No one who matters is providing ANY details about Whittington.

[tuvor]

Not cheney.
Not bush.
Not Whittington himself.
Not Whittington's wife.
Not Whittington's doctors.
Not cheney's Secret Service detail.
Not cheney's doctors.
Not the rest of the hunting party.
Not Scotty.
Not the office of the VP.
Not the White House website.

Golly, what ARE the odds?

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Well, there WAS that ER Chief earlier today

But, his temper was a little short with the reporters. Kind of got in the way of being told anything.

[tuvor]

4. Is that the guy who said he suffered a heart attack?

That ain't no detail.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. I was being facetious

[tuvor]

10. Flew over my head.

Sorry. :)

[warsager]

2. I just wondered if

His family can sue Cheney?

What really bothers me is that I GENUINELY feel so bad for this man and his family. I am actually worried about him and also feel horrible thinking he has all these things lodged in his fack, neck, chest, oh man.

I want to know how he is doing and there is NO update since early this afternoon!!

WHAT THE F?????

[aquart]

7. Did you read Molly Ivins? You'll feel worse.

He's an expert on the Texas prison system and known for keeping the rabid maniacs in check.

He didn't say anything to Dick about the spying or the torture, did he, do you think?

[warsager]

9. Harry Whittington is an expert

on Texas prison system?

VP is a rabid maniac

[bobbieinok]

11. from Ivins article

...Dick-Cheney-shooting-Harry-Whittington is fraught, as they say, with irony. It’s not as though the ground in Texas is littered with liberal Republicans. I think the vice president winged the only one we’ve got.

Not that I accuse Harry Whittington of being an actual liberal—only by Texas Republican standards, and that sets the bar about the height of a matchbook. Nevertheless, Whittington is seriously civilized, particularly on the issues of crime, punishment and prisons. He served on both the Texas Board of Corrections and on the bonding authority that builds prisons. As he has often said, prisons do not curb crime, they are hothouses for crime: “Prisons are to crime what greenhouses are to plants.”

In the day, whenever there was an especially bad case of new-ignoramus-in-the-legislature—a “lock ’em all up and throw away the key” type—the senior members used to send the prison-happy, tuff-on-crime neophyte to see Harry Whittington, a Republican after all, for a little basic education on the cost of prisons.

When Whittington was the chairman of Texas Public Finance Authority, he had a devastating set of numbers on the demand for more, more, more prison beds. As Whittington was wont to point out, the only thing prisons are good for is segregating violent people from the rest of society, and most of them belong in psychiatric hospitals to begin with. The severity of sentences has no effect on crime.

more....

[warsager]

13. abu-graib gitmo

who knows, what who knows what?

[warsager]

3. I also wondered

if and when we will see him. Do you think the wounds in his face might be a frightful sight? If so, imagine the reaction people would have if we see how terrible it is??

This poor man is almost EIGHTY YEARS OLD!!!!

[Tulum_Moon]

6. And his family is being silenced!

Where are they? This is the most "wide open cover up" I have ever seen! The man will most likely die. I feel like crap. This kinda stuff just makes me ill.

[warsager]

8. Do you really think he might die?

Gosh, it's weird how you said you really feel like crap because I do too.

I was thinking that if I were Cheney I would be sitting nervously outside Harry's hosptial door waiting to hear how the man was. Feeling beyond distraught at my 'accident'. What the F? Isn't that a normal reaction to accidentally shooting your 'friend' in the face with 5 to 200 pellets from a shotgun??????

And this guy....what the f is this guy, this evil, black hole for a soul, F U AMERIKKKA, I answer to NOONE attitude.

But he's right. HE answers to no one.

I LOVE BIG BROTHER.I LOVE BIG BROTHER.I LOVE BIG BROTHER.

[Old and In the Way]

12. The Al Qaeda defense.

Dick uncovered an AQ cell while on his hunting trip and was forced to shoot him. He's probably been Gitmo'd where he'll be held without charges as a national security risk until we win the GWOT. I think I'm kidding....