Jon Stewart: "Never let your kids go on hunting trips with the V.P."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Meantime, the incident provided a laugh bounty for gallows humorists, particularly those of the anti-Bush persuasion. Have at 'em, kids: "Bush-Quail '06," cracked Democratic strategist Jenny Backus. "The CIA assured Cheney that Harry Whittington was actually a pheasant," added Democratic speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum. "The worst part is, he was aiming at the special prosecutor," contributed John Kerry spokesman David Wade.

Democratic staffers on the Hill could be heard singing a parody of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun," using the words "Cheney's got a gun." Or marveling at how "Republicans really don't like lawyers, do they?" or circulating a quote from Bush, in a 2000 interview with the Houston Chronicle, in which he hailed Cheney as "somebody who is going to shoot straight with the American people."

This was just a small sampling, taken from amateur jokesters willing to attach their names to the one-liners.

As for the professionals: On "The Daily Show" last night, Jon Stewart, speaking as a "concerned parent," urged viewers never to let their children go on hunting trips with the vice president. "I can't emphasize this enough," Stewart said. "I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulation they're trying to get lifted. . . . He'll shoot them in the face."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301303_pf.html

[wakeme2008]

1. Watch the video

here http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149 it is GREAT.... :rofl:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. "Harry Whittington, seasoned to an inch of his life"...

You're right. EXCELLENT stuff.

:toast:

[Surya Gayatri]

4. ROFL! Thanks for posting wakeme!

My favorite rif was Corddry with, "Even knowing what he knows today, Cheney would still have shot like he did. Those quail need to understand the US will not back down". SG

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[mcscajun]

8. Thank you, thank you!

What *would* we do without Crooks and Liars? :)

The part where they used the old video game Duck Hunt was hysterical!

[Robeson]

2. That was one of the best Daily Shows...EVER.....

...I was doubled over on that one....:rofl:

[bigscott]

5. what a way to start the day

thank you!

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Democratic staffers on the Hill could be heard singing a parody

of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun.

They must read DU, because someone rewrote the whole song on Sunday and posted it here.


That's right you heard it hear first:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=397939

[liberal N proud]

7. All without a hunting stamp

[Mnemosyne]

9. They sell stamps to hunt lawyers? wow! n/t

[heidiho]

10. Al Franken said "When asked why he shot the man in Texas,

Cheney replied, "Just to watch him die"

[Beer Snob-50]

11. Rush asked his sheep what they would rather do...

get shot by the VP (and get rushed to the doctors for help) or go over a bridge with Ted Kennedy (and you know where that is going).