...a friend of a friend of mine went hunting last week with Cheney-target Harry Whittington

[laststeamtrain]

...a friend of a friend of mine went hunting last week with Cheney-target Harry Whittington who was shot just about two years ago. In fact, the two year anniversary of the cloak-and-dagger hunting accident featuring Cheney shooting his campaign contributor will be February 11th.

According to my source, Whittington commented that the press really got played by Cheney's team not only in the delayed reporting -- but in how serious Whittington's situation really was. According to my source, he nearly died and to this day, still carries quite a few metal pellets in him. But the seriousness of his condition was underplayed by Cheney's team and in the press.

I wonder what would have happened if Whittington had accidentally shot the VP? Let's not go there. . .

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002785.php

[Skittles]

1. Whittington played the huge repuke whore

apologizing for what the VP went through - please - and that's when he wasn't shooting birds who could barely get off the ground - what a fucking coward :puke:

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Let's see. One of the half-dozen most dangerous men in the world

SHOOTS YOU IN THE FACE - wouldn't you be inclined to say EXACTLY what he wants you to?

I reckon if he told the truth he'd have had a fatal accident within weeks (totally unconnected to the shooting, of course).

[Skittles]

10. he was hunting with his buddy Dick

that's enough to make him one sickening piece of shit

[truedelphi]

2. For one thing, you probably wouldn't have had Dick Cheney

Apologizing for ruining Whittington's week.

But for whatever reason, Whittington apologized for the trauma he caused Cheney. (Did one of the metal pellets lodge in the guy's brain or what?)

Any way, it all sounded like revenge of the Quail!! Talk about Karma...

[Mind_your_head]

3. Nice gossip ......

but ah, that doesn't exactly send me (or 'others') into arrythmia....

Just sayin'

[JackRiddler]

4. Now this is the power of a true in-your-face mafia (excuse the pun)

The boss shoots a guy in the face (accidentally, WHATEVER, like it would have mattered if it had been intentional). Then everyone on the scene agrees on the story and the wording (Whittington was, you know, "peppered"). The victim himself crawls and wheezes out of ICU for a press conference on the hospital steps. He APOLOGIZES for any inconvenience he's caused to his good friend, the shooter.

Can this be topped? No.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Perhaps, because the real story was that Cheney was drunk....

...like a good little alcoholic.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. No, lots of us get drunk

but most of us have the God given sense not to play with our guns when we drink.

[lpbk2713]

7. Drunk on his ass.

And it was even before lunch time.

[nightrider767]

8. The Angry Bitter Hunter...

Bottle of Bourbon in one hand, shotgun in the other, lifetime of bitterness to deal with.

Rot in hell CHaney. They better post a Blackwater guard over your grave because I got a bladder full of pee "earmarked" for your tombstone.

[JVS]

11. lol, good times

[orleans]

12. i am amazed whittington could walk

he certainly has no fucking spine whatsoever!