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Date Posted: 09:27:35 02/13/06 Mon
Author: lump
Subject: Cheney: Kill de wabbit...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A 78-year-old hunting companion of Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering in stable condition Monday after Cheney accidentally shot him during a weekend quail hunting trip, a hospital official said.
Harry Whittington spent "a great night. He slept throughout the night," said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial. She listed his condition as "very stable," but said she did not know if Whittington would be discharged Monday.
Whittington, an Austin attorney, was flown to the hospital after Cheney accidentally shot him late Saturday afternoon at the Armstrong Ranch.
The vice president visited Whittington and his wife before returning to Washington on Sunday. Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," said Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride.
Whittington sent word through a hospital official that he would have no comment on the incident out of respect for Cheney.
Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, told The Associated Press that the accident occurred after Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of a car to shoot at a covey of quail.
She said Whittington went to retrieve a bird he shot. Cheney and the third hunter, whom she would not identify, walked to another spot and discovered a second covey of quail.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," said Armstrong, who was in the car.
"The vice president didn't see him," she said. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
Armstrong said the shotgun pellets broke the skin.
"It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that," she said.
Each of the hunters was wearing a bright orange vest at the time, Armstrong said.
The accident was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.
McBride said the vice president's office did not tell reporters about the accident Saturday because they were deferring to Armstrong to handle the announcement of what happened on her property.
Armstrong said everyone at the ranch was so "focused" on Whittington's health Saturday that it wasn't until Sunday she called the Caller-Times to report the accident. Her ranch is about 60 miles southwest of Corpus Christi.
Sally Whittington told The Dallas Morning News her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck. His face "looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said.
Emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington before he was taken first to a hospital in Kingsville and then transferred to Corpus Christi.
Whittington has been a private practice attorney in Austin since 1950 and has long been active in Texas Republican politics. He's been appointed to several state boards, including when then-Gov. George W. Bush named him to the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
The 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch has been in the influential South Texas family since the turn of the last century. Katharine is the daughter of Tobin Armstrong, a politically connected rancher who has been a guest at the White House and spent 48 years as director of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He died in October. Cheney was among the dignitaries who attended his funeral.
Cheney was legally hunting with a license he purchased in November, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesman Steve Lightfoot said.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- 23, 09:50:26 02/13/06 Mon [1]
I heard about this on NPR this morning. What a jackass.
And if Texas hunting laws are anything like South Dakota's, it's illegal to "road hunt," which means to drive around looking for quarry, and jump out of your car and shoot it when you see it.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tg, 10:04:30 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Yeah, I heard about this yesterday, but ya know this happens often (hunters accidently shooting eachother). He is a jackass, but this is just the icing on the cake. hehehe
This will go down in history, like the president choking on a pretzel.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- still, 10:29:36 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Looks like great power can’t hide great stupidity.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- lump, 11:19:09 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Wabbit Season!
Duck Season!
Wabbit Season!
Duck Season!
(and Bush is home (or may be the companion they're not sharing with us) saying "SUFFERIN' SUCCOTASH!"
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- chrys, 12:27:59 02/13/06 Mon [1]
jesus i am evil and vindictive, cuz all i can think is, oh too bad it wasn't the other way around, and more serious.
brb, there's a knock at my door....
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- lump, 12:43:22 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Chrys - let me guess. It was a CIA agent who heard what you just said!
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tg, 13:59:33 02/13/06 Mon [1]
Lotus is now on Americas Most Evil Thoughts List.
**you are no longer flying under the radar**
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- chrys, 14:58:25 02/13/06 Mon [1]
or you might mean i am no longer allowed to fly!
especially cuz i mean it.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tg, 09:03:46 02/14/06 Tue [1]
I guess this story is getting controversial, because a private citizen was the first person to report the news.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- 23, 10:32:07 02/14/06 Tue [1]
What?
Are they claiming it shouldn't have been released to the public or something? What could possibly be their justification for that?
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tg, 10:50:14 02/14/06 Tue [1]
No, I guess they are saying that the White House was slow in releasing this info to the press, and it was a woman who witnessed what happened told the media. So I guess they are wondering if the White House would have released any statement about the incident if a private person didn't.
I guess the media is always looking for something.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tg, 14:07:19 02/14/06 Tue [1]
WASHINGTON (AP) - The man shot by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney experienced a heart irregularity after birdshot moved into his heart and was moved back to the intensive care unit for further treatment Tuesday morning.
Texas lawyer Harry Whittington was recovering and will be monitored for seven days to make sure more shot doesn't move into other organs,
hospital officials said.
"However some of the bird shot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart in what we would say is a minor heart attack," hospital administrator Peter Banko said at a news conference.
White House physicians who attended to Whittington at the scene after Cheney accidentally shot him were involved in the treatment, the officials said.
OMG Imagine if this guy dies!
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- lump, 14:12:57 02/14/06 Tue [1]
Depends on what politcal party the attending doctors are.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- a light, 14:13:44 02/14/06 Tue [1]
Really! This was kind of a joke until now, but if he dies...
whoa
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- 23, 14:22:26 02/14/06 Tue [1]
So, let me get this straight...
Some of the shot went into his bloodstream? Didn't they do X-rays or something?
Well, what's one more guy that Cheney has killed, though, really?
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- a light, 14:26:01 02/14/06 Tue [1]
good point 23!
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- lump, 08:27:09 02/15/06 Wed [1]
So after the public heard that Cheney shot a 72 year old LAWYER, his approval rating went up 60%. LOL.
OK - that's mean.
But my understanding is that the bb's can move - and that's what happened. Supposedly they are still only keeping the guy to make sure the bird pellet thingies don't go any further into his heart or bloodstream.
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Re: Cheney: Kill de wabbit... -- tuggy, 13:56:38 02/15/06 Wed [1]
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