1 Over the line? Were you expecting something else? Anything else? I'll give you over the line; liberals should all be shot and ground up for dog food. But then, that's actually not over the line, considering.

2 It's inappropriate to judge the left by their over-the-top posts, just like it's inappropriate to judge the right by Improbulus Maximus's over-the-top post.

3 The Bradys' comments are over the line, too.

4 Jeez Louise! It's a freakin' hunting accident. In my book they both accepted the known risks of participating in this form of recreation. Resolution to this is god willing Whittington gets better, punches Cheney in the nose and everybody goes out for beers. End of story.

5 You're almost funny John, and certainly pathetic. The scale has weighed heavily on the Left with 'reasons' to hate for years now. This site, typical of the hard right, doesn't even begin to compare with the vile from Daily Kos etc. Not even close friend. Tho its not hard to find hatred for those who take joy in our soldiers dying, or who excuse and even justify Islamo-facist hatred. The problem is the extreme is becoming the mainstream for the Left.

6 the powers that be are the ones that created the names to confuse you. what a hoot.. cheney does a head shot, come on it is funny..

7 what a lovely website you have here. really. it is so nice to see this country getting along so well. i'm sure that george washington isn't turning over in his grave right now, the man who belonged to no party out of principle. it is so great to see that the two halves of our country use the same if not harsher language to describe the other half as they do terrorists and despots. it is marvellous to see that those people who "serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party," have had complete control over the national government for so long that we the people no longer feel any outrage over this fact, we merely file in line with one party or the other and call each other nasty names. thank you so much for propogating this sentiment. i'm sure our nation will be so much healthier in the future for it.

8 I have it on good authority that the pellet pattern looks like Mo. Let's go burn something! GWB

9 "Karl Rove"

10 > ...liberals should all be shot and ground up for dog food. Radical provocateurs at both ends are known to write in such violent metaphors. Sometimes political leaders echo them while thinking out loud. The dangerous difference comes when right wing is in power. Their followers are much more committed to hierarchy obedience. Occasionally someone with the mindset of the young Gordon Liddy salutes, goes out and does it. Afterward the sycophants privately muse, "Well, Ann Coulter's books could justify it, and besides, the incident capitalized a spectacular IPO for Soylent Green Dog Food, Inc." Sean

11 Add this doofus. He's lucky he's not blind or dead. They removed 50-80 bb's from his face and neck! There aren't that many more bb's in a .28ga! If he was 30 feet away, and using 7.5 shot, that poor dude took the whole blast to the face, and it's all DICK's responsibility. I hope Harry Whittington is really doing ok, after all he is 78 years old. Cheney is not "careless" or "irresponsible" He committed assault with a deadly weapon. He's guilty of misuse of a firearm, and gross negligence. He even broke every single NRA gun safety rule. 1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances. 2. Know your target and what is beyond. Be absolutely sure you have identified your target beyond any doubt. Equally important, be aware of the area beyond your target. This means observing your prospective area of fire before you shoot. Never fire in a direction in which there are people or any other potential for mishap. Think first. Shoot second. http://www.nrahq.org/education/guide.asp Think about this for a second, FOR SAFETY's SAKE, "Think first, Shoot Second" What DICK did: SHOOT FIRST. FIGURE IT OUT LATER. SAME AS OUR IRAQ POLICY. Editor and Publisher has some serious questions about the delay in reporting the shooting also: "The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday. E&P has learned that the official confirmation of the shooting came about only after a local reporter in Corpus Christi, Texas, received a tip from the owner of the property where the shooting occured and called Vice President Cheney's office for confirmation...read on" http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?schema=vnu1&vnu_content_id=1001995719&WebLogicSession=Q1ADKmCosfahQmN2CRtZNJkuFQAArRZR4FJH21KltNTvgQpkwKm9|-5550253749946842751/168887094/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1 What if Cheney had been Latino or African-American instead of a white guy? What if Cheney had been a teen ager instead of comfortably past middle age? What if Cheney had shot a pretty, 14 year old white girl instead of a 78 year old white lawyer? What if Cheney had just been some dude out hunting instead of a millionaire, Republican VP? "The delay in announcing the shooting "will likely be the main question asked of the White House about the apparent accidental shooting of a 78-year-old man during a Texas hunting trip by the vice president," the Tribune's James wrote on the Washington bureau's blog at the newspaper's site. "When a vice president of the U.S. shoots a man under any circumstance," James noted, "that is extremely relevant information. What might be the excuse to justify not immediately making the incident public? "The vice president is well-known for preferring to operate in secret....Some secrecy, especially when it comes to the executing the duties of president or vice president, is understandable and expected by Americans. "But when the vice president's office, or the White House, delays in reporting a shooting like Saturday's to the public via the media, it needlessly raises suspicions and questions of trust. And it may just further the impression held by many, rightly or wrongly, that the White House doesn't place the highest premium on keeping the public fully and immediately informed." Guess that means you guys can stop bringing up Chappaquidick, huh? Neo-cons are WHORES.

