Is it really a big joke?

The Vice President of the United States of America shot somebody.
That is about the only truth we know.

The media in the US is having fun with the story - jokes abound - but it ain't no joke, this. {David Letterman was brilliantly funny, I have to admit}. W

When I look back through my blog, and I see this little record of history from the perspective of a seeker of truth and knowledge, I wonder a lot.

I had mentioned in a previous post that things are going to be revealed that are beyond our wildest imaginations. In that sense, this fits the bill.
Who would'a thunk.

Sad state of affairs.

From BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4715232.stm

Cheney to give shooting account

US Vice-President Dick Cheney is to make his first public comments since accidentally shooting his hunting companion on Saturday.

Mr Cheney, under growing pressure from politicians and the media to make a statement, will appear on Fox TV.

Harry Whittington, 78, was left with pellets in his body after the shooting on a ranch in Texas, leading to a minor heart attack, doctors said.

He has been moved back into intensive care but is said to be on the mend.

The BBC's Justin Webb says the strange affair has become a potential political liability for the White House.

Democrats have sensed the discomfort of the vice-president and have pounced on it, he says.
'Secretive nature'

Mr Cheney - who visited Mr Whittington in hospital a day after the shooting and telephoned him on Tuesday to offer support - is scheduled to appear on Fox News on Wednesday.

Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, said on Tuesday he thought it was time the American people heard from Mr Cheney.

CHENEY SHOOTING TIMELINE
Sat 11 Feb 1830*: incident takes place
1930: President Bush informed
2000: Bush told Cheney pulled trigger
2115: Whittington is flown to hospital and put into intensive care
Sun 12 Feb 1400: Cheney's office confirms incident to Corpus Christi Caller-Times
1448: Caller-Times runs Katherine Armstrong's account
Early Sun eve: Cheney visits Whittington in hospital
Mon 13 Feb 1500: Whittington moved from intensive care
Tue 14 Feb 0730: Whittington suffers minor heart attack and moved back into intensive care
1330: Cheney calls Whittington to wish him well
*All times EST (GMT-5)

Mr Reid said the vice-president's failure to make any public comment was part of the secretive nature of the Bush administration.

President Ronald Reagan's former press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, said he was "appalled" by the White House handling of the incident.

Katharine Armstrong, the owner of the private ranch where the accident occurred, said Mr Cheney had turned round to shoot at a bird, unaware Mr Whittington was behind him, and sprayed him with shotgun pellets.

Mr Whittington, a lawyer, was hit in the cheek, neck and chest.

Despite the heart problem, doctors said Mr Whittington was now on the road to recovery.

He is now sitting up and eating regularly - and even preparing some legal work, according to a spokesman for the Christus Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Mr Whittington was moved to intensive care for privacy rather than medical reasons, the hospital added.

Doctors have said the lawyer will probably have the pellets in his body for the rest of his life.

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The story reads like a really really really bad novel.
Sighs.
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Wow. And Cheney is taking the blame.

Cheney takes responsibility for shooting

Updated: 6:52 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2006

WASHINGTON -
Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday accepted full blame for shooting a fellow hunter and defended his decision to not publicly disclose the accident until the following day.

He called it “one of the worst days of my life.”

“I’m the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,” Cheney told Fox News Channel in his first public comments since the shooting Saturday in south Texas.

Fox’s Brit Hume, who conducted the interview, said Cheney told him he had “a beer” with lunch hours before the accident. Hume said Cheney told him “no one was drinking” while hunting.

Regarding the more than 20 hours it took for the incident to be reported to the press, Cheney told Hume, “Accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me.”

Katharine Armstrong, who owns the ranch where Cheney was shooting, ultimately reported the story to a local Texas newspaper, not Cheney himself.

“There are a lot of basic important parts of the story that required some degree of understanding,” Cheney said, noting that the reporter Armstrong first spoke with did not know the difference between a rifle bullet and a shotgun shell. “And so we were confident that Katherine was the right one, especially because she was an eyewitness and she could speak authoritatively on it. She probably knew better than I did what had happened since I’d only seen one piece of it.”

Cheney was soft-spoken and somber during the interview.
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It was not Harry’s fault’“You can talk about all of the other conditions that exist at the time but that’s the bottom line and — it was not Harry’s fault,” he said. “You can’t blame anybody else.

I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.”

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Wow. A confession. I didn't expect that. Let's see where we go with this.

Anybody wanna adopt a baby boomer American Woman ?
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