Lawyer shot by a Dick

Image credit via TruthDig.com.

What makes this more amusing to me is that these guys weren’t REALLY hunting:

500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney’s 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. The party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon. (WTAE)

Apparently Bush started the “Oops I didn’t mean to shoot that” tradition back when he was running for Governor of Texas against Ann Richards. Richards, a life-long hunter, was being portrayed in the media as being more macho than Bush. Rove set up a dove hunting trip for Bush where he mistook a Killdeer for a dove and shot it. Killdeers are on the threatened species list so Bush was fined for killing it.

So, anyone have a good Cheney joke for this event?

Update by Stephen VanDyke: Don’t miss the ten ways Dick Cheney can kill you.

posted Feb 14th, 2006 by mikehorn
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  • http://360.yahoo.com/pong_god Robert Mayer

    Cheney’s Got A Gun (sung to the tune of the old Aerosmith song)… LOL!

    http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/009964.html

  • http://willtoexist.com Trevor

    Vitriol won’t win any libertarians an election. Just saying…

  • http://360.yahoo.com/pong_god Robert Mayer

    Vitriol may not help win elections, but I say that any opportunity to knock down our federal masters a peg or two is too good to pass up!

  • http://www.libertyfilter.com putrimalu

    “Vitriol”? It’s not vitriol to mock government “officials”, especially if they’ve done something to merit it. The Vice President of the United States shot some old guy in the face. And sadly, that’s among the LEAST bad things he’s done. I have a feeling that the sort of people who would get offended by such CALLED FOR mockery would never vote Libertarian in the first place.

    Further, those kind of jokes just help make the public less able to take their “leaders” seriously, which is good for libertarians. Once people begin to learn that their elected “officials” are completely worthless, corrupt, and crooked – that’s good for libertarians, right?

    I’ve got another one, from Jay Leno:

    “I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, ‘Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?’”

    Hehe.

  • http://libertaranyouth.blogspot.com Nigel Watt

    There are far more important things going on than a hunting accident:

    http://libertarianyouth.blogspot.com/2006/02/tom-dick-and-harry.html

  • Greg Clark

    Yeah, there are more important things…but isn’t this fun!

    BTW, that quote referred to a Pennsylvania hunt, not the one in South Texas.

  • http://www.libertyfilter.com putrimalu

    This just in:

    The old guy Cheney shot in the face and chest has had a heart attack.

  • http://libertarianyouth.blogspot.com Nigel Watt

    Well, he was 78.

  • http://www.libertyfilter.com putrimalu

    I’m no doctor, but I suspect if the Vice President had NOT shot him, and the shot had NOT lodged in his heart, he would NOT have had a heart attack at that point in time.

    I have no proof of this, of course. Just speculating.

  • mikehorn

    So, if this guy dies… is Cheney arrested for involuntary manslaughter?

  • http://libertarianyouth.blogspot.com Nigel Watt

    Oh, I didn’t realize it had lodged in his heart.

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  • http://disvoter.blogspot.com The Disenfranchised Voter

    Hey Trevor, you want to see what virtol looks like?

    “Fuck off douchebag.”

    There ya go! =)

  • http://disvoter.blogspot.com The Disenfranchised Voter

    *vitriol

  • Matt

    It’s going to just be Cheney’s luck that the dude dies.

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    Texas Sheriff Barred From Interviewing Cheney About Shooting Incident

    http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/140206shooting.htm

  • nsarwark

    Of course they didn’t let the Sheriff interview Cheney; that’s a Fox News Exclusive.

    Duh.

  • disinter

    Ok, Cheney was drunk, was much closer to the guy he shot than the media will have you believe, had the secret service prevent the local authorities from interviewing him, didn’t tell the President, and on and on. Doesn’t his behavior seem a bit odd?

    Additionally, if that were anyone else they would probably be arrested, interrogated and most likely charged with something.

    Is Cheney above the law?

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/150206smokinggun.htm

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  • http://www.libertyfilter.com putrimalu

    Update: Ballistics tests prove VP’s story false?

    EXCERPT:

    “Cheney claims that he shot Whittington at 90 feet, ballistic tests from the spread of the shotgun pellets to their penetration depth is 100% conclusive.

    Harry Whittington was shot at close range, between 15 and 18 feet, not the 90 claimed by Dick Cheney and the Secret Service. It is now clear why they refused to let Sherriff’s Deputies interview Cheney for over 13 hours and why they claimed that Whittington’s injuries were superficial when in truth they were grievious.

    The mainstream media is ignoring this literal smoking gun evidence. Anytime they wish, the local police can conduct their own ballistics tests and they will have the exact same findings. The media can conduct their own tests.”