Shooter Slips on a Silencer MoDo NYTimes

[TomInTib]

Shooter Slips on a Silencer
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON

Who did this old guy think he was, coming between Dick Cheney and his helpless prey?

The luckless 78-year-old Texas lawyer, Harry Whittington, is in intensive care after a heart attack, with up to 200 pellets riddling his face and body — one stuck in his heart — from Dick Cheney's designer Perazzi Brescia shotgun. And still his friend, the vice president, is Swift-BB-ing him.

Private citizens have been enlisted to blame the victim. Maybe poor Mr. Whittington put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But he was, after all, behind Vice, not in front of him. And the hunter pulling the trigger is supposed to make sure he has a clear shot. Wouldn't it be, well, classy for Shooter to express just a bit of contrition and humility?

Instead, the usual sliming has begun, with the Cheney camp trying to protect the vice president by casting a veteran hunter as Elmer Dud.

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[Patsy Stone]

1. Posted last night

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=424037&mesg_id=424037

[TomInTib]

2. I searched for it and got nothing. Oh, well.