Cheney was so upset over 'shooting his friend' that he sat down to dinner

". . . Cheney stayed “close but cool” while the agents and medical personnel treated Whittington, then took him by ambulance to the hospital. Later, the hunting group sat down for dinner while Whittington was being treated . . ."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20060214-0016-cheney.html

recived any new contracts over lunch.

service men feel?

Evil to the Core!

Past tense. I can only wonder why.

When he turns in his resignation.

Cheney is toast.

Did you see the photo of mary Matalin as they walked back to the White House after the Fox taping? She looked scared, rattled.

At this point, Cheney is nothing but a huge liability for the White House. He's like an anchor, dragging them all down with him. It's time to cut him loose. I betcha they're discussing that, right now.

poor thing. :sarcasm:

The son of someone I work with works in D.C. and always complains about how Cheney shuts down all the streets in town when he comes to work and when he goes home. However, yesterday Cheney's entourage came flying down the street, uncharacteristically without any sirens or anything, but still taking the right of way. In fact, Cheney almost hit her son who was horrified at how dangerous this was and how close he was to being hurt by Cheney. Cheney's hardly calm.

Why weren't they at the hospital?

the revealing part was that he sat down to dinner. All of the talk of being too involved with concern about the man's health was replaced today by a weak excuse about getting the story straight. That's what was discussed at dinner. That's why he was upset when they sat down to plot his alibi. They decided there and then that they would dribble the story out through local news and hope it was treated as a novelty story. Hell, Dick didn't even tell Bush he was the shooter till it came out. This was a cover-up, a scheme to minimize the shooting, orchestrated by Dick and the rancher.

It didn't work. Dick took days to put together all of the information that is public with all of the alibis they cooked up at the after-shooting feast and he's now ready to sell it to a gullible public through his mouthpiece, Fox news.

I think this exchange is revealing and should be shot full of holes:


Cheney Breaks Silence on Shooting in Interview

"I thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting and then it would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the Web site, which is the way it went out and I thought that was the right call," Cheney said.

"What do you think now?" he was asked.

"I still do," Cheney responded. "The accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me."
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060212154709990003&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Umm, umm. That's some fine cookin'

I read this yesterday and the first thing I thought was, "Why didn't he go to the hospital?" If that had been any of us, we would have been in that ambulance and going to the hospital, probably whether we'd been drinking or not.

He really is a cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch.

Those press people are so hard to get a hold of. Hardly any of them own cell phones. The ones that do hardly ever turn them on. And if they'd noticed the VP was trying to call them, they probably would have ignored him. Poor Dick just hanging out there, twisting in the wind.

:cry:

Can you imagine not being told of something this major and not being able to do your job? I'll bet they're cringing--and maybe looking for other work. THe last time they were this embarrassed was when Junior went down to NOLA and made some off the cuff remarks about the fun he used to have in NO as people were drowning in the streets.

NOT a good day for the WH press people.

and talked to Card. All night they sat on the incident. The next morning, the plot to dribble out the story through the local press was hatched by Cheney, Rove, and lobbyist, Armstrong.

of the hunt"

TOWARD the end? Implying they went on shooting?!

He skipped dessert. "Gotta watch that weight, heh heh. What a fuckin' day, eh? Where's the scotch?"

Oh yes, our fearless leader remains "cool".
So strong.
So macho.
:-(

He was close enough to see him fall? Behind the bushes?

"I ran over to him," Cheney said. But he stayed away from him, close, but cool? His 'friend' is lying there seemingly unconcious and bleeding from his gunshot, and he's close, but cool?

:)

*&^^%!!&#$$@@@ Whittington!

At least that's what he told Brit Hume.

to top off the evening, because he was so concerned.

Are you fucking kidding me? He had ZERO idea what to do or say because the PR people weren't with him? How imcompetent can you be?

And notice, when he finally DID say something (to Faux, of course) it was all about ME ME ME! "It was the worst day of MY life" "I'll never forget it." Harry? Whoozzat? And who cares?