{"id":156,"date":"2006-02-12T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/12\/speaking-of-special-isnt-this-just-precious\/"},"modified":"2006-02-12T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:11:42","slug":"speaking-of-special-isnt-this-just-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/12\/speaking-of-special-isnt-this-just-precious\/","title":{"rendered":"speaking of special, isn’t this just precious…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Them boys!<\/strong><\/a> They go a huntin’ and look at what happens! <\/p>\n

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Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.<\/p>\n

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn’t signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See, it’s the responsibility of hunters to constantly yell, "I’m a human being! Don’t shoot me!" and stay out of the way. It’s just standard hunter’s etiquette… <\/p>\n

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"The vice president didn’t see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By God, that old Dick Cheney went and shot himself a lawyer. Pretty good hit too! <\/p>\n

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The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.<\/p>\n

She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.<\/p>\n

"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn’t get in his eyes or anything like that."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No big deal. Why that lawyer could still see out of both eyes! <\/p>\n

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She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.<\/p>\n

"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Vice President alway has a medical team along on a hunt, in case he shoots somebody – standard operating procedure. <\/p>\n

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Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.<\/p>\n

"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I’ve been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Happens all the time. Them boys go out huntin’ and shoot each other up. You’d think they’d save the Bourbon for after the shoot, but it just wouldn’t be the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Them boys! They go a huntin’ and look at what happens! Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday. Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}