Shoot first, aim later!

[LoHo]

I understand that, Pat, but he's the Vice President! The idea that he could keep his shooting a hunting partner under wraps is ridiculous! If I shot someone in the same accidental fashion, no one but the people involved would care. He's the VP! He should know better and be more open.
If I happened to stain the front of some pudgy intern's dress, no one would care, either, but for some guys, it becomes a big deal. Cheney has forgotten both parts of "public servant."

[trbig]

I think the media is just pissed off because they didn't know about the scoop before that small time paper. The vice prez... living under a microscope.... THEY think he should have told the world sooner?? &!@#$ them! They only care when it's dirt and they can make someone look bad. How many news reports have you heard about him visiting kids in hospitals... or any type of "Good" thing??? Nothing.
The guy is human.... he screwed up.... he shot a friend. Wouldn't YOU feel like crap? Would you run right to the newspaper and tell them what you did, when every motion you make... every word you utter, every single thing you do gets annalyzed, twisted, and cut for a sound or video bite? People's lives and careers are affected by what he may or may not say. I would have waited too. The world's thirst for everybody else's business makes me sick. Nothing seems to be news worthy unless it's tearing someone down, juicy gossip, or just plain ol' bad news.
Cheney has just gone through a bad experience, and if it takes a week... he should be able to talk to the press.. when HE'S ready... not when the press thinks he should be. The 24 hours before the world found out isn't a conspiracy. Does the fact that he shot someone by accident affect you or I?? The world economy?? Our relations with other countries?? Nope.. just juicy gossip for the mud mongers. Yeah, he chose a life in the public eye, but should we really be involved in every aspect of it? Do we need to know how many bowel movements a week, or when he has sexual relations with his wife?? It remeinds me of the little old ladies back in the 50's... watching out the windows... nosing around trying to figure out everyone else's business. For some reason... today.... it's acceptable.

Tod

[xs650mike]

Listening to the news on my car radio just now I heard that at his press conference the VP stated that the White House staff had urged him to issue an immediate statement regarding the incident but that he put it off until the next day. IMO, that was really bad judgement, no matter how upset he may have been. It would be expected that the press would make a big deal out of this but delaying until someone else told the press makes it look to many like he was trying to keep it under wraps. If you don't choose to believe his account then you also have to believe he was trying to keep it under wraps and we know how this administration likes to rely on "plausible deniability". Either way a bonehead play after a really bonehead play. The cartoonists and comedians are having a field day at his expense. Some of the milder ones:








Others have been positively vicious. Interestingly he wasn't required to take the Texas gun safety course because he was a senior, if he had been 12 years old he would have taken the course which more than likely would have prevented the accident. At 30 ft., he's damned lucky that he didn't kill the guy.

[GNEPIG]

.. uh oh, looks like they're trying to get him in trouble with this now.. i wonder if the 10, 20, LIFE applies here?

[xs650mike]

In the shape he's in he'll be lucky to live out his term of office. If his ticker goes I wonder who the president will appoint in his place.

[BLUEJEEPLAB]

I'd agree with that and remind everyone that one of the favorites (his initials are TK and his brother was a heck of a good president) of those doing the loudest yelling actually left the scene of his accident only to be found hours later at home. Of course there was a lot of hullaballoo around that one too, but someone died there.

I guess it's just too bad it's been a slow news week, then we wouldn't have to hear all this crap. Maybe we need a good natural disaster again... I know, I'm sick, but I enjoy ot.

[xs650mike]

Hey, the Katrina thing ain't over, the press just lost interest. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still a total mess.

[fredintoon]

Be sure of your target and beyond

one of the ten commandments of hunter safety.
Farmers in the prairie Provinces make special efforts to accomodate US hunters. Cattle are marked COW in big white letters both sides. One US hunter triumphantly displaying his freshly shot moose was effusively praising the Canadian game wardens for their pro-active wildlife management program.
"nobody stateside" sez he "would take the effort to shoe them."
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[xs650mike]

It was bound to happen...

Someone was bound to write a song about Cheney's accident. Just heard this on the Sunday afternoon radio show "Panhandle Country". Here is Mark Graham performing his newly written song with Laurie Lewis' band at the Wintergrass Festival in Oregon. Downloaded it off her website. Whether or not you like old timey country music or love or hate the vice president, you're bound to like this song. Download it here: http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=8430594

[JWSanders]

I just saw this and found it rather humorous:

http://www.toonedin.com/cheney.html