Cheney should stop hunting

[Wezil]

It doesn't seem to work out well for him.

UNION VALE, New York - U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney spent about eight hours hunting at a secluded Hudson Valley gun club where well-heeled enthusiasts shoot ducks and pheasants.

It was Cheney's second visit to Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club in Dutchess County, about 115 kilometres north of New York City. The previous trip was in fall 2001.

Although a heavy police presence kept the media and curious local residents at a distance, Cheney's visit did stir up a bit of controversy when a New York Daily News newspaper photographer snapped a picture of a small Confederate flag hanging inside a garage on the hunt club property.

The photo was shown to New York City civil rights activist, Rev. Al Sharpton, who issued a statement demanding the vice-president leave the club and apologize.

Sharpton's statement was issued hours after Cheney departed the club.

In a statement issued Monday evening, Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said neither Cheney nor anyone on his staff saw such a flag at the hunt club.

It's not clear whether the door of the garage that contained the flag was even open at the time the vice-president was in the area.

The flag flap was minor compared with the controversy that arose in 2006 after Cheney peppered lawyer Harry Whittington with birdshot while quail hunting in Texas. The vice-president was criticized for not immediately going public with the incident.

[snoopy369]

Al Sharpton... Yes, Cheney is clearly responsible for everything anyone around him does, including people who don't work for him or otherwise report to him.

What a media whore ...

[Wezil]

Originally posted by snoopy369

What a media whore ...

Yep. Until Sharpton apologizes for the Tawana Brawley fiasco I don't care what he says.

[DinoDoc]

Maybe Cheney should invite Al on a hunting trip to mend fences.

[SlowwHand]

I hate Al Sharpton. He sucks.

[Patroklos]

Al Sharpton... Yes, Cheney is clearly responsible for everything anyone around him does, including people who don't work for him or otherwise report to him.

I think Al is on to something here. He should immediately apologize for crack dealing, prostitution, and gang land violence.

[DaShi]

It's a minor controversy, but doesn't help this administration's image of good ol' boy elitism.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by snoopy369
... Yes, Cheney is clearly responsible for everything anyone around him does, including people who don't work for him or otherwise report to him.

Cheney is, however, responsible for hanging around with racists.

[Note: I'm aware that in certain places in the South, the Confederate flag is viewed as a symbol of independence and individualism. However, in the North, it's viewed as a symbol of White Supremacy.]

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Cheney is, however, responsible for hanging around with racists.

[Note: I'm aware that in certain places in the South, the Confederate flag is viewed as a symbol of independence and individualism as a cover for it true meaning of White Supremacy.]

Fixed

[Zkribbler]

While you were fixing it, couldn't you have also fixed my misspelling of "aware?"

[DaShi]

I tried to leave your artistic intregrity.

[Dauphin]

What do Cheney and a dog have in common?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7068549.stm

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Dauphin
What do Cheney and a dog have in common?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7068549.stm

Let me guess... This is the dog that shot its master?

I heard about that story earlier. Definitely Wezil material.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by DaShi
It's a minor controversy[..]

It's not a controversy. It's a model example of why the democrats keep losing elections, they're focusing on "scandals" like this as much as they're focusing on scandals like Blackwater or Halliburton. Because the majority of non-partisan independents hear from these scandals only by their names ("Blackwater", "Plame affair", "Hunting scandal"), they'll all blend into irrelevant and incredibly lame personal smears which are utterly irrelevant to real concerns of the electorate. The fact that I found out about this infotainment on salon.com's front page where they referred to it as "controversy" captures the zeitgeist of the new base of the US Democratic party perfectly.

Wow, when VP Cheney went on a personal hunting trip on upstate New York, a co-hunter on his trip chose an un-chic flag which the writer of the article does NOT approve! This is almost as big of a scandal as when VP Cheney selected an un-chic jacket to wear in a funeral ceremony held in a freezing cold weather few years ago. Slate made it their front page story then, too. Clearly it was much more important than how Cheney has used his administration ties to channel billions of dollars of US government money to buy weapon supplies from a company which Cheney has been a CEO of and owns a large share of stocks of during the on-going Iraq war (case Halliburton, which was then uncovered but never really caught on).

[Verto]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I hate Al Sharpton. He sucks.