Dick "Geriatric" Cheney "mistakes" a 78 year old millionaire lawyer for a "quail" and shoots him in the head with a shot-gun. Says a spokeswoman, “Fortunately, the vice-president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been. The vice-president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came.”
Readers will certainly recall the chapter, "Q is for Quail", from George W. Bush's Amazing Alphabet Book of the Contemporary World, or Al-Qaedas All Around (illustrated by Paul Wolfowitz). The chapter, like the chapter on democracy in Spinoza's Political Treatise, strangely trails off: "See Dick shoot the Quail, all 400 of them! Quail are tiny, chicken-y birds with lots and lots of little bones and no meat, but Dick loves to…"
In any case, firedoglake is all over this one. And seriously, too.
Oh God, I think I spilled my drink.
That second link is something.
Posted by: Matt | February 12, 2006 at 09:59 PM
in Strangelove's defense, the terrain was truly treacherous...
Posted by: Jarmunch | February 12, 2006 at 11:39 PM
As a vegetarian from the South who cultivated a reputation for being an outrageously poor shot, I can sympathize with our embattled VP. He has enough senseless deaths on his conscience already. He didn't want to kill that quail or shoot his friend in the face . . . but what choice did he have?
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | February 12, 2006 at 11:44 PM
Well, considering the full range of choice, he could have always shot himself. Or given the 78-year-old a turn. Fair is fair. Have you no honor, "President" Cheney?
Posted by: Brad | February 13, 2006 at 10:57 AM
time to declare a dule, albeit with "ladies's guns"
Posted by: Matt | February 13, 2006 at 11:33 AM
as in, "like totally a dule, dude."
here's Digby
Posted by: Matt | February 13, 2006 at 01:33 PM
Scotty Meathead will probably be punching the lockers and hitting the bottle tonight...It will be interesting to see if comedians still remember they were deliberately shafted, come next Sunday.
Posted by: jm | February 13, 2006 at 06:55 PM
In case you haven't heard already, it gets a little worse, for Shooter now...
Posted by: Matt | February 14, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Liar! It's a "heart irregularity"!
Posted by: Craig | February 14, 2006 at 02:22 PM
heh
Posted by: Mattm | February 14, 2006 at 02:41 PM
Oh right, and the pussy little bullets were all drunk.
Posted by: Matt | February 15, 2006 at 05:24 PM
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Posted by: Craig | February 18, 2006 at 04:49 PM
"He’s no more a hunter than Bush is a cowboy...
He’s just another stupid, pampered, autocratic narcissist like Bush — bullshitting his way through high office — and leaving bodies in his wake with as little concern for them as he does for 70 pheasants. In the age of postmodern politics, when the impression is sovereign, the gendered spell is broken for a moment when the costume slips.
That’s why I relish every jibe and joke, and I hope people milk this incident for all its worth."
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