12 A source close to the White House claims that the accidental discharge of the weapon might be percieved as a mistake, but the V.P. defends it saying that knowing that he would shoot someone, he would still go on the hunt again.

13 Must be a slow weekend for the left - guess Time's photo wasn't enough to get them off.

14 ok so it says this guy is comming up behind him Cheney is of course aiming at his "target" in FRONT of him. Doesnt it seem kind of strange that this man was shot somehow? Maybe we will here that he thought he was a huge quail!!!!!!!!

15 My, my, your website is full of English mistakes! For example, kindler? I believe the word is kinder. And "...there was 590 comments...." That should be "there were...." Now go to the back of the class!

16 For a group which thinks that pistol grips, bayonet lugs and black finishes dramatically increase the lethality of guns, they certainly consider themselves experts on hunting and the risks involved.

17 I could hear the snivelling and whining even through the alarm clock. You pathetic, bedwetting wastes of humanity sure don't disappoint. Do you think the muslims will have mercy on you? Maybe they will, but I sure as hell won't. All I've heard from you pieces of shit for the longest time is that you're gonna start a revolution; well, get the hell on with it, because all I need is an excuse. Now STFU and go have your morning granola enema you idiotic libtard morons.

18 Your first-grade teacher, What I find remarkably funny is that one typo and a simple grammatical sends me to the back of the class while more than half of the comments at HuffPo are littered with errors on every level. Where does that send liberals; under the school?

19 if dick cheney runs for president ill vote for him any man that shoots a lawyer cant be all bad

20 I think you are all a bunch of fu*kin idiots. Don't you have anything better to do with your time? Try getting a job and doing something with your life.

21 Lori, Now, why would we do that when we can sit around all day and read The Jawa Report? Duh. Is this your day off?

22 Well I don't see any democrats running around shooting at poor little birds from a car. I don't see democrats hunting in the so-called penned hunts. But then who ever said a republican had any character. And cheney has less than most. Post this to all the damn sites you want CAUSE REPUBLICANS DO WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS.

23 Hmmm.... what to say, what to say... First of all it wasn't buckshot. Buckshot would have killed him. It was birdshot. Which barring a direct blast from six inches away(or some approximation there of). Will not typically be lethal to a person. Just makes for a really, really bad day. As for the bickering going back and forth about this. Would it be at all as big a deal if it wasn't a Conservative Republican politician who shot the guy? I doubt it would have made anything more than local news. Or, what if it was a Demacrat(yes there are dem. hunters) that was doing the shooting? This is just sad. And no, I'm not a republican. I'm an independant.

24 Oh, my goodness. I feel just like Ann Coulter.

25 Could this be construed as "a blue on blue", collateral damage or just typical gung ho republicanism?!!! During the Second World War, they used to say "when we bombed the Jerrys ducked, when the Jerrys bombed, we ducked, when the Yanks dropped their bombs, everyone ducked"! Or my favourite, "it couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow" Improbulus Maximus, you are hilarious! Really, you should have your own show.

26 sux to b him

27 My only regret is Whittington didn't fire back.

28 It's getting to the point that any lame story is jumped upon by the Lib/Left. Damn! I'm starting to feel sorry for them - I mean - desperation is becoming soooooo obvious! Maybe we should do an ecard Valentine's for them. This reaction is really quite funny.

