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February 22, 2006
Hoping Dick Cheney never finds out about the Internet
Remember Internet hunting in Texas? It's not too different from the actual kind of hunting they were engaged in.
I couldn't confirm that this is true or find the source of this blog entry (it was emailed to me without context), although mainstream media ave reported on similar canned hunts Cheney has been on, such the Dallas Morning News.
I read that the quail on Ms. Armstrong's property were domesticated, fenced and grown for the specific purpose of providing canned sport shooting for guests. Prior to the hunt, the quail were taken from their cages to various locations on Armstrong's property and released for the shoot, confused and disoriented. One newspaper reports that the quail's wings were clipped and that Cheney's hunting party went out in vehicles (probably SUV's) until they spotted a group of the recently released and dazed quail. At that point, the intrepid "hunters" jumped out of their SUV's to "flush out" the disconcerted birds. The report stated that it would have been almost as easy simply to chase the clipped-wing quail, grab them by the feet, and shake them to death.
Today's Los Angeles Times has an op-ed piece by Jonathan Chait that tries to put the joyful glee over Cheney's accident in perspective, pointing out that the mainstream media are too cowed ever to go after real lies and corruption and scandal so they vent by building up fairly trivial little things like this.
Posted by johnn at February 22, 2006 12:59 PM
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