Poor Mr. Whittington! "His face looks like chicken pox, kind of " >>>

[Stephanie]

Oh, so it was the ranch owner's job to report the incident. Many, many excuses here for why they kept the shooting secret.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1611601&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

The accident was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.

McBride said the vice president's office did not tell reporters about the accident Saturday because they were deferring to Armstrong to handle the announcement of what happened on her property.

Armstrong said everyone at the ranch was so "focused" on Whittington's health Saturday that it wasn't until Sunday she called the Caller-Times to report the accident. Her ranch is about 60 miles southwest of Corpus Christi.

Sally Whittington told The Dallas Morning News her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck. His face "looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said.

Emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington before he was taken first to a hospital in Kingsville and then transferred to Corpus Christi.

Sally Whittington told The Dallas Morning News her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck. His face "looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said.

Attorney Harry Whittington, 78, is shown in his office in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 25, 2005. Whittington was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Kelly West)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060212/480/txaus10102122119

[peekaloo]

1. "Okay here's the story"

Cheney called an audible.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Then why did it take 3 HOURS to get him to the hospital!

Especially since this guy was in bad enough shape that they put him in Intensive Care.

Of course since Whittington helped fix the Funeralgate scandal for Bush, I expect he will help Cheney cover up this mess too.




The chairman of the TFSC, Harry Whittington, who was appointed by Bush in 1999, says he had looked into the various allegations against the commission and Robbins, and found nothing to substantiate them. The "board feels very confident in our executive director and the pattern we are pursuing," Whittington said. However, the board's confidence could be tested if Monreal and Almasov follow through with their threats to sue the agency for wrongful termination.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-05-14/pols_feature.html

[Stephanie]

6. Why did they have to transfer him from the local hospital?

I assume Cheney's helicopter took him to Corpus Christi. Why?

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Wouldn't they go to the first hospital??

:shrug:

[Stephanie]

29. yes but his condition must have been very serious if he had to be moved

[gademocrat7]

3. We will never know the true reason this happened.

With crash cart calling the shots, anything is possible.

[LiberalinNC]

4. The reporter on GMA today blamed Whittington for being shot!

Said "HE should have announced himself" when he approached Cheney.

[monarch]

9. That's OK

Now another segment of the population (hunters) can understand how the media lies to protect the regime.

[dmkinsey]

17. Well, geez yeah!

Sneakin' around in a field when Cheney has a gun is just ASKIN' to be shot.
People have to assume personal responsibility.:sarcasm:

Anyway, he should have said "Can you hear me now?"

[Ladyhawk]

43. Yeah, I'm sure they would have bagged a lot of birds that way.

"HELLO! I'M HERE!!!"

:eyes:

No wonder Cheney shot himself a Whittington (or however you spell his name).

As a kid I did some hunting, but didn't like the "morals" my father, brother and their hunting buddies conveyed, so I opted out. They poached a lot and were cruel even to the dogs. I've seen a bear shot out of a tree and believe me, it isn't a pretty sight. I've also seen bobcats, raccoons and other animals killed for no good reason. It's stupid and sickening, especially when the carcass is left in the woods to rot.

I hope you're reading this, Rico Oller, you disgusting slime bucket. I am so glad Humane USA got you booted out of politics. I hope you stay booted. You are a disgusting human being and I am angry I was exposed to your "ideals" when I was too young and impressionable to know better. I noticed you now have a Wikipedia entry. Hmmmm...maybe I should tell the world about the "good dog hole" and the "bad dog hole"...think they'd like that?

I won't shoot anything these days, not even targets, even though I used to be a pretty decent shot. I may get back into archery with a simple recurve bow just for the pleasure of it. Someday. :shrug:

[Stephanie]

19. yup, when you've got three people hunting at once

it's hard to keep track of everybody

ty for the valentines! whoever you are...

[mwb970]

21. I gather that this won't wash with real hunters.

If you shoot someone, it's your fault. Period.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Doesn't Cheney have eyes?

[txindy]

34. I guess he'd prefer someone yelling and scaring off his prey.

Then, again, maybe that's what happened and Darth got so ticked off he changed prey. :shrug:

[H2O Man]

5. Strange.

I would associate a wound pattern that resembles chicken pox with bird shot. This fellow was struck with buck shot.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. Just wondering: what's the difference?

I know nothing on hunting.

[H2O Man]

36. Size.

Bird shot is the approximate size of a BB; buck shot is larger. I think it is likely he was actually hit with birdshot. I think it is even more likely that the full story is not being released. For example, the shot hit him at a distance of either 30 feet or 30 yards (I've read both), and none struck him above the cheekbone. That would indicate that VP Cheney was not aiming at a bird in flight.

[Stephanie]

39. they said he was aiming at a covey

I think he was drunk.

[onenote]

26. I'd bet it was birdshot not buckshot

The fact that some of the stories initially referred to buckshot probably reflects assumptions by reporters that don't know the difference.

onenote

[liberal N proud]

7. WIth F*@% YOU Dick, how do we know that Whittington didn't say

something that pissed him off and since he had a gun, he shot him.
How do we know that he wouldn't have shot in the Senate Chamber if he would have had a gun.

[Botany]

8. Corpus Christi Blues? Big ups to J. Cash

When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."
But I shot a lawyer in Texas just to watch him cry
And waited 24 hours to tell ... I still don't know why.

