Brent Bozell on Cheney shooting: The incident was funny.

[edbermac]

In his February 14 nationally syndicated column, Media Research Center (MRC) president L. Brent Bozell III wrote of Vice President Dick Cheney's February 11 hunting accident: "With apologies to the Cheney friend who received the pellet facial, the incident was funny."

According to a Google news search, Bozell's column was first posted on the MRC website at roughly 6 p.m. ET on February 14 -- well after news reports indicated that Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, who was part of Cheney's hunting party and is the man Cheney shot, was transferred to an intensive care unit after suffering a "cardiac event" brought on by birdshot lodged in his heart. Bozell further downplayed the seriousness of Whittington's injuries by using euphemisms such as "pellet-facial" and "sprinkled with birdshot."

"Once it was clear that the man sprinkled with birdshot would survive, Vice President Cheney's hunting accident was widely expected to become a late-night comedian's bonanza, a frenzy like Wal-Mart shoppers scrambling for $29 DVD players."

"With apologies to the Cheney friend who received the pellet facial, the incident was funny. Now we learn the vice president received a warning citation from a Texas Ranger for not buying a $7 hunting stamp in advance. As a friend e-mailed me, "Where else can you shoot a lawyer in the face with a shotgun and get off with just a warning?""

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602150004

I'm sure Harry was chuckling all his way into ICU...:sarcasm:

[meegbear]

1. Kinda sad that a man who thinks lying about a BJ is a horrific crime ...

can laugh about someome getting shot in the face.

[Wapsie B]

4. Yes and the news reports made it sound like

the shotgun pellets just poofed out of the barrel and grazed him lightly. It was a shotgun blast damnit!

[unblock]

2. yeah, criminal negligence is hilarious!

[Catherine Vincent]

3. These people must make me sick!

[peacetalksforall]

5. They aren't human. If anyone can figure what speicies they are -

please share.

[Ksec]

6. If he thinks thats funny , the 100 thousands Iraqis dead must be hilarious

[Tulum_Moon]

8. This was not Elmer Fudd shooting Daffy Duck

A man almost had his head blown off by the VP of the USA. He may still die! Where exactly is the funny part?

[Ksec]

10. You may wanna ask Bozo.

Hes the one who said itwas funny.

[shain from kane]

7. This bozo should have been shot when he showed up at

that TV studio in a skirt, trying to make a point about women's lib in the workplace. Does anyone besides me remember that incident?

[Tulum_Moon]

9. No

Do you have a picture? I remember Phil Donahue doing that.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Think it will shakes these assholes' world view

if Whittington dies?

"Gee, had no idea it was so serious. Feel kinda a bad about it now."

[stopbush]

12. When Whittington dies, Bozo will be the first to accuse Dems of "making a

joke out of this tragedy."

I'll bet even money on it.

[giant_robot]

13. Fail to laugh at their sick jokes, and "liberals have no...

...sense of humor". Make a joke and we're hypocrites because we're not adhering to compassionate liberal values. You can't win with these assholes. Fuck 'em.

[400Years]

14. what a scumbag