Cheney's Pheasantgate - who some of the shooters were

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/121803dnnatcheneyhunt.c173.html

When Dick Cheney and a hunting party that included Sen. John Cornyn and several other Texas Republicans bagged hundreds of pheasants at a private game reserve in Pennsylvania last week, animal-rights activists denounced it as a slaughter.

They were especially outraged that the vice president shot more than 70. But Mr. Cornyn said Wednesday that the birds had a sporting chance, even if they were farm-raised and released from nets for the hunters.

"It was a good shoot," said Mr. Cornyn, who figures he shot dozens of pheasants himself. He conceded that bagging the birds was so easy, at times it seemed "kind of like how Tyson's and Pilgrim's Pride and other people do it. ... I must tell you that people don't necessarily hunt the same way in Texas that they hunt in Ligonier, Pa., but it was enjoyable," he said.

Two major Republican donors from Dallas, investor Jeffrey Marcus and investment banker Daniel Cook, hosted the Dec. 8 outing at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in southwestern Pennsylvania, Mr. Cornyn said. Real estate executive and former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach was there, too. Mr. Marcus declined to discuss the trip; the others did not return phone calls.

[Skittles]

1. HUNTING - THE "SPORT" OF COWARDS

FLAME AWAY YOU F***ING COWARDS

[Mikimouse]

3. One can hardly call what these people did 'hunting'

n/t

[Goldmund]

5. I agree

Sorry. :)

[Drifter]

6. Hunting is hardly the sport of Cowards ...

I will start by saying that I do not hunt. I went coon (as in Racoon) hunting in MA once about 25 years ago.

Butchering caged animals ala Cheney, Nugent, is cowardly since it puts man at a serious advantage.

Cheers
Drifter

[Goldmund]

13. "cowardly since it puts man at a serious advantage."

If this is the criterium to establish cowardice (which isn't something I necessarily agree with), then the mere fact the human has a gun and the animal doesn't automatically implies the human is a coward.

[buddhamama]

8. yeah, and the courage you display by

walking into a grocery store to pick up your dinner, after the brutality has occurred, leaves one speechless.

[Goldmund]

14. What a big assumption...

...that hunters hunt so they can eat.

If that were the case, I'd be all for hunting. After all, all carnivorous species hunt.

Humans hunt (or, at least humans in America) because they have a fetish.

[buddhamama]

17. yeah but, what a huge generalization was made

about hunters that i responded to.

[ThomC]

16. Is that insult directed to all hunters?

Or just republican hunters?

[Sir_Shrek]

2. Something to keep in mind, folks......

http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000600.html

[adriennel]

4. Michigan loves hunting

...but what Cheney did is not hunting! someone call Ted Nugent :mad:

[JHB]

7. I protest the use of the word "hunting" to describe this activity

I've been hunting, and blasting dozens of disoriented birds isn't hunting.

Geez, Dick, why not just shoot fish in a barrel?

[brook]

9. Power trip, maybe...

"Hunting"? No way. Cheney and his friends are dillusional.

[Kolesar]

10. There is a "game ranch" of that sort near Sheffield, Pa

You pay to go in and shoot one of the animals that they raised as it wanders through the woods. Pathetic

[cosmicdot]

11. Ich bin ein Fasan

somehow, in the total scheme of things, I know how the pheasants felt ...

[Silverhair]

12. Compare that to Teddy Roosevelt.

On a bear hunting vacation in Mississippi, during his presidency, Teddy wasn't having any luck. Some one caught a bear cub and tied it to a tree so the president could shoot it. Teddy was outraged and demanded the bear be released. The story made the papers, to great public approval. Toy makers named their toy bears - Teddy Bears. The name stuck.

The constrast between that great man, (Yes, he was a Republican. Once they were a great party.) and this "hunt" is dispicable.

At the same time, I don't see this as having any legs as a scandal. Joe Sixpack isn't going to care. Griping about this is going to sound like PETA complaining and will fall on deaf ears.

[yellowcanine]

15. "The birds had a sporting chance"

"Mr. Cornyn said Wednesday that the birds had a sporting chance"

What dos Mr. Cornyn consider sporting? Releasing birds from nets into a firing range? As I recall, well over two thirds of the released birds were bagged. That sure ain't sporting. Slaughter would appear to be a more accurate description. Do the rules of what is sporting change when one goes from Texas to Pennsylvania? Cornyn is a fraud.

[joanski01]

18. Pardon my ignorance,

buy why didn't they just shoot clay pigeons? How could it make you feel good to shoot 70 live birds?

[yellowcanine]

19. Clay pigeons don't bleed

"Hunting" is supposed to be a blood sport. Besides, they donated the birds to homeless shelters (yeah, right). Why don't you want homeless people to have the chance to eat tasty pheasant?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Clay pidgeons can't experience SHOCK AND AWE

[RBHam]

21. Psychotic mass murderers start this way...

Some keep up the practice even after graduating to slaughtering tens of thousands of innocents in a War manufactured to help your buddies rape the world of its resources.

"It's good to be the King! PULL!"

[RBHam]

22. Roger Staubach?

Whata "sportsman" he is!

[maggrwaggr]

23. let me get this straight ...

Dick and his boys all got together, boarded Air Force 2 and flew it up to Pennsylvania to slaughter pheasants?

Uh .... how is this not a criminal mis-use of Air Force 2?

Next thing you know he'll be caught using his White House credit card to get lapdances.

And no one will care.

[OneTwentyoNine]

24. "Please Sir may I have another"? another,another....

That must have taken about all the skill and work that Oil Dick could emass with that bad ticker. He sure couldn't be wandering all over the woods for hours hoping maybe one pheasant would fly up.

Pathetic to say the least....


David