Man shot by Dick Cheney: "I was lucky" to escape death

[HomerJS]

Minimizing his injuries, allowing the White House to blame him for the shooting and no apology from Dick Cheney??

This sheds lights into what kind of human being Cheney really is...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39666953/ns/us_news-life/?Gt1=43001

 

[boomerang]

Thank you.

He'll not get my vote after reading this.

 

[trenchfoot]

Well, the tell of the tale teaches that you don't elect people like that ever again. EVER.

 

[xj0hnx]

Minimizing his injuries, allowing the White House to blame him for the shooting and no apology from Dick Cheney??

This sheds lights into what kind of human being Cheney really is...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39666953/ns/us_news-life/?Gt1=43001

"The lawyer shot five years ago by then-Vice President Dick Cheney"

Thank you.

He'll not get my vote after reading this.

Yea no doubt, there is no way I'll vote for this guy again :whiste:

 

[PingSpike]

Cheney shot him in the face, hoping to harvest the organs from his body to further extend his own unnatural life.

 

[werepossum]

"The lawyer shot five years ago by then-Vice President Dick Cheney"





Yea no doubt, there is no way I'll vote for this guy again :whiste:

When someone shoots you in the face with a shotgun, that warmth you subsequently feel for them eventually wears off.

LOL Boomerang.

 

[JD50]

Really? You're making a thread about this?

 

[Drako]

Cheney shot him in the face, hoping to harvest the organs from his body to further extend his own unnatural life.

You would have thought he would have shot someone younger though. Cheney's obviously not very smart

 

[KB]

Amazing that the man apologized to Chaney for getting shot, but Cheney never apologized for shooting him. Most of us knew about Darth Cheney so I guess this isn't that big a surprise.


"After the shooting, Whittington issued a statement saying he and his family were "deeply sorry" for "all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through."

 

[woolfe9999]

The legal view is that when you are involved in an incident wherein another person is injured, it is foolish to apologize to that person, particularly where any third party can hear it. An apology is usually considered a tacit admission of legal responsibility. That is separate and apart from the political ramifications of tacitly admitting guilt.

Based on Whittington's refusal to comment on whether Cheney apologized in private, I suggest the following alternative scenario: Cheney did apologize to Whittington in private, and at the same time wrote him a big check, part of the terms of the settlement being that the apology be kept confidential, because Cheney did not want to publicly admit his responsibility.

Cheney is a class A asshole, and I think the White House blaming the victim here was beneath comtempt. However, I wouldn't assume that Cheney didn't apologize in private, or feel bad about the incident.

- wolf

 

[Corn]

Victim:

Harry Dean Stanton:

Seperated at birth?

 

[Thump553]

This guy seemed like such a loyal soldier at the time, I'm astonished that he finally came forth publically so many years after the shooting.

woolfe9999, I think you are reading far too much into it. I'm not sure where this shooting took place and what the statute of limitations is, but it almost certainly has passed. Cheney's apology would create no liability-as if there was any question as to who the shooter was in the first place. If there was a confidential settlement, the victim/lawyer would never have strayed beyond "no comment." I worked with an elderly lawyer who seems to be a clone of Whittington. Based on my experience and the comments made in the article, I think the article's conclusion that Cheney never manned up and apologized privately is almost certainly correct.

 

[Perknose]

Victim:

Harry Dean Stanton:

Seperated at birth?

Harry Dean Stanton, one of my favorite actors of all time. :wub:

Paris, Texas and Repo Man are two of my fav indie pics of all time! :thumbsup:

 

[trenchfoot]

Hey, the resemblance is pretty cool. thanks for sharing.

Woolfe makes good sense. However, for the eight years that I've kept tabs on Cheney, and keeping in mind that thingie about "birds of a feather" makes me not too sympathetic toward the guy that got the lead implants and rather surprised he didn't somehow trip and drop his shotgun in such a way as to return the gesture in Cheney's general direction.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

"The lawyer shot five years ago by then-Vice President Dick Cheney"





Yea no doubt, there is no way I'll vote for this guy again :whiste:

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

 

[trenchfoot]

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

And all along the border with Mexico on the Mexican side.

 

[PingSpike]

"Shooting" is an exaggeration. I have it on good authority (second highest in the land at the time) that he actually just "peppered him pretty good". So while Cheney did mistake his hunting partner for a bird, he actually just seasoned him with pepper accidentally when he went to prepare the bird for roasting.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Wait, Cheney's an asshole?? Wow, where have I been?

 

[Balt]

Nothing is, was, or ever will be Dick Cheney's fault, according to him.

 

[bfdd]

You don't fuck with Dick Cheney. Highlanders are dangerous.

 

[irishScott]

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

lol right. Because America is the only place where the rich have the power to squirm out of justice. No way that could ever happen in the UK.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

Hell...you can even lie to a Grand Jury under oath and get away with it here if you're powerful enough!

 

[Woofmeister]

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

LOL. Since I assume you mean criminally charged, you should know that negligence, even gross negligence that does not result in death is unlikely to result in any type of criminal charge in the United States no matter who you are.

 

[JD50]

So fucking what, it's an example of how this works, if you are powerful enough you can shoot people without being charged with even negligence.

ONLY in America.

Come on Jake, you're smarter than that.

 

[Craig234]

Thank you.

He'll not get my vote after reading this.

Such a clever boy.