Shooting victim apologizes to vice president (CNN headline)

[_testify_]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/17/cheney/index.html

Are you fucking kidding me?

He's sorry for what he put Cheney through. OMFG. I'm surrounded by tools.

I can't help but picture some asshole asking his blackeyed-wife or kid 'Why'd you MAKE me do it?'

[adriennui]

1. huh????

WTF.

[_testify_]

5. CNN's website had that headline...

Whittington apologized for getting in the way of the bullets apparently:

"Whittington, speaking to reporters outside the hospital where he was treated, added: 'My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this week.'"
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/17/cheney/index.html

[adriennui]

17. maybe he's trying to be ironic

eom

[Initech]

2. Why is HE apologizing? Why isnt CHENEY the one apologizing?

Oh wait, they never apologize for anything. :mad:

[realisticphish]

3. sorry

sorry sir, for making you miss that quail!

[_testify_]

7. think Cheney'll make Harry reimburse him for the ammo?

[Oreo]

4. "sprayed Whittington with birdshot"

"Cheney sprayed Whittington with birdshot on his face and upper torso in Saturday's hunting accident."

He shot him! He didn't spray him



Why isn't anybody in the media questioning why he said Friday... it's like it was too obvious for them to hear it.

[_testify_]

6. the funniest was a DUer who said

Cheney 'spritzed' him! :rofl:

I agree about the 'Friday' slip. You'd think someone besides us would pick up on that.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. The freepers picked up on it, but they think it was just a mistake.

Merely a slip of the tongue.

[Snotcicles]

8. To think I was feeling sorry for the old cog. Not only does he have

a blackeye, now he has a brown ring around his nose.

[_testify_]

10. No shit. I can't believe he could utter those words without laughing

or crying.

How can you get shot in the face by someone else (an 'experienced' hunter no less) and blame yourself?

Did Dick call the hospital room and tell him he'd finish the job if he didn't take the blame?

[Snotcicles]

13. They told him there is an opening as head of FEMA coming up

and if he plays ball. say nomore say nomore.

[shance]

11. Does this show us who owns the CNN message.

Media Industrial Complex.

[Rocknrule]

12. So the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust should apologize to Hitler?

Will someone please hold these fucks accountable for SOMETHING?

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. He was probably paid millions to say that. A very expensive hunting

trip for Dead eye Dick, that was.

[nini]

15. I took this more as a statement that it all got blown out of proportion

Not an apology that he was shot.


HOWEVER, I truly believe he's protecting himself and his family from any further crap by being 'forgiving'.

[MrBenchley]

16. And the official report's diagram is all wrong....

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdiag0217,0,7292010.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Yeah, this story is just going to fade away.....(snicker)

[Dees]

18. This entire shooting thing is just friggin nuts.

A victim apologizing to the shooter for causing he and his wife so much trouble. Goddamn it it's just so friggin crazy.