The Cheney Shooting.

[my73charger]

Will someone please explain to me why the media is making such a big deal out of this for?  Wow, they are freaking out because they weren't told absolutely immediately.  Frankly I am sick and tired of hearing about it already.  It was an unfortunate accident but I cannot for the life of me understand why it is being made so huge.

[Orange_Crush]

Well, it IS serious.

Think about it, had he gone with GW BUSH and Bush accidentally shot him, who would run the country?

[NHCharger]

I want to know if Cheney will be impeached like Clinton was.
For illegal discharge of a weapon

[greenpigs]

I want to know if Cheney will be impeached like Clinton was.
For illegal discharge of a weapon

Thats some rough fore-play

[Ponch ®]

I want to know if Cheney will be impeached like Clinton was.
For illegal discharge of a weapon

thats what happens when you unload on someone's face...

[my73charger]

You guys are so funny...seriously it was news worthy for one day, the feeding frenzy should be over with.  Shooting accidents happen every hunting season.  They leberal media and the Dems are on the attack pure and simple.

[Lowprofile]

I want to know if Cheney will be impeached like Clinton was.
For illegal discharge of a weapon

thats what happens when you unload on someone's face...

Beeotch will listen the next time he's told to do something.......

[Headrope]

You guys are so funny...seriously it was news worthy for one day, the feeding frenzy should be over with.  Shooting accidents happen every hunting season.  They leberal media and the Dems are on the attack pure and simple.

It's newsworthy because the information that took too long to be shared happened this time to be in regards to the Vice President accidentally shooting someone. If the communications daisy chain took so long to reveal something like that, who's to say it doesn't take equally as long to reveal something even more serious?

Rebuttal to misspelled accusation aside (liberal is spelled with an "I," btw) it's newsworthy. Let's say you're the next guy to go hunting with Cheney. Knowing that he accidentally shot the last guy would be good news to have. Wouldn't it? If not for the "liberal media" reporting such a thing you might not have known about your hunting partner's past, unless he happened to tell you.

Bottom line: It's not just about hunting.

[Mike DC]

You guys are so funny...seriously it was news worthy for one day, the feeding frenzy should be over with.  Shooting accidents happen every hunting season.  They leberal media and the Dems are on the attack pure and simple.

The media's always on the lookout for any unusual incident with major (and controversial) public officeholders.  It's cheap ratings and it doesn't demand any actual reporting work.

Political?  Only if you wanna read that into it.

The current (crappy) news media is always trying to make everything seem more ominous than they really is.  They do the same thing when they talk about plastic playground toys.

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[Ponch ®]

You guys are so funny...seriously it was news worthy for one day, the feeding frenzy should be over with.  Shooting accidents happen every hunting season.  They leberal media and the Dems are on the attack pure and simple.

The media's always on the lookout for any unusual incident with major (and controversial) public officeholders.  It's cheap ratings and it doesn't demand any actual reporting work.

Political?  Only if you wanna read that into it.

The current (crappy) news media is always trying to make everything seem more ominous than they really is.  They do the same thing when they talk about plastic playground toys.

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[dkn1997]

The hunter shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a minor heart attack after a piece of birdshot moved to his heart

I think it just got a teensie bit more serious.

and to top it off, he did not bother to go get the $7 quail certificate for his hunting licence!!!  doh!!!!

[Mopar440+6]

Let's say you're the next guy to go hunting with Cheney. Knowing that he accidentally shot the last guy would be good news to have. Wouldn't it? If not for the "liberal media" reporting such a thing you might not have known about your hunting partner's past, unless he happened to tell you.

Well if that is the case the freakin liberal media should report every single hunting accident to happen in the US every year so that I am informed about who I'm hunting with. Oh whats that? There are WAAAAY too many hunting accidents for them all to be covered on every single news station? Then quit making such a big freakin deal about it. Accidents happen, plain and simple. Cheney is no better or worse than anyone else in this country. He just happens to be the Vice President cause he knows how to kiss @$$. And who cares if the media didn't know IMMEDIATELY. Big deal. They act like it was covered up for months on end. Had I been in the same situation I would have kept it quiet until I knew that the man was getting proper medical attention and his family was notified. At least the man is alive and expected to live. There are thousands of other accidents where the victim isn't nearly so lucky. The democrats are simply looking for another reason to attack hunting and guns in general...

[Khyron]

ahhhhh  damn, me and Dick were going to go hunting tommorow too, glad *I* was informed 

[Brock Samson]

 you guys are idiots... pure and simple... 
  Yes the the whitehouse withheld the info,.. what else you think they're sitting on?.. How about this?.. Who leaked the I.D. of the CIA Op?.

You know nothing about the press, except what you parrot,. liberal media?..
sink your right wing fangs into this juicy tidbit...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/13/starr.execution.ap/

[Headrope]

ahhhhh  damn, me and Dick were going to go hunting tommorow too, glad *I* was informed 

Funny, but too easy. Ultimately the point I was trying to make is that without asking questions one might never know they should have.

Personally I want to know what nobody seems to: Why the Vice President of the United States was on a hunting trip with the guy, and why they chose to hunt on the ranch they did.

[Dave22443]

Here locally this weekend, a "Family Friend" (no one I know) was out hunting with the family this past weekend when he reached inside his SUV to retrieve his shotgun.  It went off inside the truck, blowing a whole right through the side, instantly killing a 7 year old boy that was standing beside the truck.    