I hear the reporters coming' they are coming down the hall
so I am going to hide .... I will let Armstrong make the call
So I am stuck in this Corpus Christi Hospital and time keeps dragging on
And this story keeps a rolling, boy you should have heard that lawyer moan.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. He does kind of have jaws and a neck like a turkey.

"Waddles" I think they call those(growths)things...

[Skidmore]

11. He's lucky he didn't lose an eye.

[ShortnFiery]

15. Do we really know that he has NOT lost an eye? /eom

We know nothing save for what the Bush-World gatekeepers let us know. :scared:

[tanyev]

12. The reporter for the Corpus Christi newspaper was on GMA.

Very young. She said they "broke" the story when the ranch owner called their newspaper to tell them. Ranch owner notifies young reporter at small local newspaper. Ahuh. She also said "I started transcribing what she was telling me." Ahuh.

[ShortnFiery]

16. I wonder if it really was the "Ranch Owner"

It initially was reported as "a member of the Armstrong family."

This is surreal! This could be BIG! If only our press was free. :(

[FreedomAngel82]

25. So why would they

tell a reporter first before taking him to the hospital? :shrug:

[tanyev]

32. No, I think the phone call came 24 hrs after the incident.

[Clark2008]

37. Well, actually, you WOULD transcribe what the ranch

owner told you, but then you'd go get the fucking police report to verify it. Stupid reporter.

Who's seen the police report? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

[Clark2008]

38. DUPE

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. That man is probably the happiest lawyer in the United States today.

[Stephanie]

14. no doubt!

all he has to do is keep his mouth shut.



Who gave me hearts? :hi: :)

[rodeodance]

18. the press in Tx was sleeping or told to sleep.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. So why all the excuses??

:shrug: I wonder too. It's all strange. He looks very nice for seventy-eight!

[Igel]

27. Everything has to be reported to the press?

Don't they look at police logs and that kind of thing?

I wasn't aware the press had some sort of official reporting status. As far as I knew, nobody ever had to tell the press.

[Stephanie]

30. Really? The Vice President of the United States SHOOTS SOMEONE IN THE FACE

And you don't think his spokesman should maybe explain to the press that the VP's had a little accident? You think that's nobody's business? I think there's a job for you on Dick's staff.

[Igel]

41. No, I don't.

I figure it would come out as a matter of course, but I don't expect everything bad or embarrassing that happens on down time to be a public matter unless there's a crime involved. My "right to know" does not have a parallel "imposed obligation to tell".

It came out. It's unclear if there was a crime involved. Let the sheriff's office deal with it, and render its judgment. I'm afraid by then every single quote and misquote will have been etched into stone, so no matter what the sheriff concludes--accurate or no--it won't matter. Accusing somebody of attempted murder, drunkenness, or whatever is stupid if the facts don't support it. People confuse hyperbole with accuracy sometimes, and it's lamentable.

I didn't expect Big Dog to trumpet that he got some in the Oval Office during his "up time". The privacy argument cuts both ways. Shooting somebody by accident (giving him the benefit of the doubt) is arguably better--or worse--than fellatio (committed in a moment of weakness--I extend doubt to both officials). Although I must say, trying to come up with "accidental" scenarios for fellatio is a mildly amusing endeavor.
:evilgrin:

[Bridget Burke]

45. The sheriff's office tried to "deal with it"...

But the Secret Service did not cooperate. Depends on whom you believe.

CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer reports Texas authorities are complaining that the Secret Service barred them from speaking to Cheney after the incident. Kenedy County Texas Sheriffs Lt. Juan Guzman said deputies first learned of the shooting when an ambulance was called.

But the Secret Service told a different story, saying agents had informed the local sheriff of the shooting about an hour after it happened and that the vice president had been interviewed about the accident by local authorities on Sunday morning, CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante reports.

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/13/national/printable1309344.shtml

[im10ashus]

28. He looks like THE MAN from those Verizon commercials.

Or whatever those are for. I guess THE MAN wasn't sticking it to anyone.

[Straight Shooter]

31. "everyone ... was so focused on Whittington's health," blah blah blah

[Stephanie]

33. they were trying to get their stories straight

we need to talk to the cooks and dishwashers - that's how we'll find out how much liquor they drank at lunch.

[txindy]

35. So focussed that it took them more than 2 hours to get him to hospital.

Talk about focus! :eyes: Their story reeks. Simply reeks.

[Straight Shooter]

40. Try to imagine the media hyenas if Bill Clinton had done this.

And he's not even in office anymore. So far there doesn't seem to be enough deep digging into this matter, except of course for the always vigilant DU'ers.

I think that Cheney -- maybe subconsciously, maybe not -- is looking for a way to exit from the spotlight. If he resigns because he can say his health issues are creating fatigue and he doesn't want to make mistakes, that would be better for his arrogant ego than to be forced to step down. Of course, unless he pulls a Pinochet, the Hague might await him yet. :D

[xxqqqzme]

42. "...Emergency personnel traveling with Cheney...."

exactly how many and how much R they costing us 2 look after darth cheney.

[BringEmOn]

44. So, Junior walks into Whittington's hospital room and says..

"a heh a heh...Hey, Whitty!...what's par for your face?....a heh a heh.."