BandwidthHog's Journal: Dick Cheney: Cold Blooded Killer!

Courtesy of Yahoo and AP.

Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Whittington was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.

Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday.

Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.

"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.

"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."

She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.

"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."

Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.

"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.

any other dude....

[zogger]

...that guy would be sitting IN JAIL now. You can't just say "whoops" and walk away from it. this is big news, we'll see what happens over it. That doofus is a menace.

Bah!

[sielwolf]

Dick made it to the hospital only by waiting a few minutes and then tracking the blood trail. I hear he had a Desert Eagle with him to do a mercy kill if Whittington didn't go quiet. I know the exact place in the Lincoln bedroom that he'd be perfect to mount.

Hey Dick!

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Nice Shot! Could you go hunting with your friend Scalia more often? We might even stop whining about he didn't recuse himself that one time...

Comb

[FidelCatsro]

You Suck dick Cheney . ;) Place a Comma wherever you want in that .

Contribute to the Cheney/Bush Hunting Fund

[WillAffleckUW]

you too can contribute to providing alcohol and other meds to support Dick Cheney, George Bush, and other White House officials going hunted while severely impaired.

Please give generously.

Also, let's make sure they get the best ammo money can buy ... nothing is too good for our White House.