Dick Cheney Shoots Someone
by James Buchanan

Vice President Dick Cheney just shot someone. No kidding. The news stories are claiming that the shooting took place during a quail hunting trip. Did Dick Cheney mistake his friend, a 78 year old lawyer, for a small bird? The news stories are saying this was just an innocent hunting accident.
One news story reports “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… 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… 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… 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.’ ”
Now, it’s not every day a Vice President of the United States shoots someone so why not fully explore this incident? First of all, the victim was 78 years old. Perhaps Cheney has changed his position on euthanasia. It remains to be seen if Demoncats will endorse the shooting as an important step in assisted suicide (although assisting with a firearm may be a bit much.) (more…)













