.

People out here in real America get it!

Those inside the beltway just don't get it and never will.

And sadly, for the most part, that includes FNC.

[ohioWfan]

The press may be mauling the story and prolonging it, but the accident's strange allegorical allure is beyond its power to affect.

The writer may take shots at the press coverage, but his 'allegory' is anti-war, anti-Bush/Cheney, and anti-American.

Very nicely written poppycock.