Accidental shooting...YESTERDAY!!

[Casandra]

This whole thing happened yesterday. Once again, covered and coddled until some person decided it was okay to disclose it to us 'peons'..

[malaise]

1. or was afraid it was going to get out n/t

[xultar]

2. Kool-aid drinkers have proof of the media control now.

[southernleftylady1]

3. yeah i posed this question on the two threads about the shooting

makes ya think doesnt it?

[otohara]

4. Made Sure the Old Guy

wasn't going to die. Imagine if the man would have died and what outrageous lie they would have told to cover it up

[BuyingThyme]

5. I wonder when or if a police report was filed.

That could be interesting.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. They decided that killing everyone who worked at the hospital was going

to be too expensive, LOL.

[Jane Austin]

7. I had so hoped Cheney had returned to South Carolina to hunt,

so we could have some fun with the whole plantation thing.

Darn.

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) - Colleton County authorities say Vice President Dick Cheney made a trip to South Carolina to hunt ducks with a group of elected officials.

Sheriff's Major Steve Bazzle says Cheney arrived in a military helicopter at the Pon Pon Plantation Monday night and left before lunch on Tuesday.

A Charleston newspaper says the vice president was joined by Governor Mark Sanford, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator-elect Jim DeMint. Spokesmen for those officials would not confirm or deny the reports.

A Colleton County EMS ambulance was on the grounds during the entire visit. Cheney has a heart condition.

Pon Pon is a large, private estate owned by George Dean Johnson of Spartanburg. It is next to the Hope Plantation, which belongs to Ted Turner.


 Updated: 12/22/2004 8:54:03 AM

[Mabus]

8. I hate when they don't do the totally convenient thing

so we can have double the fun. But this is good enough on its own.

[Jane Austin]

9. You're right. I'm just being greedy.

:)

[Mabus]

10. But for good reason

Thanks for the info about the Plantation. I didn't know it before. However, now that I do, I'm like you I'll look for a reason to use it.

[Jane Austin]

13. Here's more, um, ammo.

In an excellent Michael Kinsley column titled "Plantation Politics and Other Games" he points out the Wall Street Journal's hypocracy on the Plantatioin issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701219.html

What's especially impressive is how the get-Hillary campaign was not even slowed by the discovery that Newt Gingrich had used the same metaphor back when he was somebody. A hilarious op-ed this week in the Wall Street Journal explained that while Hillary's remark was "pandering" and patronizing ("Must blacks have their slave past rubbed in their face . . .?"), Gingrich "had the good taste to cast himself as a slave who would 'lead the slave rebellion.' " Well, each to his own good taste, I suppose.

But that metaphor of a corrupt plantation seemed more familiar than just one of Newt's old ravings. And indeed the Wall Street Journal editorial page has used it more than once. In 2001, for example, the man who now runs that page, Paul Gigot, wrote (in reference to Sen. Joe Lieberman) about "how . . . the black liberal establishment can punish a Democrat who strays from their plantation." The previous year, an editorial about the Massachusetts congressional delegation carried the headline, "The Liberal Plantation."

And then (just to show what a little Googling can do), there was a small 2001 item in the Wall Street Journal's news section about Vice President Cheney spending the weekend shooting quail at the "plantation" of a rich Republican contributor. Hillary Clinton uses the word "plantation" while Dick Cheney actually goes to one. But that's the Democrats for you: all talk and no action.

[Mabus]

14. Thanks, can never have enough

[oneighty]

12. There are hundreds

of old rice ponds in that area. Rich people have been known to 'Salt' the ponds with rice in order to 'capture' the ducks. It is a criminal act which every now and then gets enforced. Elite assholes each and every one.

180

[LevelB]

11. Heres a good question.

Where is Cheney right now? Has he been whisked away to an "undisclosed location" for his protection? Has he made a statement to local law enforcement?

In other words, does he play by the rules?

B.