Curling?
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.
That montage is SO great :D
"A 78 year old is only good for taking to the restaurant so you can make sure they get stuck with the bill. Hunting? No Way!"
LOL! See my post right before yours. Same thought. :)
I have not seen any such announcement from Scooter Libby or his spokesman. There has only been supposition in the National Journal. That the media has pushed this story is way beyond yellow journalism and DNC/MSM bushwah.
oh lol that must be a mole
Smarter was tongue in cheek. Within the last decade or so I remember Gore, Bush, Kerry, Clinton in hunting exhibitions, always birds. I'm sure there are other examples, but why always birds? Obviously they presume that's viewed more favorably than hunting something on four legs. Drunk driving, that's a Kennedy thing, the jail term would end the career of anyone else.
Want to be shocked, this is an actual quote I occasionally abbreviate to a tagline. Is that a sick mind or what.
"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."
- Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article.
Well it was Old Scratch's first, and probably last post. I wonder if it's a Freeper, it wasn't me.
i hope you were able to screensave that I would love to see the replys
And anyone who says they aren't startled and disconcerted, and put off their aim, when they take to the air, with a roar, right under their nose, is a damn prevaricator. Of course, it's a lot easier with a good dog. Brownwood - quail capital of the world.
I am seeing some difference between the Clinton Administration and Bush 43. Clinton's would get someone else to do their killing.....
I would be more concerned about a youngster of 15 to 25 that was new to the sport.
Jonah Goldberg weighs in:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_12_corner-archive.asp#089847
How does one get a bead on the Bird (sight) if he only was going by sound. The reports stated from eyewitnesses that he had a visual. The reports originally were all over the map, even going so far as to say that the VP was shot, most of the Media reports were scatterbrained half a$$ed reporting. Anything can make Bushes rustle, and Dick cheney is an experienced Hunter, and knows this.
Curling?
OOps ! That wasn't suppose to happen !! Grrrrrr ! Should have played the clip.
(snickers) Look at #94.
Don't
mess
with
Dick!
Be hail and hearty, VP!
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176. You won't be long for this place..... See ya. Troll.
187. Let's see if he makes 2 posts...n/t
BUSH
KNEW
!
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