{"id":12836,"date":"2006-02-14T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/cheney-accidentally-shoots-fellow-hunter\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T00:04:00","slug":"cheney-accidentally-shoots-fellow-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/cheney-accidentally-shoots-fellow-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/cheney_gun.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" \/>By now you&rsquo;ve probably heard that a couple of days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/02\/12\/cheney.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dick<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2136145\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/02\/12\/national\/main1307942.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4707354.stm\" target=\"_blank\">shot<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/13\/AR2006021301303.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fellow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/13\/politics\/13cnd-cheney.html?hp&amp;ex=1139893200&amp;en=181b942291c6b3ef&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">hunter<\/a> while quail-hunting on a ranch in Texas, spraying 78-year-old millionaire lawyer Harry Whittington in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. I&rsquo;m going to go ahead and take the low road on this one and post the inevitable satirical links that have already popped up.  More as I come across them :-)&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dickhunt.ytmnd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Hunt<\/a> &#8211; a takeoff on Nintendo&rsquo;s <i>Duck Hunt<\/i>; wait for the music on this one&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travisandjonathan.com\/cheney.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Red State Update<\/i><\/a> weighs in with a funny video update<\/li>\n<li>Bob Cesca has the surprising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bob-cesca\/exclusive-first-photo-of_b_15538.html\" target=\"_blank\">first exclusive photos of the shooting victim<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grouchyoldcripple.com\/archives\/001883.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Ways Cheney Can Kill You<\/a> &#8211; an oldie but goodie&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1320&amp;srch=\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney says shooting of fellow hunter was based on faulty intelligence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1321&amp;srch=\" target=\"_blank\">Homeland Security Department unveils Cheney Alert System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>CNN<\/i> rounds up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/02\/14\/cheney.jokes.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">late-night talk show jokes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenhead.com\/funny\/flash\/cheneys-got-a-gun-154358.php\" target=\"_blank\">Screenhead<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/12\/cheney_shoots_78year.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/ten_ways\/\" target=\"_blank\">The J-Walk Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113987443483717464?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&rsquo;ve probably heard that a couple of days ago Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter while quail-hunting on a ranch in Texas, spraying 78-year-old millionaire lawyer Harry Whittington in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. I&rsquo;m going to go ahead and take the low road on this one and post the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/cheney-accidentally-shoots-fellow-hunter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}