29 Hilarious, hondo, and these Dems wonder why they have been out of power for so long. They are pathetic, yet funny, in their desperation.

30 You guys sure it wasn't the result of a duel? Gotta admit, Cheney's had more than a little "honor defending" to do of late.

31 I see that THE BRADY BUNCH(not the TV series)is trying to use this to support gun control what load of bull kaka and just typical of liberals

32 wavygravy Nice to see you back, but you are going to have to do a lot better than that - a weak story only generates weak responses - and weakness is the biggest problem the Dems/Libs & left has - image is very important. Let's face it - all the "negative" commentary here simply succeeds in making myself and others smile and chuckle. I suspect that was not the intended purpose.

33 Oh, if anyone's interested - the incident was reported quickly to local authorities as required and a member of the Armstrong family (their land/hunting party) notified the local media shortly after. Seems the MSM is in a hissy fit about getting the news 2nd hand from a reporter in Corpus Christi Texas - Oh the humility!

34 Hondo! I really was going for the chuckle — admittedly at Cheney's expense. This is a giant tempest in a teapot as far as I'm concerned. I'm no fan of Dick, but from what I've read, this Whittington fellow basically walked into the line of fire as Cheney was pulling the trigger. As a hunter myself, I know how a series of unfortunate mistakes and miscommunications can lead to something like this--though thank God it's never happened to me.

35 OK - I got the chuckle! Fortunately he was a huntin' quail - 28g birdshot. If he switches to big game like elk or moose, I figure few will want to accompany him. Simple Physics F=MA ... birdshot I can deal with.

36 These idiot libtards would be funny if they weren't so pathetic. It really is tragic to see humanity so polluted with such substandard specimens who in an earlier era would have served well as cannon fodder and menial labor, but who now enjoy the benefits of a free society while actively trying to undermine it. So, once more, I say that they should all be ground up for dog food.

37 I am amazed at how few lawyer jokes, etc. ended up here so far. I guess you have to go to comp.sci.physics to get the really cruel stuff. Anyway, I want to point out that getting shot with birdshot is not as small a thing as some seem to think. The trouble is, there is also a packed wad pushing all of the birdshot out. Sometimes this will hold together and act a little bit like a .45 slug out to 20-30 meters. The dude is lucky it was only a 28 guage, as I think a 12 or 16 guage would have killed him.

38 Wow Chris, you're a trailblazer. One HELL of a journalist blogger. "There are idiotic liberals." That's brand-freakin-new. Guess what moron, there are idiotic conservatives too. What's your point? Does the fact that there are idiots who bash Bush and Cheney make Bush and Cheney any less incompetent and dishonest?

39 This is a joke thread so all you pathetically not funny lib/leftists should leave - Maxie can stay - he has a note from his therapist. amir - simple word - valium - you get all inflamed over that?

40 Wow, most of these posts are rather pathetic. I find it amusing that a hunting accident is ... Wait wait... I'm just wasting my time on you halfwits. You people can't read. Someone here has to be intelligent enough to realize that websites like this are simply a waste of hard drive space. Free speech shouldn't cover hate mongering assholes like all of you political tools. Ugh, I shudder when I think of how sad many of my fellow Americans really are.

41 Simon Feel free to quantify free speech - scratch every lil' wannabe leftist and there's a smug lil' authoritarian just dying to come out. We are not your fellow Americans - we just use the same language and currency - seek faux-kinship elsewhere. I am typing with my eyes closed - since I couldn't read it anyway.

42 I think it is important to consider everyones opinion about this unfortunate "accident"...but i do not think that the way to express your opinion, is by taking cheap shots at other peoples user names... example: "Just add it to the long, long list of things Bushpigs aren't competent to handle." Posted by: MoeLarryAndJesus "MoeLarryAndJesus? That alone should let you know what the left things about Christians. But here's one from someone who apparently has some sanity left:" No matter what you think about the this particular situation, it has absolutley nothing to do with sacreligious usernames.

43 i have heard more than enough about the hunting accident. this should be nothing than a brief statement on this matter. i am sure you can find something to report that the public cares about.i have not watched fox news for 2 days because of this nonsense.

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