After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots- NYT (new)

[goforit]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/politics/15LETT.html>

After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: December 15, 2003

WASHINGTON

Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)

All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.

As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.

"This can only be called a shooting-gallery operation," said Wayne Pacelle, the senior vice president of the Humane Society, who pronounced himself outraged. "Hunting is supposed to involve some opportunity for the animal to evade the hunter. Hunting in this setting is reduced to mass killing."

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OMG!!!!
400 out of 500???????
What the hell is their problem????
Yes....Where is the game in this massacre????
"Buffalo Bill" is alive and well with the slaughter of bears and
Cheney's slaughter of pheasants!!!

Good grief!!!

[Old and In the Way]

1. Rigged elections, rigged contracts, rigged hunts..............

Do you see a character trend here?

[bobbyboucher]

2. I knew that guy who was quoted earlier would have his

ass handed to him. He came out and said the birds were released from cages and the group was down the hill in blinds. Real tough guys huh?

He's out looking for a job today. Typical.

[frank frankly]

3. Cheney is one of the worst people "alive"

the fact he literally doesn't have a heart is beyond irony/satire

he is a POS.

[reknewcomer]

4. Was it a private hunt like this one?

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, carries his double barrel shotgun while hunting pheasant, Friday Oct. 31, 2003, near Colo, Iowa.


Democratic presidential hopeful
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., left,
inspects a pheasant with Ryan
McKiney, right, after Kerry shot
the bird, Friday Oct. 31, 2003,
near Colo, Iowa.

Good grief or bad grief?

[bobbyboucher]

5. So you didn't read the article, did you?

It adresses the Kerry hunt. In the original article that I read regarding Cheney's bullshit slaughter, the guy they quoted, who is now missing, said that they released the birds from cages to fly over the waiting hunters down below.

Kerry's was a real hunt, and he killed two males. Now compare that to Cheney's group who killed 417 and Cheney himself shot 70. 70 fucking pheasants.

Comprend?

[Robbien]

6. And the birds were raised in captivity by humans

Humans do not frighten them so they stuck around instead of flying away. So Cheney got out his gun and slaughtered them. Some sport. Skeet shooting would be a tougher sport.

[are_we_united_yet]

7. Why do you bother to explain?

And ruin what they thought was very clever.

Let him go.

[reknewcomer]

8. A real hunt

I guess I'll take your word for it. Case closed.

[saigon68]

12. "Cheney himself shot 70. 70 fucking pheasants"

"Nice Bag Limit"

------Sportsmen for Cheney

[AngryAmish]

9. I don't hunt game

I am a terrible shot. But I can fish. Farm raised birds are not that unusual, a lot of rural hunt clubs do this all the time. Distasteful - of course, what else would you expect out of Cheney. I doubt I would fish in pool. But I also salmon fish in Lake Michigan, where all the salmon are stocked artifically.

[buycitgo]

10. Bumiller is a great example of the fat, lazy media whore.....

who only reports what she's handfed by the government

she ADMITTED that the other day on CSPAN, in an embarrassing, know-nothing about anything appearance.

she said that the reason the NYT/other outlets haven't been reporting on Plame, for just one example, is that the government investigation hasn't turned anything up yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gee, she's going to wait an awfully long time to get anything to stenography for us, isn't she.

it was really pathetic, the way she refused to credit any possible political motives for ANYthing the * administration does, also saying that the NYT is NOT a crusading newspaper (meaning, basically, that they don't do investos that are inimical to the well-being of the current junta......no mention of the likes of Gerth, Labaton, etc., who happily INVENTED bogus story after story during the Clinton inquisition)

but I digress

[Old and In the Way]

11. But an excellent digression it is....spot on.

Pretty well says it all about the state of corporate journalism in this country.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. Shhhhh... Cheney's hunting peasants again...

The article states they won't release photos of the Great Peasant Hunt. No doubt they realize that Ironheart in a M1 tank blasting the hell out of a bag of peasants strapped to the muzzle wouldn't help his cute 'n' cuddly image. Great White Hunter, indeed. :eyes: (Yes, I know how to spell "pheasant." I just think it works better this way... :evilgrin: )