Cheney said Armstrong was 'eyewitnes'-but she was in car-unaware

[rodeodance]

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/15/cheney.transcript/


Cheney saying Mrs. Armstrong is an eyewitness (twice):


Question: And did you discuss this with Karl Rove at any time, as has been reported?

Cheney: No, Karl talks to -- I don't recall talking to Karl. Karl did talk with Katharine Armstrong, who is a good mutual friend to both of us. Karl hunts at the Armstrong, as well --

Question: Say that again?

Cheney: I said Karl has hunted at the Armstrong, as well, and we're both good friends of the Armstrongs and of Katharine Armstrong. And Katharine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out. And I thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was an eyewitness. She'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the immediate past head of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the game control commission in the State of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all of this.

And she wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which is the local newspaper, covers that area, to reporters she knew. And I thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting. And then it would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the Web site, which is the way it went out. And I thought that was the right call.............

Question: Well, obviously, you could have put the statement out in the name of whoever you wanted. You could put it out in the name of Mrs. Armstrong, if you wanted to. Obviously, that's -- she's the one who made the statement.

Cheney: Exactly. That's what we did. We went with Mrs. Armstrong. We had -- she's the one who put out the statement. And she was the most credible one to do it because she was a witness. It wasn't me in terms of saying, here's what happened, it was --

VS:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8FONJ181.html

.....Not realizing Whittington had returned to the line to his right, Cheney was tracking a quail when he fired, striking Whittington's face, neck and chest with birdshot.

Sitting in the hunting car, Armstrong didn't know there was a problem until she saw Cheney's security detail running.

"The first thing that crossed my mind was (Cheney) had a heart problem," she said.

She said Cheney stayed close to Whittington while also trying to stay out of the way of those treating him.........

[Boo Boo]

1. There was another witness standing right next to Cheney, but

nobody seems to want to even mention her name.

:shrug:

[fob]

2. Hey DICK, can you explain how your statement following herewith;

past head of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the game control commission in the State of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all of this

jives with this "alleged expert" managing to let you hunt WITHOUT the appropriate stamp for quail?

And also, why aren't YOU the main, MOST CREDIBLE witness? Nevermind on that last one, I should have known better than to insinuate you have any knowledge whatsoever of credibility.

[Vickers]

3. Wait, is this the old rich chick, or the young chick he was fucking?

:shrug:

I'm getting a little confused with their sack-of-shit lies. :eyes:

[tom22]

5. I don't know what the hell Cheney said, but

I know something about hunting. Cheney took a ground shot at a bird that was about to come to ground. The spread of a shot gun shell at 30 yards is a circle about a yard wide. He was aiming at the ground when he fired. This is not sporting. A bird coming to ground is hardly moving. It has no chance, unlike a bird in flight. This is the shot of a clown. And any true sportsmen will tell you as much.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Ha! I just identified this as one of Cheney's lies in the Faux News...

...interview, on the basis on the number of times he repeats his cocked up and well-rehearsed (four days) story lines! He repeats this one--that Armstrong was an "eyewitness"--at least FOUR times. The most repeated line (eight times) was about his desire that the story that they put out be "accurate."

See my post #10, at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x433740

[Peace Patriot]

6. Thanks, Rodeodance, for the dailynews quote. I didn't know that they'd

reported she was sitting in the car! LOL!