Cheney rumor WHY THEY delayed the shooting

[still_one]

SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Alex Bennett (SIRIUS Left Ch 146) just broke a rumor that the delay in reporting the news that Cheney shot err "peppered" 78-year-old Harry Whittington in the heart was due to an effort to hide or spin Cheney's female companion, Pamela Willeford. Pamela Willeford was part of the hunting excursion with Cheney and Whittington and was next to Cheney when the shooting of Whittington took place.



http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/sirius-alex-bennett-breaks-vp-cheney-rumor.html

[dancingme]

1. Maybe "Dick" was getting groped

:P

[Arkansas Granny]

7. And his "gun" went off

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

:crazy:

[txindy]

Ack! Thanks so much for that visual, Granny.

:rofl:

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Or, as I've always heard they teach in boot camp...

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This one's for shooting
This one's for fun

(Usually shortly followed by "Now drop and give me twenty, maggot!")

[hvn_nbr_2]

23. Between that and being drunk, no wonder he missed.

Interpret "missed" as you see fit.

[TheModernTerrorist]

24. at HIS age?

dunno how well his "gun" would be working by now...

[bryant69]

2. And their evidence?

Just out of curiousity?

Obviously this has been speculated on here and elsewhere and is one of the more plausible theories.

Bryant
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[Festivito]

28. I'd guess speculation on his wife and her husband not attending.

I'm sure that the sleeping arrangements will not be revealed easily.
But, Enquiring minds want to know.
And, if it had been true and become public, it would have levied its own immensly satisfyingly ironic justice.
Oh well. Back to Rolling Stones.

[markam]

3. Not according to Darth himself

From his interview, it was just him and his prey.

There was just two of you then?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Just two of us at that point. The guide or outrider between us, and of course, there's this entourage behind us, all the cars and so forth that follow me around when I'm out there -- but bird flushed and went to my right, off to the west. I turned and shot at the bird, and at that second, saw Harry standing there. Didn't know he was there --

[Che_Nuevara]

That refers to another hunter,

who he never names. Could well be a woman.

[dweller]

15. went to the right?

and Harry was peppered on his right side...

align, in your mind, the 2 people, hunter and prey, in your mind.

:think:

dp

[fasttense]

4. I can just see it. They pause to take a lingering kiss,

while Cheney is holding the rifle. The groupies, err entourage, has fallen far behind. They know good old Harry wont give their secret away and boom. Cheney had his finger on the trigger as their lips parted. Good old Harry is shot through the heart.

[Carni]

9. Gee thanks A LOT

Now I have that crappy Bon Jovi song:

"Shot through the heart and you're to blame YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME"

Stuck in my head...

Please I beg of you...let's have no more of these Cheney romantic/ recreations/scripts without disclaimers in the post title ;)

[fasttense]

17. Oops sorry, I should have warned people about the obscene imagery

before I let my imagination run wild.

(Thanks for the laugh Carni ;)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Well, they ain't doing a very good job.

Her presence there has been known (and mentioned by none other than herself) since at least Tuesday, maybe earlier.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. How does the 14hr (or whatever) help spin that? More likely:

1. Cheney was sobering up in case of a blood alcohol test

2. They wanted to see of the victim was gonna die (in which case some EXTREME spin would be needed)

[Burried News]

8. Yah yah yah yah - ein bisschen struudle mit der Hinny Can.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Meanwhile, no comment from Willeford as an eye witness

even though she was standing a hell of a lot closer than the Ranch Owner/Lobbyist. Willeford is NOWHERE to be found and when the reports first came out, she was described as "a third member of the party".

[bluemarkers]

11. here is one quote

Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, another member of the hunting party, told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Tuesday's editions that she and Cheney didn't realize Whittington had picked up a bird and caught up with them.

Willeford said she has hunted with Cheney before and would again.

"He's a great shot. He's very safety conscious. This is something that unfortunately was a bad accident and when you're with a group like that, he's safe or safer than all the rest of us," she said.

from yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_hunting_accident

but I've noticed she is referred to as the other hunter. ;) wink wink

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. Thanks! Hadn't seen that

I still find it interesting the the Rancher is the #1 eye witness. :)

[Stephanie]

20. Funny also, there were only three of them out hunting

So how on god's earth could Dick not know where Whittington was? He only had TWO PEOPLE to keep track of, and one was right next to him.

[Arkansas Granny]

27. I guess it all hinges on how you define hunting.

;) nudge, nudge.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Not true, actually.

Found this earlier today. It's in an AP piece from Tuesday:

Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, another member of the hunting party, told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Tuesday's editions that she and Cheney didn't realize Whittington had picked up a bird and caught up with them.

Willeford said she has hunted with Cheney before and would again.

"He's a great shot. He's very safety conscious. This is something that unfortunately was a bad accident and when you're with a group like that, he's safe or safer than all the rest of us," she said.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cheney_hunting_accident

[Norquist Nemesis]

19. Appreciate the correction

:hi:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. The perp:

[Double T]

13. dick had his eye on the chick...........

and not his shooting target. Moral of the story: Don't bring beer and women when you go hunting, these distractions can be murder.

