Take with the regular Capitol Hill Blue shaker of salt:
A written report from Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago says Cheney was “clearly inebriated” at the time of the shooting.
Agents observed several members of the hunting party, including the Vice President, consuming alcohol before and during the hunting expedition, the report notes, and Cheney exhibited “visible signs” of impairment, including slurred speech and erratic actions, the report said.
According to those who have read the report and talked with others present at the outing, Cheney was drunk when he gunned down his friend and the day-and-a-half delay in allowing Texas law enforcement officials on the ranch where the shooting occurred gave all members of the hunting party time to sober up.We talked with a number of administration officials who are privy to inside information on the Vice President’s shooting “accident” and all admit Secret Service agents and others saw Cheney consume far more than the “one beer’ he claimed he drank at lunch earlier that day.
“This was a South Texas hunt,” says one White House aide. “Of course there was drinking. There’s always drinking. Lots of it.”
Doug Thompson always claims to have secret sources for internal White House dirt. His record of getting it right has been mixed at best. But when he claimed the President was going off on angry tirades last August, he had the scoop. It was verified in October by Thomas DeFrank of the N.Y. Daily News.
Let it be true.
Oh please, oh please, oh please.
Hunters getting drunk? I’m not suprised. Well, actually I am that hiding that was even attempted.
actually, I am not suprised about this. One of these days he will not wake up from his sleep or he will keel over dead from all the booze he consumes with the meds he takes for his heart problem. He is a walking timebomb.
Really! My dad never drank because of all the rx’s that he took–drs orders. Actually, he never drank even after his bypass!
BooMan. I would love to read this story, but half of each line is hidden behind the ads in the right hand column on my screen. Can you fix from your end, or tell me how from this end?? Thanks.
what browser are you using?
Yahoo
me too. IE
but maybe it will be fixed when I get back 🙂
this article is not displaying in IE? Or the Capital Hill Blue article?
This one. A third of it is hidden behind the lists to the right and the same with comments below. Obscured behind adds.
Is it fixed now?
Fixed for me, yes.
I left off the closing </a> tag in the last link. That was what was causing it. Another reason to dump IE for firefox.
I was going to mention this too. In Ffx it shoots the post text over to the left, off of the screen. It must be the justification based on a variable width of the right hand column first.
Thanks for fixing it.
🙂
Or to just stick with good old Netscape 7.1, which has the same Mozilla engine as Firefox, and I happen to think is a lot easier on the eyes and on the patience.
something very weird happening. Safari here…
Mystery to me…had to slip in thru comments…everything’s coming up highlighted as a “link”
Why don’t you take this down and start fresh.
It’s the NY daily news link…everthing goes there.
But it’s okay for me on firefox. Weird.
Yes – Firefox is fine.
Me too IE
No probs in Firefox, but text width strays into ad column with IE.
Cheney’s Got a Gun
http://www.toonedin.com/cheney.html
roflmao! An absolute must-watch!
I was talking about the incident with a friend of mine shortly afterwards. He commented that it sounded like “sound shooting”, firing at the apparent source of a sound in hopes of hitting a target before it gets away. Something that apparently happens a lot when hunters get drunk.
I will have to wait for confirmation from another source otherwise it will be wishful thinking.
There is also the fact that Cheney had not shot one bird up until the accident while others had. He had been out all afternoon since his lunch of farmed antelope and did not shoot one ‘fish in a barrel.’ That’s very strange.
I think Dick finally snapped from all the pressure. Harry was known to be strong on issues of the Constitution and other minor details that have been ignored lately. Another odd chance might connect subtle references to people who are aware or familiar with customs of quail hunting. The ones based in some of the quiet societies are strange enough that shooting each other might be acceptable. Other subtle news articles allude to a gay affair of some sort, so it’s hard to tell.
Via Sid Blumenthal at Salon:
I’d say it’d take a bit more than booze to effect this kind of miracle ..
It is hard to imagine Cheney quickly swivelling. Think about it. Add to his bulk and unfit person all the warm clothing and orange hunting costume.
Huffington Post
And you know Laurence. He was the first one to say publicly that Rove was the leaker in the Plame affair.