Alan Simpson (former senator) just made a fool of himself on Tweety.

[DemoTex]

Basically, Cheney's good buddy Simpson blames Cheney's shooting accident on Mr. Whittington. Is there anyone any more stupid or obnoxious than Alan Simpson?

:puke:

[Dees]

1. I hate his bullshit, folksy nonsense.

[carolinalady]

2. According to his story-the guy must have come up on Cheney

to the side because "you don't shoot behind you". He told the story and indicated that the guy came up on the side not behind. I think Cheney did a big boo boo and shot outside his safe range. As per Texas hunting law.

[MADem]

6. Maybe HE doesn't shoot behind himself, but I'm starting to wonder

if old Deferment is a "blast away" kinda guy. That would explain why they have to beat tame game in front of him....maybe he is the type of hunter that cannot, in fact, hit the broad side of the barn at three paces with buckshot!

[Javaman]

3. You know, whittington, should have tried harder to get out of the way...

:sarcasm:

[slor]

4. He also just said...

when you own a "ranch" you do not report such events.

[MADem]

8. Wow, so the injury rates are higher than reported, then?? n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. That's simply not true

Not only should the people involved report it to authorities, so should the property owner/manager if they were aware of the incident.

[MrMonk]

12. So what do you say when you bring the shootee into the hospital?

[DemoTex]

13. The bigger the ranch, the smaller the obligation to follow the rules.

Or so It would seem from Simpson's specious reasoning. Gawd, he is awful!

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Sleazy criminals. What else don't they report on their private ranches?

[Catherine Vincent]

5. He still is.

And he's getting snippy with Matthews for talking about this incident about his friend Dick Cheney. LOL!

[carolinalady]

7. " anytime Dick Cheney makes a fluff" the press are all over him

per Mr. Simpson. Give me a f***ing break!

A fluff?????? That is what we used to call the baby's farts!!!!

:puke:

[WI_DEM]

10. Simpson is one of Cheney's big buddies--it's to be expected

he would take this lie--I mean line.

[hopeisaplace]

11. Everything is everybody else's fault...sooooo republican

typical.
no surprise.

I am waiting for the real leaders of the world
to step up. Lack of leadership is my new theme
in life. There is very little leadership,
responsibility, compassion, compromise and ethics
demonstrated by people in charge. The people
who demonstrate these traits, tend "not to be
visible on tv to the general public". We can't have
that can we? not good for ratings. And, I don't think
I know of ONE Republican who demonstrates ANY of these
traits. I'd love to be wrong.

[goodboy]

14. YEah! If you walk up behind me, & I turn and shoot you, YOUR FAULT!

[Poiuyt]

16. I wonder if Cheney was doing the Annie Oakley thing with the mirror

and shooting over his shoulder.

Yee Haw!

[Uncle Joe]

17. Apparently Whittington was flapping his arms real fast to make

that Dan Quayle sound and bam, the next you know we are in Iraq shooting first and asking questions later, it's all part of the big picture.

[lapfog_1]

18. I grew up on a ranch in Kansas

and my dad took me hunting every fall (mostly for quail, sometimes pheasant).

I was taught a lot about gun safety... including never walking with a loaded gun (our shotguns were all breach loaders, so when we were walking, the breach was cracked). The primary rule was never point the weapon at anything you didn't want to shoot. Period. Rule number two, it is the responsibility of the SHOOTER to know where everyone hunting (and their dogs) were at all times.

Rule three, never walk in front or approach from the side of a group which is hunting, you always approach from behind... AND, it is the SHOOTER's responsibility to know the field of fire and to know when a bird was in the safe zone (about 40 to 60 degrees range in FRONT of the group hunting). You bust up a covey and you have to shoot before they leave the field of fire (no swinging your body around tracking the birds)

and I NEVER heard of any bullshit about "keeping ranch business in the family" (if something were to happen, calling the authorities right away was the only possible action).

Another rule... never kill anything that you do not intend to eat.
(I just saw where on another trip, Cheney and co killed 471 birds... with a hunting party of 10). Just obscene.
If we bagged 1 pheasant and 8 to 12 quails that would be a good hunt. And we usually had 5 to 6 people hunting, no "observers".