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Man Shot by Cheney Leaving Hospital
AP ^ | LYNN BREZOSKY

Posted on 02/17/2006 11:33:55 AM PST by 300magnum

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was being discharged from a hospital Friday and told reporters he was deeply sorry for all the trouble Cheney had faced over the past week.

Cheney, speaking to the Wyoming Legislature on Friday, also alluded to the shooting as he thanked lawmakers for their half-minute standing ovation, saying the warm greeting was especially welcome "when you've had a very long week."

"Thankfully, Harry Whittington is on the mend and doing well," Cheney said.

In Texas, Whittington wore a suit and tie as he gave his brief statement outside the hospital. His voice was a bit raspy, but strong, and he had what appeared to be a line of cuts on his upper right eyelid and scrapes on his neck.

"We all assume certain risks in what we do, in what activities we pursue," the 78-year-old Austin attorney said. "Accidents do and will happen."

Whittington was hit in the face, neck and chest with birdshot Saturday during a hunting trip at a South Texas ranch. He had been listed in stable condition in a Corpus Christi hospital since suffering a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet traveled to his heart.

Cheney took full blame for the shooting in an interview Wednesday with Fox News, his first public comments on what happened that day.

"I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend," Cheney said in the interview. He said it was "one of the worst days of my life."

Dr. David Blanchard, chief of emergency care at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Whittington will go home Friday because of "his excellent health," but Blanchard added that "he is not 100 percent."

During his statement, Whittington said the past weekend involved "a cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain, especially with those who are not familiar with the great sport of quail hunting."

He said he sent his love and respect to Cheney and his family.

"My family and I are deeply sorry for everything Vice President Cheney and his family have had to deal with," he said. "We hope that he will continue to come and seek the relaxation that he deserves."

The Kenedy County Sheriff's Department closed its investigation of the shooting on Thursday without filing any charges. The department released an incident report that supported accounts from the ranch owner and Cheney.

Cheney told an investigator that he did not see Whittington while aiming for a bird. Whittington "explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," Chief Deputy Gilberto San Miguel Jr. wrote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cheney; harrywhittington
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To: TheForceOfOne
Their faces full of disbelief, and what might have been, if only Harry had died.

Hey, it's not over yet!

If this man ever dies in the future, the MSM will try to blame the death on complications from the shooting. If he dies from cancer, for example, it will be cancer brought about from one of those bird shots that wasn't able to be extracted. If he dies from being run over by a car, they'll blame it on his inability to get out of the way of the vehicle as a result of his slowed-down reflexes that resulted from the shooting.

Cheney's not out of this yet and never will be.
61 posted on 02/17/2006 12:00:52 PM PST by adorno
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To: 300magnum

Great title. It sounds like Cheney shot him again as he was leaving the hospital.


62 posted on 02/17/2006 12:01:38 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: ThinkDifferent

- Male pornography picture taken by Cheney...


63 posted on 02/17/2006 12:03:34 PM PST by r9etb
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To: RWE
the quail are raised in pens and have their wings clipped.

Anyone who has ever hunted quail knows that the ones that just run for it never get shot.

64 posted on 02/17/2006 12:03:46 PM PST by bruoz
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To: silverleaf

ROTFLMAO!!!!! Good one!


65 posted on 02/17/2006 12:03:47 PM PST by fizziwig (Democrats: so far off the path, so incredibly vicious, so sadly pathetic.)
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To: 300magnum
Man Shot by Cheney Leaving Hospital

This should make the 'Headlines" segment of the Tonight Show with Leno.
66 posted on 02/17/2006 12:03:54 PM PST by adorno
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To: 300magnum

Wierd title. Looks like Cheney shot someone else. Deliberate? Probably not, but wierd.


67 posted on 02/17/2006 12:04:54 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: r9etb
- Male pornography picture taken by Cheney...

You win.

68 posted on 02/17/2006 12:05:06 PM PST by ThinkDifferent (Chloe rocks)
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To: 300magnum

Eats, shoots and leaves?


69 posted on 02/17/2006 12:07:25 PM PST by Uncledave (It takes some pretty serious yodeling to call for a filibuster from a five-star ski resort)
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To: adorno

Three years, after that George and Dick will be gone and they'll forget about it. They'll be to busy losing another election.


70 posted on 02/17/2006 12:07:52 PM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: bruoz

"Anyone who has ever hunted quail knows that the ones that just run for it never get shot."

And the more they're hunted, the more they learn to run for it. Them little chickens just HATE to fly!


71 posted on 02/17/2006 12:08:51 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: 300magnum

LOL PING


72 posted on 02/17/2006 12:11:41 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: onyx

I think the press is still just a little bitter.


73 posted on 02/17/2006 12:12:12 PM PST by 300magnum (We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
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To: 300magnum


LOL! Ya think?


74 posted on 02/17/2006 12:13:42 PM PST by onyx (IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
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To: 300magnum
Man Shot by Cheney Leaving Hospital

Man, what's up with Cheney lately?! First he shoots a guy in a field and then he shoots a guy while he's leaving a hospital somewhere. I think he's watching too much ' 24 '!

75 posted on 02/17/2006 12:15:21 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Hey....who the hell said those idiots were useful? :0 )


76 posted on 02/17/2006 12:21:00 PM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: B Knotts

Somebody's got to do something about this Cheney guy! Nobody is safe anymore!

I bet you a steak dinner that this "headline" was written by one of our brilliant "journalists"....


77 posted on 02/17/2006 12:22:36 PM PST by GadareneDemoniac
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To: B Knotts
LOL! I thought the same thing - that this was a scrappleface.
78 posted on 02/17/2006 12:28:53 PM PST by colorado tanker (We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
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To: B Knotts
This headline is misleading...it sounds like Cheney shot the guy again as he was leaving the hospital.

Sounds like Cheney was leaving the Hospital, probably after visiting his friend, and he shot someone else.

79 posted on 02/17/2006 12:31:03 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: GadareneDemoniac; All
Nobody is safe around Cheney!


80 posted on 02/17/2006 12:40:54 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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