Posted on 02/12/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by bayourant
Edited on 02/12/2006 2:10:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.
Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Whittington was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday.
Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.
"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.
"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.
"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.
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Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.
The good old days! :>)
Just imagine how orgasmic and gross the DUmmies would be if it was CHENEY who was shot.
Multiple choice question:
Would you rather go:
a.) On a drive with Ted Kennedy
b.) Golfing with Gerald Ford
c.) Hunting with Dick Cheney
d.) To a hotel room with Bill Clinton
e.) None of the above
First Libby announces that he was authorized to disclose Plame's identity. Now this. Hmmmmm.
Sorry for Hugh
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! Dang, you're good!!
you forgot canoing with Carter.
* Seems pretty obvious that Cheney took a "sound shot" at the bushes, where his "friend" was scrounging around for his bird. Classic "slob hunter" behavior. Sad, and stupid.Seems pretty obvious you haven't read or heard the news reports.
Actually, I have.
I read and heard the news reports -- from the very first "Breaking News" alert on Fox. I observed as the story "developed".
Here's my secret: I ran the pre-spun "news reports" through my Reality Filter (SOP at Castle Joe for all "news")
Here's a tip: You don't have to share my opinion -- but you don't have to demean my intelligence or skills either. That's called a "personal attack", and it's so gauche.
"Jay Leno's joke writers are set for the week."
Tom Tancredo's getting an invitation to go hunting right now.
From what I'd heard and read, the lawyer got behind the Vice President and didn't let him know.
Or otherwise pisses him off. ;O)
Heard at least once, at every water cooler in America tomorrow:
"Hey, did you hear the Vice President shot a lawyer"...
("it's a start")
Anne Armstrong, co-owner of ranch, was a Halliburton director when that corporation hired Cheney. (Factoid from DU)
Some are convinced he'll have to resign over this. LOL.
Actually, Cheney invited Ted Kennedy, but he couldn't make it...
No there two busy talking about the Haliburton connection lol at the du
Bu$h Pioneers Tobin and Anne Armstrong own the 50,000 acre Armstrong Ranch. Anne Armstrong was a Halliburton director when that corporation hired Cheney. She is Kay Bailey Hutchison’s best friend, having helped launch the senator’s career as Republican National Committee co-chair in 1971. Anne Cox Armstrong is an heiress to the Cox Communication fortune.
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPayback...
Hey! Let's start a rumor that it was Scooter Libby's attorney that he shot. "By accident."
Think they'd fall for it?
He has claimed to have shot a 16 point stag, which is laughable, since he couldn't even get a goose on camera
Nope, you're not wrong. Some hunters I've hunted with will move ahead of the line. Usually if they are hunting behind a far rangeing dog. Combine that with the fact that the bird may fly in any direction and you have an incident in the making.
It's not just the shooter that needs to keep track of everyone. A 78 year old hunter knows better too. I'm sure he's been hunting with young hunters and you always keep on your toes.
LOL
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