Gun Play

Oh my:

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

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Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.

"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

It just isn't Dick "Big Time, Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney's week. First he gets fingered by Scooter Libby as the final say authorizing the leak of confidential information in the Plame Affair case, and then he shoots a fellow hunter in the face.

Wow.

Hope for a speedy recovery for Mr. Wittington.

[Note: Photo is not of Mr. Cheney in the act of firing upon Mr. Wittington. It is, however the photo that the Yahoo news service carries in its reporting of this story in the links above. It depicts Big Time recieving the gift of a new rifle from NRA President Kayne Robinson, Right, and VP Wayne R. LaPierre, at an event in 2004.]