The man cheney shot has heart irregularity/heart attack

[McCarrens]

I don't know which it was, but the man Cheney shot just had a heart attack/underwent a "heart irregularity."

Damn the BCE for bringing down this man!

[FORD]

Makes you wonder what the guy had on Dick.......

Is he dead?

[Nitro Express]

Now now. Yes Dick is a dick but come on. Is everything he does a conspiracy? You are making it to be, Chenney shoots the dude and then turns to his assistant and says,"Leave the gun, take the canolli".

[FORD]

What I just heard on the radio is that some of the birdshot actually got in or near the dude's heart and that's what caused his heart attack.

We all know Cheney's a murderer, but this one might end up official.

[McCarrens]

Ford, the shooting was an accident. But if this guy dies, I wonder what will happen to Cheney?

[Nickdfresh]

CHENEY would never intentionally kill a donor...

He may have been "asking" for more however...

[FORD]

The guy's a lawyer. I thought Republicans hated all lawyers?

Except James Baker and Ted Olson anyway.

[jhale667]

Originally posted by McCarrens
Ford, the shooting was an accident. But if this guy dies, I wonder what will happen to Cheney?

That's my question: If this dude DIES, is Cheney going to be charged with involuntary manslaughter?

[Nitro Express]

Dick Chenney is a Wyoming native who worked hard and became CEO of Haliburton. He is no different than most CEOs which means he puts himself before the organization and takes as much advantage of things for himself as he can.

Unlike most CEOs, Dick Chenney has held powerful offices in the govt. Like many such people, he's clever like a fox and out of touch with most Americans.

Chenney can quietly run the govt. while the chimp is the PR guy. Chenney was going to get us into Iraq and was naive to think once we got rid of Saddam Hussain we would reap huge oil deals and govt. contracts. Him and Rumsfeld tottaly miscalculated the insugency problem.

Chenney is nothing more than a greedy corporate elitist with powerful govt. ties who had a hunting accident.

[Hardrock69]

Hey at the very least, Cheney should be charged with manslaughter if the guy dies.

Who in the FUCK gives a rat's ass if he is the Vice President or not?

Anyone else would face felony manslaughter charges.

Cheney is not above the law, despite his opinion that his somehow a "god".

Fuck that cocksucker.

As it is, the White House is now blaming the guy who got shot!!!!
:rolleyes:

Cheney's companion at fault in shooting, White House says
By William Douglas
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The White House blamed the 78-year-old man whom Vice President Dick Cheney shot during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas for the incident, as officials struggled Monday to explain why they waited nearly 24 hours before making the news public.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan tried to absolve Cheney of blame for shooting wealthy Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, saying that hunting "protocol was not followed by Mr. Whittington when it came to notifying others that he was there. And so, you know, unfortunately, these types of hunting accidents happen from time to time."

Several hunting experts were skeptical of McClellan's explanation. They said Cheney might have violated a cardinal rule of hunting: Know your surroundings before you pull the trigger.

"Particularly identify the game that you are shooting and particularly identify your surroundings, that it's safe to shoot," said Mark Birkhauser, the incoming president of the International Hunter Education Association, a group of fish and wildlife agencies. "Every second, you're adjusting your personal information that it is a safe area to shoot or it's not a safe area to shoot."

Safe-hunting rules published by the National Rifle Association and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department echo Birkhauser's advice.

"Be absolutely sure you have identified your target beyond any doubt," the NRA says in the gun-safety rules on its Web site. "Equally important, be aware of the area beyond your target. This means observing your prospective area of fire before you shoot. Never fire in a direction in which there are people or any other potential for mishap. Think first. Shoot second."

On its 10 Commandments of Shooting Safety, Texas Parks and Wildlife lists being sure of your target as the third commandment. "Know what is in front and behind your target. Determine that you have a safe backstop or background."

Cheney has a Texas non-resident hunting license, but he failed to get a $7 stamp that's required to hunt game birds, the vice president's office said in a statement Monday night. He has since sent a check to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to buy the stamp, the statement said.

