skippy the bush kangaroo: why cheney's hunting "accident" is even less funny than you think

Monday, February 13, 2006

why cheney's hunting "accident" is even less funny than you think

yes, it's terrible about mr. whittington getting shotgunned in the face. that cannot be pleasant, and amberjane, a plastic surgeon over at dkos, tells us the trevails he is looking at.

according to all reports, mr. whittington will survive (however, we opined last night, upon hearing the news tell us mr. whittington is doing fine in icu, how fine can you be doing if you're in the icu?).

but there are other victims in this hunting experience that didn't survive. the domesticated animals raised in a pen to be released and shot at by cowards like cheney. from an old pittsburghchannel.com page, following a similar "hunting" expedition by the vice-president three years ago:

the pittsburgh post-gazette reported today that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the rolling rock club in ligonier township for the benefit of cheney's 10-person hunting party. the group killed at least 417 of the birds, illustrating the unsporting nature of canned hunts. the party also shot an unknown number of captive mallards in the afternoon.

"this wasn't a hunting ground. it was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals," states wayne pacelle, a senior vice president of the humane society of the united states. "if the vice president and his friends wanted to sharpen their shooting skills, they could have shot skeet or clay, not resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures planted right in front of them as animated targets."

thanks to mr. furious's dkos diary for the link.

addendum: here's the humane society's reaction to cheney's latest canned hunt adventure.

cbs is wondering why it took a whole day for the news to get out.

and dan froomkin reports that cheney has yet to say "sorry."

posted by skippy at 12:22 PM |