The Quail Hunter Gang
DIG UP THE OLD BONES
Despite all that is going on in the world and our own nation, people in the liberal news rooms across the nation have nothing to do. I assume large numbers of them are playing solitaire, computer games, maybe building replicas of little ships in bottles. No matter which of these fine activities the many left leaning journalist are engaging in, a few of their number seem to have become so bored with the lack of worthwhile activity that they have started searching the archives for stories to write about.
It seems that various news papers and electronic news services have discovered some “new” pictures from Abu Ghraib and the abuse that took place there. These pictures don’t show anything new, don’t implicate any person that has not already been investigated and adjudicated in the matter. Com’on guys, a crime occurred, was investigated and the guilty have been arrested, tried and are or have been punished accordingly. It’s over. It’s history. Let’s move on with life.
Dick Cheney and the
Quail Wrangler Gang
Dick Cheney, our nation’s Vice President had the nerve to go quail hunting this past weekend. Not only did he have the audacity to engage in a relaxing activity, he (get ready) used a gun. I know, all of the wonderful liberals and tree huggers have been telling us for years that hunting, if it must be done at all, should only be done with a slingshot with two broken rubber bands. What can I say? The VP is old and stuck in the ways of the pioneers. This isn’t the real crime though. It seems some of our Vice President’s bird shot struck one of his hunting buddies. To be sure, a far from insignificant event.
The liberals, having left their common sense and good taste in another suit, are trying their best to make this story sound like Cheney pulled off a drive-by shooting in his low-riding bullet proof limo. The event unfolded something like this. The Vice President along with several friends were hunting quail in a straight line manner. Mr. Whittington dropped out of line without saying a word to anybody to look for a downed bird in tall grass. He then rejoined the line of hunters without saying anything to anybody, and in so doing walked into the Vice President’s line of fire. At the moment the Vice President fired Mr. Whittington was standing in a gully, making him much lower on the landscape that he would normally have been. This made him harder to see and more in line with the path of a rising quail. That’s all there was to it, period!
Now some would have the public believe otherwise. Based on nothing more than the fact that Mr. Cheney didn’t immediately go running out to the press pool screaming “I shot a man, I shot a man!” Instead the injured man was taken to the hospital (what without a press conference?) and Cheney spoke with law enforcement officials the following day. Gilbert San Miguel, chief deputy of the Kenedy County Sheriff’s Office said that there was no misconduct, no alcohol involved, this was simply a hunting accident. The stupidity doesn’t stop here though. David Finn, a former Texas and federal prosecutor says that a grand jury could bring an indictment if “there is evidence the Vice President knew or should have known ‘there was a substantial or unjustifiable risk that his actions would result in him shooting a fellow hunter.’” The proper authorities have already labeled this an accident and this fool is screaming for a grand jury. Whoever took the liberals string away from them needs to give it back so they’ll have something to play with.