The Cheney Shooting: A Few Questions Before the Circus Folds Its Tent

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-cheney-shooting-a-fe_b_15898.html

Arianna:

So the president is "satisfied" with Dick Cheney's "strong and powerful" explanation of the Whittington shooting, and the Kenedy Country Sheriff's Department considers the case closed.

Maybe I'm just a harder sell, but there are still a number of unanswered questions that I'd like to see answered before the circus folds up its tent and moves on (especially since, as Tim Grieve points out, the sheriff's investigation wasn't exactly a model of thoroughness).

Armed and Dangerous. Hume called Cheney a "seasoned hunter". So why, by his own admission, was he shooting downward when he blasted Whittington in the face? "The idea behind quail hunting," a South Texas hunting guide told the Washington Post, "is that you have to hit the quail when it's about five to ten feet in the air… Nobody should be shooting down." So was the VP buzzed, reckless, or just trying to get an unfair advantage on a pathetic bird?

Whatever You Do, Don't Roll Tape. And, finally, just why did Whittington -- a lawyer, after all -- refuse to let the deputies questioning him about the shooting tape-record the interview? Then again, this is the same guy who felt it was necessary to apologize to the man who shot him, so we probably shouldn't be surprised that he wanted to leave the record as ambiguous as possible.

The chimp's framing implies that the explanation required a little more than just telling the truth, and that dead-eye did a fine job of catapaulting the propaganda.

I contend that Cheney NEVER said he had a beer with lunch, on Fox. There is only reference to him saying it. He doesn't say it on ANY video avaliable at Fox. I contend that it was "added" in for some reason that we'll find out....soon enough.

The SOB fired at an area he knew his friend to be in. Yep, everybody will get it.

Good for you, Arianna!!

You ought to read Skinners post - it is really good.

Would you go hunting with this moron?? Likely to hit you as any prey.

I think a lot of people think the same, too.


A pacifist from California,

Joe