Well, This Is A Whole Nuther Covey Of Quail
Vice President Dick Cheney, who usually comes to the White House with the blaring sirens of his motorcade, arrived through a back gate without sirens today.Contrary to earlier reports that Whittington, the gentelman whom Mr. Cheney shot while quail hunting, was not critical, it would appear now however, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times he was much more seriously injured than previously thought.
Katherine Armstrong owner of the ranch and witness to the shooting claimed on Feb. 12th that “It broke the skin,” she said of the shotgun pellets. “It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn’t get in his eyes or anything like that.”
As of today, Feb. 14th, Whittington had a heart attack and was rushed into emergency surgery to remove birdshot from his heart. The Houston Chronicle is reporting...
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Peter Banko, the hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Harry Whittington had the heart attack early today while being evaluated.
He 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.
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In the case that Whittington should die the Texas Penal Code states:
§ 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE.
(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual.
(b) Criminal homicide is murder, capital murder, manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide.
The White House has chosen to use humor in regard to Cheney's committing near murder.
My God, can you imagine if Clinton or Al Gore had committed a shooting like this? The Republican's would be calling for their hanging.
posted by Sandy at 11:29 AM
2 Comments:
I think the worst part is the spinning. Karl Rove was involved within 90 minutes of the shooting but nobody told the press until the next day. And then to top it off, there's a campaign to blame Whittington for the accident. These are not gentlemen.
So true. My father is an avid hunter who taught all of his children gun saftey by the ages of 8 yr old. One of the first lessens was to instill in us that the person holding the rifle/gun was responsible for shooting "anything" whether it be human or animal. If we shot something we weren't supposed to we got a lecture about gun saftey....again.
Cheney is responsible and to even suggest that Whittington was somehow to blame shows the sad depths to which this administration will go to cover their own backsides.
Disgraceful.
L
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