ANOTHER THING I WON’T BE DOING SOON… by Steve Nadis
I already mentioned how I’m not anxious to go cross-country running in the woods of Metro Boston, what with the current boom in suburban hunting going strong. Here’s another thing I won’t be doing soon: hunting with vice president Cheney. That’s where Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and I part ways: He went duck hunting with Cheney, while I refuse. Scalia emerged from that outing unscathed, so far as I know, whereas Harry Whittington wasn’t so lucky. Cheney “peppered” him “pretty good” with birdshot (injuring his right side from chest to check) while the two were quail hunting last weekend. Whittington, who was in the process of retrieving a downed quail at the time, never saw it coming.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Cheney mocked John Kerry for being a “photo opportunity” hunter rather than a real hunter, but Cheney never said what he meant by a real hunter. Now we know.
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15:44:02
Good one, Snake!
Cheney might be a little more adept at handling a firearm if he hadn’t gotten those five military deferments during the Vietnam war.
I like the folksy description they used, “peppered pretty good”, for a guy that had to be airlifted to an intensive care unit. Then again, I bet he’s getting pretty good medical care at the moment. It would very bad for Cheney if this guy were to die any time soon.
Thanks for the note, Whitey. Yeah, I couldn’t help thinking about the last thing you said…
We were coming up with taglines that we expected to hear on the various talk shows regarding Cheney’s “accident”.
Guns don’t kill people, Vice-Presidents kill people.
Maybe we could send invitations to all the lawyers to go hunting with the Vice-President.
Why couldn’t it have been Johnnie Cochran?
I didn’t know there was a “Lawyer season”, where can I get a permit?
Quail, Lawyer, Quail, Lawyer. See the difference? Me neither.
MsAmber
I’m not going hunting with Cheney either. I was wondering if he was having some sort of bad LSD trip and thought his friend was Bin Laden……..
Interesting theory WFW. I hear there’s a lot of that [bad acid] going around.
Oh I’d go hunting with him, but I would want Kevlar……lots and lots of Kevlar.
OK, fine, shoot a Whittington. How do you cook it?
Pretty funny FW, but is that joke in poor taste?
By the way, some great lines Amber–some worthy of the Great Bumpersticker Sweepstakes.
Kevlar, huh Doc? I’ll keep it in mind when I go running in the woods around here.
Slipping a valentine in your mailbox…..Happy V Day Snake! P.S. Did you hear they found the Weapons of Mass Destruction? Dick Cheney had them all along! HAHAHA
Predicted headline for tomorrow’s Boston Herald (or your own local tabloid): Veep Victim Shot in Heart!
It appears Cheney “peppered him pretty good” alright.
I want to hear more about the coverup attempt. Scott McClellan claims he didn’t know that Cheney was the shooter until 3 a.m. the next morning (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060213-4.html#b). Is it really possible that Cheney sat on this thing for 9 hours before letting the White House in on it?
Thanks Whitey, you raise some good & provocative points.