Word: whittington
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Vice President Dick Cheney decided that Katherine Armstrong, owner of the land on which he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, was the best person to tell the press about the event [Feb. 27]. Cheney handpicked someone who had potentially serious liability issues to give the story to the media even before the President was informed. The disclosure that Cheney and his friends were hunting from their cars without proper licenses adds a smarmy exclamation point to another display of his arrogance and shameful disregard...
...President needed. On the contrary, the circus seems to have provided the media with a less damaging diversion from the really bad news of the week. The shooting generated an 11-page story package, while the 520-page congressional report on the Hurricane Katrina fiasco was underreported. Seems like Whittington literally took a hit for his buddies...
Three weeks after Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington is back to his routine, working all day at his office in Austin, Texas, his friends say. Whittington, who turned 79 last week, won't comment, but the facial wounds from the bird shot are "almost unnoticeable," says restaurateur Bob Woody. "He's back, full force." Whittington's card-playing buddy Joe Greenhill, a retired Texas Supreme Court justice, says, "He's been besieged with people who want him to be their lawyer." And here's an odd sign of Whittington's fame: a collector asked...
...such prima donnas. It made people here feel sorry for the White House." Says Senator Lindsey Graham: "I've seen nothing in my dealings with the White House to suggest that this Vice President has lost any political standing within the Administration." And everyone was relieved to see Whittington emerge from the hospital, grateful to his doctors, gracious to the press, sorry for what Cheney had been through and describing the whole thing as a "cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain...
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington with a 28-gauge double-barreled shotgun. Unlike rifles, which fire single bullets over a wider area. Usually, the larger the game, the larger the pellets used. Because Cheney was hunting quail, he was using birdshot-not buckshot, which is bigger. Whittington was hit in the face, neck and chest at a reported distance of about...