Whittington was listed in stable condition Monday at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, with birdshot wounds to his face, neck and chest. The shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch, a 50,000-acre spread in south Texas owned by friends of the president.

White House and Texas law enforcement officials haven't provided a detailed account of the incident. Katharine Armstrong, one of the ranch's owners, said Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of their vehicle to shoot a covey of quail. The third member of the hunting party was the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Pamela Willeford, a Texan and a Bush family friend.

Whittington shot a bird and went to get it, breaking from Cheney and Willeford. Armstrong said Whittington then came up from behind without signaling, and as a covey flushed Cheney wheeled and fired his .28-gauge shotgun, hitting Whittington.

Whittington was tended at the scene by Cheney's medical detail before being taken to the hospital by ambulance.

Though the shooting happened Saturday afternoon, it didn't become public knowledge until Armstrong notified the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, her local paper, at midday Sunday. The White House then confirmed news media requests for verification.

The lag between the shooting and the reporting of it prompted questions about why a private citizen, not the government, was disclosing a shooting involving the vice president.

McClellan said Monday that Cheney's staff didn't immediately inform the media because the first priority was tending to Whittington's health.

McClellan said White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told Bush around 8 p.m. Saturday that Cheney had shot Whittington, but McClellan said he himself didn't learn that Cheney was the shooter until around 6 a.m. Sunday. He said he urged Cheney's office to get the information out as quickly as possible. The news broke nationally about 3:45 p.m. EST Sunday.

Lee Anne McBride, Cheney's press secretary, talked Sunday about Whittington's condition and said the vice president had spoken with him and was pleased with his condition. But she referred most questions - from the names of everyone in the hunting party to what type of weapon Cheney had fired - to Armstrong.

"The vice president thought that Mrs. Armstrong should be the first one to go out there and provide that information to the public, which she did," McClellan said.

Cheney's office has a history of not sharing information with the public. Last month, it refused to specify the nature of a foot injury for which he was given medication that caused water retention and shortness of breath and sent him to the hospital.

"He's secretive by nature," said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "It's a dumb thing for officials to do, especially someone as experienced as Cheney. Just imagine what Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and David Letterman are going to do to him for days. It's a self-inflicted wound."


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13863648.htm

[jhale667]

God, how much BULLSHIT do they think the American public will eat?!? It's the guy who got SHOT's fault? Give me a fucking break. Cheney fucked up, and should taker responsiblity for his mistake, not blame it on the poor fucker with a face(and chest cavity, apparently) full of birdshot....:mad:

[FORD]

Seeing how McClellan's nickname is "Scottie the Duck", he's probably counting himself lucky that he wasn't in range of Uncle Dick's gunfire.

[Fairwrning]

Feb 14, 5:38 PM (ET)

By LYNN BREZOSKY and NEDRA PICKLER

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - The 78-year-old lawyer wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet in his chest traveled to his heart, hospital officials said.

Harry Whittington was immediately moved back to an intensive care unit and will be watched for a week to make sure more pellets do not move to other vital organs. He was reported in stable condition.

Whittington suffered a "silent heart attack" - an irregular heartbeat, but without the classic heart-attack symptoms of pain and pressure, according to doctors at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.

The doctors said they decided to treat the situation conservatively and leave the pellet alone rather than operate to remove it. They said they are extremely optimistic Whittington will recover and live a healthy life with the pellet left in place.

Hospital officials said they were not concerned about the six to 200 other pieces of birdshot that might still be lodged in Whittington's body..






6-200..isn't that a bit vague?? They can't narrow that down a bit???

[FORD]

I'm guessing there's a question of how many pellets actually hit him, and how deep they went. Maybe "6" is the number they cut out of him so far and "200" is the maximum number per shell, and they aren't sure exactly how many hit him.

Or, since the BCE keeps spinning this, maybe they're deliberately low-balling the number.

Like they do in Iraq and New Orleans, for example.

