"Guns Don't Kill People, Vice-Presidents Do"
That really should be the NRA's new slogan.
Over the past weekend, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Harry Wittington, a companion on a quail hunting trip.
Many facets about the story don't hold water. Supposedly, this shot was fired from 92ft away (though other reports say 30ft). But either way, there's not much velocity on a spread shot like that, as compared to a regular bullet. When firing such a gun, you're trying to spray a wide are to hit a small, easily penetrated target - a bird - not blast through hard bone and cartilage like ribs, the sternum, and the muscle structure of the chest.
Cheney then didn't rush Harry to the hospital and wait there to see if he was ok, he went and had dinner at the ranch. If you shot your friend, would you send him off to the hospital and then go eat dinner? Would you even be ABLE to eat after that? Cheney then waited 22 hours before talking to the Sheriff, and the Secret Service turned away the low-level cops who hadn't gotten the memo to ignore this and were still acting like regular cops when they showed up at the ranch to investigate.
If this gentleman had died, even WITH the obvious cover-up, Cheney would have been guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Involuntary manslaughter is when someone did not intend to cause death or serious injury but cause the death of another through recklessness or criminal negligence. The law differentiates between voluntary and involuntary based upon mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind").
Of course, since Cheney was hunting without a proper permit, he probably should have been charged with misdemeanor manslaughter, which is when a person causes the death of another while committing a misdemeanor violation of the law.
And who was the man who was shot? What is his relationship with Cheney? How does he know the Vice President?
Well, let's do the math:
But at Faux News, they are spinning, spinning, spinning --- unsuccessfully.
Dick Morris: It's hard to speculate, but usually when there is something like this alcohol is involved....
Sean Hannity: You're insinuating he was drunk which is totally irresponsible.
Dick Morris: Well why would he not go to the hospital?---He could have followed him in a car.
Sean Hannity: The Vice President, who does not have a history of drinking at all, was stumbling down drunk?
More proof that nothing you hear on Rightwing Faux News is true... Fact is, Dick Cheney has not one, but two DUI's on his record, and was forced to leave Yale University because his love of beer dwarfed his love of learning.
Boy, if you get kicked out of college for drinking..... now THAT'S BAD.... You must have had a keg permanently attached to your face.
But for Hannity? Nope, that's no drinking problem at all.....
The DUI's? "Youthful indiscretions"..... Just like Bush's similar "youthful" indiscretions with alcohol - in his mid-40's.
During his softball interview on Faux News, Cheney said this was the, "Worst day of his life." One can't help but ask the question, "Gee Mr. Cheney, I wonder how those soldiers you sent off to Iraq for no reason feel when they have to shoot some angry 15 year old kid in the confusion inherent to the battlefield? Do you have any compassion for them now?"
But now Mr Witttington and his pock-marked and bruised face, has held a press conference to lay the blame where it properly belongs. On himself. Not with the moron who fired the gun. Now why on EARTH would someone do that.....?
Who gets shot in the face by someone ELSE, then says it was THEIR OWN fault, and takes the blame for the man who actually did the shooting?
Only somebody neck deep in incriminating naughtiness himself.
But Ann Coulter refers to all this as just a "bumbling incident". Ann...... a "bumbling incident" is when President Ford falls down the stairs. Shooting a guy in the FACE is a tad bit more significant, you twit.
Over the past weekend, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Harry Wittington, a companion on a quail hunting trip.
Many facets about the story don't hold water. Supposedly, this shot was fired from 92ft away (though other reports say 30ft). But either way, there's not much velocity on a spread shot like that, as compared to a regular bullet. When firing such a gun, you're trying to spray a wide are to hit a small, easily penetrated target - a bird - not blast through hard bone and cartilage like ribs, the sternum, and the muscle structure of the chest.
Cheney then didn't rush Harry to the hospital and wait there to see if he was ok, he went and had dinner at the ranch. If you shot your friend, would you send him off to the hospital and then go eat dinner? Would you even be ABLE to eat after that? Cheney then waited 22 hours before talking to the Sheriff, and the Secret Service turned away the low-level cops who hadn't gotten the memo to ignore this and were still acting like regular cops when they showed up at the ranch to investigate.
If this gentleman had died, even WITH the obvious cover-up, Cheney would have been guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Involuntary manslaughter is when someone did not intend to cause death or serious injury but cause the death of another through recklessness or criminal negligence. The law differentiates between voluntary and involuntary based upon mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind").
Of course, since Cheney was hunting without a proper permit, he probably should have been charged with misdemeanor manslaughter, which is when a person causes the death of another while committing a misdemeanor violation of the law.
And who was the man who was shot? What is his relationship with Cheney? How does he know the Vice President?
Well, let's do the math:
- Wittington gave the GOP $100,000.
- He also gave George $40,000 for his campaign.
- He was a lawyer for Kenyon International, the company whose subsidiary was guilty of the body-dumping scandal in Texas - the one Dubya put a stop to the investigation/prosecution of while he was Governor.
- The same company that got the no-bid contract to "clean" up the bodies left on the streets after Katrina.
- And there are hearings being held about Katrina presently.
But at Faux News, they are spinning, spinning, spinning --- unsuccessfully.
Dick Morris: It's hard to speculate, but usually when there is something like this alcohol is involved....
Sean Hannity: You're insinuating he was drunk which is totally irresponsible.
Dick Morris: Well why would he not go to the hospital?---He could have followed him in a car.
Sean Hannity: The Vice President, who does not have a history of drinking at all, was stumbling down drunk?
More proof that nothing you hear on Rightwing Faux News is true... Fact is, Dick Cheney has not one, but two DUI's on his record, and was forced to leave Yale University because his love of beer dwarfed his love of learning.
Boy, if you get kicked out of college for drinking..... now THAT'S BAD.... You must have had a keg permanently attached to your face.
But for Hannity? Nope, that's no drinking problem at all.....
The DUI's? "Youthful indiscretions"..... Just like Bush's similar "youthful" indiscretions with alcohol - in his mid-40's.
During his softball interview on Faux News, Cheney said this was the, "Worst day of his life." One can't help but ask the question, "Gee Mr. Cheney, I wonder how those soldiers you sent off to Iraq for no reason feel when they have to shoot some angry 15 year old kid in the confusion inherent to the battlefield? Do you have any compassion for them now?"
But now Mr Witttington and his pock-marked and bruised face, has held a press conference to lay the blame where it properly belongs. On himself. Not with the moron who fired the gun. Now why on EARTH would someone do that.....?
Who gets shot in the face by someone ELSE, then says it was THEIR OWN fault, and takes the blame for the man who actually did the shooting?
Only somebody neck deep in incriminating naughtiness himself.
But Ann Coulter refers to all this as just a "bumbling incident". Ann...... a "bumbling incident" is when President Ford falls down the stairs. Shooting a guy in the FACE is a tad bit more significant, you twit.
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