Now, I had to make sure the injured party was ok before I started making jokes about the situation. Since Whittington is listed in stable condition, let the jabs begin!
Whittington was treated on the scene by Cheney's traveling medical detail before being taken by helicopter to a Corpus Christi hospital. He was in the intensive care unit at Christus Spohn Health System and listed in stable condition yesterday evening.
This whole situation gives us new ideas about how to deal with Bin Laden. Just send him on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney. Make sure you send them to a private ranch in Texas!
The first person who spots a political cartoon of Dick Cheney denying he ever shot Whittington, PLEASE send it to me!
Other political cartoon ideas:
Cheney thinks Whittington has weapons of mass destruction
Whittington asks Cheney to marry him and come out the closet, so Cheney shoots him in "self-defense"
Cheney thinks Whittington is a part of Al Qaeda
Conservatives will scream foul because liberals are making fun of the situation. Fuck 'em! They would do the same thing if Bill Clinton or Al Gore accidentally shot someone on a hunting trip.
Oh yeah, I'd love to read any conspiracy theories about this accident; the wilder, the better.
(CBS/AP) Questions are being raised about why it took the Bush administration a full day to disclose the news that Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a companion on a weekend hunting trip.
The incident occurred Saturday but was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours.
Update: 02/14/06 1:20 pm
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had "a minor heart attack" Tuesday morning, hospital officials said.
Source: Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack
Sources told ABC News that the vice president's team had debated issuing a statement early Sunday morning per the White House's request. But sources said Cheney's team decided it would be more credible to allow ranch owner and witness Katharine Armstrong to make the information public.
Armstrong is the daughter of a former Halliburton official who hired Cheney as CEO.
This should be no suprise; that Administration has always done things EXACTLY the way they please.
If Google's a corporation non grata these days at least thank God for its cache function. That's the one that allows you to see a snapshot of a page even after it's been removed from the site.
That's what happened with a little mention of beer at a pre-shooting party attended by the veep on MSNBC's website. According to David Allen . . .
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) -- Vice President Dick Cheney, publicly silent since accidentally shooting a Texas lawyer while hunting last week, will offer his first words on the incident Wednesday, the White House said.
So far, local authorities have said the shooting was simply an accident with no misconduct involved.
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But if Whittington were to die, local district attorney Carlos Valdez said there could be a more-thorough investigation, including possibly a grand jury probe that might end up issuing criminal charges such as negligence or reckless behavior.
If I read that correctly, authorities won't bother going after Cheney unless Whittington dies -- regardles of the fact that there was indeed misconduct. Perhaps this is why that Administration thinks it can do whatever the hell it wants. Police don't give a fuck unless someone dies.
Cheney said he had no regrets about his decision to allow his host, Katharine Armstrong, to disclose the accident by calling her local newspaper in Corpus Christi. ``I thought it made good sense for several reasons,'' Cheney said in the Fox interview.
Giving the Account
The vice president said Armstrong was an eyewitness to the incident, had grown up on the ranch and hunted there throughout her life, and was an ``acknowledged expert'' on hunting. Cheney added that he did not have a press aide traveling with him on the weekend trip.
If I understand Cheney correctly, he's basically saying the public trusts Armstrong more than we trust the Vice President of the United States. Well . . . I would agree with that!
ABC Australia has a condensed version of Cheney's comments: I'm to blame. . .
Note: Updates to this post will happen as new information surfaces.