[4moreyears]

You guys are a fucking joke. It was a hunting accident. You morons talk about criminal charges. How fucking stupid can the left be in this forum. I have seriously never met a dumber group of people.

[blueturk]

Originally posted by 4moreyears
... I have seriously never met a dumber group of people.

Well then, look in the mirror and say hello!

[blueturk]

And now, in the spirit of Dubya'a famous "those WMD's have got to be around here slide show, is the White House's take on a the whole thing...

White House Finds Humor in Hunting Mishap By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
Tue Feb 14, 4:18 PM ET


WASHINGTON - The White House has decided that the best way to deal with Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting accident is to joke about it.

President Bush's spokesman quipped Tuesday that the burnt orange school colors of the University of Texas championship football team that was visiting the White House shouldn't be confused for hunter's safety wear.

"The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the vice president may be there," joked White House press secretary Scott McClellan, following the lead of late-night television comedians. "That's why I'm wearing it."

The president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, took a similar jab after slapping an orange sticker on his chest from the Florida Farm Bureau that read, "No Farmers, No Food."

"I'm a little concerned that Dick Cheney is going to walk in," the governor cracked during an appearance in Tampa Monday.

Cheney, an experienced hunter, has not been joking or saying anything publicly at all about the accident Saturday, when he accidentally sprayed a hunting partner with shotgun pellets when aiming for a quail.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued a report Monday that found the main factor contributing to the accident was a "hunter's judgment factor." No other secondary factors were found to have played a role.

The department gave Cheney and the victim, prominent Republican attorney Harry Whittington, warning citations for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing them to shoot upland game birds. A department spokesman said warnings are being issued in most cases because the stamp requirement only went into effect five months ago and many hunters weren't aware of it.

Cheney's office said Monday night in a statement that Cheney had a $125 nonresident hunting license and has sent a $7 check to cover the cost of the stamp. "The staff asked for all permits needed, but was not informed of the $7 upland game bird stamp requirement," the statement said.

The state's report said Whittington was retrieving a downed bird and stepped out of the hunting line he was sharing with Cheney. "Another covey was flushed and Cheney swung on a bird and fired, striking Whittington in the face, neck and chest at approximately 30 yards," the report said.

Whittington, who had been in stable condition after being moved from intensive care, suffered "a minor heart attack" Tuesday morning, hospital officials said. He was immediately moved back to the intensive care unit for further treatment, said Peter Banko, the administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial in Texas.

Banko said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a pellet, and doctors performed a cardiac catheterization. Whittington expressed a desire to leave the hospital, but Banko said he would probably stay for another week to make sure more shot doesn't move to other organs or to other part of his body.

Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch where the shooting occurred, said it happened toward the end of the hunt, when it was still sunny but as darkness was encroaching and they were preparing to go inside. She said Whittington made a mistake by not announcing that he had walked up to rejoin the hunting line, and Cheney didn't see him as he tried to down a bird.

Armstrong said she saw Cheney's security detail running toward the scene. "The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem," she told The Associated Press.

She said 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, receiving updates from a family member at the hospital. Armstrong described Cheney's demeanor during dinner as "very worried" about Whittington.

Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, another member of the hunting party, told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Tuesday's editions that she and Cheney didn't realize Whittington had picked up a bird and caught up with them.

Willeford said she has hunted with Cheney before and would again.

"He's a great shot. He's very safety conscious. This is something that unfortunately was a bad accident and when you're with a group like that, he's safe or safer than all the rest of us," she said.

But the accident raised questions about Cheney's adherence to hunting safety practices and the White House's failure to disclose the accident in a timely way.

Several hunting safety experts interviewed agreed it would have been a good idea for Whittington to announce himself. But every expert stressed that the shooter is responsible for avoiding other people.

Bush was told about Cheney's involvement in the accident shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday — about an hour after it occurred — but the White House did not disclose the accident until Sunday afternoon, and then only in response to press questions.

Facing a press corps upset that news had been withheld, press secretary Scott McClellan said, "I think you can always look back at these issues and look at how to do a better job."

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/14/ap2525155.html