Cheney Shoots Friend While Quail Hunting and then Ducks Media.

Well, I don’t know if I even have an opinion on this or not, but what I do know is that our Vice President, Dick Cheney, the man who’ll step in next time a bag of Rold Gold’s falls into the wrong hands, shot someone this weekend.

At first I thought, how honorable. He was protecting himself and his family from a mugger and he pulled out his nine and capped some body. Self-defense right!? It wasn’t until I read the entire story that the gravity of the issue really started to sink in.

I picked up the story off of Cnn.com. After reading through it I found no sympathy for Cheney, none what so ever. Hey enjoy your weekend, relax, shoot some over populated fowl, but please, please don’t start capping helpless people because you were in the woods, with a gun, those coke-bottle glasses of yours, a pocket full of shells and a hair trigger.

You are making me and I am sure countless other Americans very nervous. How did you manage to compose your self, aren’t you of a weak heart condition, should you really be out in the woods carrying a shotgun. Well, apparently the answer is no.

I have to say the whole situation is a little sketchy to me, I don’t understand how if a child accidentally shoots his best friend with his father’s gun, we plaster it all over the news, OUR VICE PRESIDENT, shoots one of his friends with his own gun, and we chalk it up to the fact that the guy, probably wearing a set of bright orange fatigues didn’t call out to the group before he walked, upright back into his hunting parties’ line of sight. Oh yeah, Cheney admitted to being the only one responsible, but that doesn’t change the fact that no matter how bad you feel, you still shot someone!!!!

Good thing Cheney was only hunting fowl or Whittington, the victim, may have never gotten the chance to reflect on the fact that he was just shot by the Vice President of the United States.

And why is Cheney skating on this. Crucify this man. I’m no fan of anybody taking up oxygen in the oval office these days, but to his credit, had Dubya shot someone by accident he’d have been hung in center square on a sunday afternoon. I don’t understand why this man is not getting villified in the media.

And the calculated release of the story, is just so offensive, Cheney had to make sure that the story went through the proper outlets, and that the story was filtered before hitting mainstream media. How do you spin this one, his explanation for filtering the story’s release, he wanted to make sure someone with hunting experience wrote the story so that the context would not be miscontstrued. Does a cop get that opportunity when he accidentally shoots a teenager he thought may have been about to pull a gun on him.

Or the father who didn’t lock up his handgun and has to explain to the family of his son’s friend why their child is dead.

Why do you get the chance to make sure you get the best possible scenario for a situation that you caused and you should suffer for.

Accidents happen, but not all of us are fortunate enough to control how they will be percieved, it must be nice DICK.

Newsflash! You shot someone, enough said, now hang up the rifle, turn in your license and get back to making sure the youngster doesn’t burn the country down. I know its stressful Dick, but please stay out of the woods, stop manipulating the media, stop shooting people and go back to being your inconsequential and ‘absent-from-the-public-eye’ self.

Besides I’ll feel safer next time I’m walking my dog that one less yahoo with a shotgun is in the woods.