# Cheney shoots hunting companion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151 "2006-02-12T21:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/41 "2006-02-13T02:13:42Z")
Maybe Cheney thought he saw a six-foot tall, blaze orange quail. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/42 "2006-02-13T02:34:33Z")
So how long before he’s officially “Deadeye Dick”? Or before the term “lesbian daughter” appears in an article about the shooting? ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/43 "2006-02-13T02:36:47Z")
Evidently all is well, as Mr. Cheney was heard to have yelled “HE’S COMIN’ RIGHT AT ME!” just before discharging his weapon. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/44 "2006-02-13T02:50:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So how long before he’s officially “Deadeye Dick”? You Son of a B—h, I think I broke a rib laughing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/45 "2006-02-13T02:57:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So how long before he’s officially “Deadeye Dick”? Or before the term “lesbian daughter” appears in an article about the shooting? Hey, having a lesbian daughter will throw your aim right off. It’s the double dildoes. Your eyes keep trying to resolve them into a single dildo, and pretty soon you’re seeing a third one, and you can’t tell a Whittington from a quail. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/46 "2006-02-13T03:16:37Z")
I think what happened was Whittington thought he said “Get up.” Cheney was actually saying “Shut up.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/47 "2006-02-13T03:29:46Z")
I know that Democrats are famous for shooting themselves in the foot. It seems that the VP has taken it to the next level. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/48 "2006-02-13T03:36:12Z")
Gotta give him this, he finally found a weapon of mass destruction. Anyone else notice the guy he shot was a millionaire lawyer? No comment here. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/49 "2006-02-13T03:39:26Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Anyone else notice the guy he shot was a millionaire lawyer? No comment here. Hell, he and Bush are probably the only guys who could do that with impunity. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/50 "2006-02-13T03:41:47Z")
> [@alterego](#): > > They were in grass, and he wasn’t at fault. His hunting partner messed up by not announcing his presence. > > At least, that’s what we’ve been told. > > Still the funniest thing i’ve heard all day… Seriously you shouldn’t have to announce your presence. A note for cartooniverse about his comment in the closed thread over in IMHO. You use a shotgun to hunt quail. Not a hunting rifle. Hell lots of folks can’t even hit them with a shotgun, ---
**Author:** ![caveat\_lector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@caveat\_lector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveat_lector)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/51 "2006-02-13T03:50:09Z")
He shot Whittington? I thought he was hunting Quayle? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/52 "2006-02-13T04:48:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Anyone else notice the guy he shot was a millionaire lawyer? No comment here. Comment here. BANG “AAAAAAAAA!!!” “Harry, are you okay?” “Jesus, Dick, you just shot me!” “Are you hurt bad?” “I think I’m bleeding some. We should do something.” “Would a tax cut help?” ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/53 "2006-02-13T05:22:42Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Comment here. > > BANG > “AAAAAAAAA!!!” > “Harry, are you okay?” > “Jesus, Dick, you just shot me!” > “Are you hurt bad?” > “I think I’m bleeding some. We should do something.” > “Would a tax cut help?” ROFLMAO ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/54 "2006-02-13T08:56:14Z")
I’m sending Karl a pair of white mittens so he’ll be cozy on the next deer hunt. I guess Cheney hasn’t seen _The Magic Christian_. Peter Sellers did his bird hunting with a Howitzer. It’s a good thing the Vice President is not at the Olympics. He might confuse the ski jump with skeet shooting. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/55 "2006-02-13T10:43:47Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Anyone else notice the guy he shot was a millionaire lawyer? No comment here. [Warren Zevon] Send lawyers, guns and money - the shit’s about to hit the fan [/Warren Zevon] ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/56 "2006-02-13T12:27:48Z")
**justwannano** , I know. Thank you for the correction anyway. I can see where you made the mistake- the link was a visual joke. The rifle was in a **Zero Haliburton** carrying case. 🙂 I’ve no love and enormous contempt for Cheney, but in all fairness I understand the need for an ambulance stand-by. This was one dumb fucking accident, but accidents do happen around weapons and he IS the Vice President. Add to that his cardiac history and it sounds kind of prudent to have a coupla paramedics hanging around. I hope the gentleman who was shot makes a complete recovery. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/57 "2006-02-13T13:12:37Z")
When the story aired on the six o’clock news, the newscaster who was suppose to do the following story just sat there mute with the look of “If I open my mouth, I will not be able to stop laughing.” Guns don’t shoot people; Vice-Presidents with guns shoot people. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/58 "2006-02-13T14:21:01Z")
from the [NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/politics/13cheney.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) > [@](#): > > In 1999, George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, named Mr. Whittington [the lawyer who was shot] to head the Texas Funeral Service Commission, which licenses and regulates funeral directors and embalmers in the state. When he was named, a former executive director of the commission, Eliza May, was suing the state, saying that she had been fired because she investigated a funeral home chain that was owned by a friend of Mr. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/59 "2006-02-13T14:27:38Z")
[Salon](http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/20/bush/) story about “Formaldegate.” ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151/60 "2006-02-13T15:54:44Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Guns don’t shoot people; Vice-Presidents with guns shoot people. Dang you… stole my joke… But, I have a back-up… **Vice-President Cheney Introduces Tort Reform**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheney-shoots-hunting-companion/344151.md?page=4)