This was a very serious accident, but I bet you didn't hear about it in your local news (unless your from the area).

My point is, the reason the media is harping on it is because of who it is.  Accidents can happen to anybody, but it isn't considered news unless your someone famous.  Much like the Princess Diana accident.  It was world news for weeks, but you can bet if she was a nobody, then it would have been a local only story, probably on the third page, with a title something like, "Car wreck claims 3"

[73dodge]

IMPEACH!!!!

He forgot the 7$ hunting fee start a congressional inquiry and demand someone get fired.

Damn media thinks they are soooo important that the administration is obligated to tell them everything that happens no matter what and now it being spun into why it took 24hrs to inform the arrogant news media. The administration must be hiding something covering up that Cheney shot him on purpose because that guy was going to blow the whistle on the Iraqi green cake buy that Saddam sold to Bin Laden to blow up the UN  in new york and Cheney was trying to silence him. Some arrogant bastard reporter asked at the news conference if he was going to hand in his resignation over this and McClellan told him that was an absurd question and he was not going to answer it. 

I hear Dick is going to ask Hillary Clintoon to go pheasant hunting with him next week and I hear Dick is going to use a Barrett .50 Cal for pheasant hunting and Hillary is going to get a BB gun.

[73dodge]

you guys are idiots... pure and simple... 
  Yes the the whitehouse withheld the info,.. what else you think they're sitting on?.. How about this?.. Who leaked the I.D. of the CIA Op?.

You know nothing about the press, except what you parrot,. liberal media?..
sink your right wing fangs into this juicy tidbit...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/13/starr.execution.ap/

What's that I hear the Black Helicopters coming for you................................

CIA OP? She was a desk jockey pure and simple and everyone in Washington DC knew who she was and what she did. She was not "undercover" and sent her husband on an errand.

[Guns N Rotors]

These questions immediately spring to mind:

• Was Cheney the lone gunman as the Government reps claim, or was there a second shooter up on the grassy knoll?

• What about Whittington's connections to Castro, and the New Orleans Mob??

• How does Halliburton profit from all this?

• Lady Bird Johnson, where does she fit into this picture?

• Whittington's head reportedly snapped back when he was shot, but a peppering of #3 buckshot at 263' should normally cause a lawyer to flinch forward and right, forward and right, ....forward and....right.

• Why will they let you into a ballgame with one of those 120 db air-horns, but just try to get in there with one or two quiet, innoffensive 16 oz. Budweiser tall-boys, and you get tossed out on your ear!!

• Women always want you to be honest, but if you tell them those jeans make their butt look fat, they get all mad.

• "Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital" Corpus Christi, literally, the body of Christ. Has anybody checked Dick Cheney for the Mark Of The Beast?

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this.

[NHCharger]

you guys are idiots... pure and simple... 
 

Yes we are.

This was an accident, pure and simple. If this had happened to any of us here it wouldn't even make the front page of our local paper.

[my73charger]

you guys are idiots... pure and simple... 
  Yes the the whitehouse withheld the info,.. what else you think they're sitting on?.. How about this?.. Who leaked the I.D. of the CIA Op?.

You know nothing about the press, except what you parrot,. liberal media?..
sink your right wing fangs into this juicy tidbit...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/13/starr.execution.ap/

Your giving me an article from CNN?  The Clinton News Network?  Bah!

[Big Lebowski]

you guys are idiots... pure and simple... 
  Yes the the whitehouse withheld the info,.. what else you think they're sitting on?.. How about this?.. Who leaked the I.D. of the CIA Op?.

You know nothing about the press, except what you parrot,. liberal media?..
sink your right wing fangs into this juicy tidbit...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/13/starr.execution.ap/

 Yes, this is proof of the liberal media bias....Have you heard the REAL news story??
    Al Gore in Saudia Arabia spent all day bad mouthing America. Saudia Arabia, where 15 of the 9-11 highjackers came from, Al Gore says we're torturing/beating our American Arabs. What a load of crap, and YOUR liberal media is ignoring it.
  The Cheney accident is basically a non-story compared to what that idiot ex Vice Perpetraitor Al Gore said Sat. night.

[Brock Samson]

so whick one of you guys is gonna be the first to enrollin a journaism class?..

[NHCharger]

so whick one of you guys is gonna be the first to enrollin a journaism class?..

My apalakation wus rejerkted fore bein two intllingent.

[74-StreetMachine]

  From the   For What It's Worth Department

   FACTS TO PONDER:

         (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is

        700,000.

        (B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians

        per year are

        120,000.

         (C) Accidental deaths per physician

         is

        0.171.

        Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of

        Health Human Services.

         >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


        Now think about this:

        Guns:

        (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.

         is

         80,000,000.

        (Yes, that's 80 million..)

         >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        (B) The number of accidental gun deaths

        per year, all age groups,

         is

        1,500.

         >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        (C) The number of accidental deaths

        per gun owner

        is

        .000188.

        Statistics courtesy of FBI

          >>>>>>>! ;>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        So, statistically, doctors are approximately

         9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


        Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,

         BUT

        ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        Please alert your friends

        to this

         alarming threat.

        We must ban doctors

        before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        Out of concern for the public at large,

        I withheld the statistics on

        lawyers

        for fear the shock would cause

        people to panic and seek medical attention