[SpiralHawk]

16. The Swiss Miss

Pamela Wileford.

She is about to have her 15 minutes of infamy.

Par for the Republican culture of corruption.

[radwriter0555]

22. You all are forgetting that cheney cannot function sexually.

The man is on his last legs health wise, due to serious, SERIOUS heart conditions. He's on massive amounts of medication and often on actual machinery to sustain his life.

The story stinks and it's not about the chicks so much as *something* else.

Something else is rotten in denmark. I don't know what it is, but I can't agree this is about a mistress for cheney.

Men who can't get it up don't have mistresses unless they're seriously professional sex act freaks that can provide alternative forms of "pleasure" and honey we don't even want to go there with some uptight republican whore who sold her soul to the bush regime for a cushy ambassador post.

It isn't about a mistress. I don't know what it *is* about, but that's off target.

I shall continue to ruminate.

[JackRiddler]

31. so honestly...

how the hell do you know any of this for sure. So much useless speculation.

And if I were on my last legs, I'd want to get my last uggins in, for sure.

[Twist_U_Up]

25. Cheneys always packing heat..............

[Kittycat]

26. Did they find her Orange Dress? The one with the gun shot?

:rolleyes:

[B Calm]

29. Overnight hunting trip with a female comanion.. You seriously

don't think he was cheating on his beloved wife???

[NYCGirl]

30. Interesting. Ms. Willeford's husband was there also, BTW.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/politics/16tock.html?_r=1&oref=slogi

The other guests were Ms. Willeford, the ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and her husband, George, a physician in Austin; Ben Love, a West Texas rancher whom Ms. Armstrong called her "beau"; her sister, Sarita Hixon, a Houston museum chairwoman, and her husband, Bob, an insurance executive; Nancy Negley, an art philanthropist whose family once controlled Brown & Root, now a part of Halliburton; and Mr. Whittington, a 78-year-old Austin lawyer, Republican stalwart and presiding officer of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, and his wife, Mercedes.

At first Ms. Armstrong declined to say who besides Mr. Cheney and her sister had been her guests, but she provided the names after The Austin American-Statesman learned of Ms. Willeford's presence. Ms. Willeford spoke Monday by phone but declined to be interviewed again Wednesday. Mrs. Hixon and Ms. Negley did not respond to several messages.

All the guests were there by 6 p.m. Friday, Ms. Armstrong said. The others drove, but Mr. Cheney flew in with his Secret Service entourage; his wife, Lynne, had also been expected but could not come at the last minute, Ms. Armstrong said. Quartered in adjoining ranch houses, the group dined together Friday night and retired by about 10.

[Scout1071]

32. First of all, Alex Bennett is an absolute fucking moran.

That asshole was basically acting like he had some kind of info on this and he had broken the story, but the reality is that he or his staff probably read that rumor right here on DU (or Daily Kos). The average DU'er knows way more about the State of our Union than Alex Bennett. But because I sometimes listen to his show now that AAR is gone, I know all about his health issues, his girlfriend, what movie he saw last weekend, blah, blah, blah, blah. One of the most self absorbed people I've ever heard on the air and it pisses me off that he is on the Talk Left station. I change the channel on a regular basis because he hardly talks politics at all. And when he does he's usually woefully misinformed or days late with the info.


Secondly, this has now all be debunked. The NYT is reporting that there were several others along for the weekend including Mrs. Whittington.

Now, it doesn't mean that it's not important that Ms. Willeford was there. Turns out that Katherine Armstrong is a lobbyist who lobbies BushCo for at least one large Swiss company that received a lucrative contract from BushCo. There were Swiss-Texas connections all over that ranch. They were there on business. What piece of our tax dollar pie did they plan to slice off together for themselves? IMO, this is really the important angle we need to be investigating, outside of the actual circumstances of the shooting. Katherine Armstrong is a lobbyist.

:rant:

[AnnInLa]

33. Yeah Wonkette has something like that up

and she links to a story in the NY Post (I think), but the story goes on to say that the Swill Miss's husband was in the hunting party, but he was hunting a few fields away. Lord knows if there is any way to verify that one.

[goodhue]

34. More likely delay was due to alcohol

Beer at lunch, cocktail before dinner, feeling badly, to bed by 10 pm . . .

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

35. First Comment Is That Is HARDLY Breaking. We've Proposed That For Days.

Second Comment would be that though they would want to hide that as well, it is less likely to be a main reason for the delay as opposed to other theories put forth.

[jazzjunkysue]

36. I knew it!!! He'd only screw this up this bad if it was a broad.

I knew it. He's not stupid enough to do all this BS unless he was covering up for the existance of a woman.

Ok. Private investigators. Where was she when Harry went down? Can she provide an alibi?