CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP

[kpete]

CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP
Effort to Reach Out to White House Press Corps, Observers Say
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In what Washington insiders believe is an attempt to mend fences with an increasingly contentious White House press corps, Vice President Dick Cheney today invited veteran journalist Helen Thomas on a quail-hunting trip to Texas.

“I would like to extend an invitation to Helen to join me on a quail-hunting trip to the Armstrong Ranch,” Mr. Cheney said in an official statement at the White House. “It will be a chance for the two of us to spend some quality time together.”

The vice president’s invitation took many Beltway observers by surprise, coming as it did only one day after a heated exchange at a White House press conference between Ms. Thomas and President George W. Bush.

But Ms. Thomas, never one to shrink from an opportunity, said today that she would be glad to join the vice president quail hunting in Texas so long as the Pentagon provided body armor for her first.

more at:

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1351&srch=

[Maat]

1. WHAT exactly was he trying to tell Helen?

If he really said this, it is the epitomy of tastelessness and arrogance.

But, then, what do I expect?

[tocqueville]

5. it's satire nt

[Maat]

8. I thought it might be.

Although ... with this bunch ... I wouldn't have been surprised if Cheney had really said that.

[bluerum]

2. As long as she gets the first shot I am ok with it! nt

[existentialist]

3. This is a spoof, isn't it?

[libodem]

4. hmmm, very disguised sentiments

guess he'd like to blow her head off, huh? Nice.

[walldude]

6. This is a spoof... get over it

[MrSlayer]

7. That can't be real.

And if it is it can only be construed as a threat.

[Maat]

9. Yeah ... it's satire.

But Cheney's so arrogant he'd threaten people and not worry about it. Heck, he shot a guy. If had been one of the brown people on my sister's caseload who accidentally shot someone on a hunting trip, they'd be in jail on some charge you can bet.

[MrSlayer]

11. Hell, if it was any of us we'd be up on charges.

You don't have to be brown, they hate all of us "peons" equally.

[Maat]

12. You got a point, there! (n/t)

[LARED]

10. It's hard to see the satire until you get to this

Elsewhere, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that his department would beef up security at the nation’s chemical plants by compiling a complete list of plants that are vulnerable to attack and publishing them online.