Shooting Match

Aw, the poor Veep. Imagine being in his shoes right now. But there's little sympathy from post.com readers over
Dick Cheney's hunting, er, mishap. On a personal note the whole thing has made me contemplate a career change. Turns out I want to be a comedy writer. Has there ever been a more fertile comedic moment? Well, not from Mr. Whittington's perspective perhaps, but you gotta admit...anyway fans, here's the readers' takes.

Talk about the ultimate in unsympathetic and insensitive, Corvette1975 writes, "I just think it's a shame that Cheney was the shooter and not the shootee...."

Hamblett1957 sees intrigue afoot. "He is still too hung over to comment. If I shot (not sprayed) a man on my property, I don't believe the police would allow me to wait 18 hours before they interviewed me. Why the delay? Since he won't say, I can only surmise that it is because he was hammered."

Cheney's non-response response leads DFrantsen to a sure conclusion. "...neither Bush nor Cheney have any regards for the law."

This question from BenAMarine2 comes outta left field. "With this birdflu thing going on what were they doing out hunting quail?"

Everyone's a comedian, including MARCAURELIUS who deadpans, " Who is he? 'James Bond? License to maim?'" Yuk, yuk, yuk.

miltong2002 is in there fighting the good fight on the administration's behalf, lest we have some kind of "imbalanced" situ-miation on our hands, and, you know, the biased media making out like a VEEP shooting a guy is, like, NEWS or something. He writes, "...the real issue here seems to be the petulant whitehouse press corps who seem to feel that they are owed an apology for whatever they imagine offends them from one day to the next. I feel it is the press who owes us an appology for creating a tempest over nothing."

By Lindsay Howerton |  February 15, 2006; 2:00 PM ET  | Category:  Politics
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