Cheney to hunt at Rolling Rock (Today-Scene of Pheasant/Duck Massacre)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_487539.html

Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to arrive in Westmoreland County this morning for a day of hunting at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, a White House spokeswoman said Sunday.

Cheney will land this morning at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe and travel by motorcade to the private club, where he will join unidentified hunting companions, Cheney spokeswoman Lee Anne McBride said.

McBride said he will do his morning briefing in Washington, D.C., before flying to Western Pennsylvania.

McBride said Cheney will not participate in any public events while in the county and will return to the capital this evening.

An avid hunter, Cheney is no stranger to Rolling Rock. He has made several trips to the club since 2002. During a 2003 trip to Rolling Rock, he bagged more than 70 pheasants and mallard ducks.

[soothsayer]

1. Sneer face has never heard of sporting clays, i guess, which are

TREMENDOUS fun! What kind of creep has to kill 70 pheasants in an outing? (tho I'm sure he's picturing 'peasants')

[tblue]

14. No, he's picturing Democrats

[Joe Bacon]

27. Hey, who is Dick's SPECIAL GUEST VICTIM this time?

George P Bush? (wishful thinking) :evilgrin:

[TheCowsCameHome]

31. Will the birds be dressed as Harry Wittington for Elmer's benefit?

[brentspeak]

46. "Sneer Face"!

:thumbsup:

Sounds like one of Dick Tracy's villians.

[SpiralHawk]

2. If Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney wants to wield a gun

he should go to Iraq, where he and Commander AWOL have sent our sons and daughters to fight and die for a republicon crony oil & munitons Profits War.

Their lies -- and crappy aim -- have cost thousands of lives. Needlessley.

And made America Less Safe.

[Erika]

4. Cheney never had the guts to protect his country

and his sports seem to be canned and contrived. The coward.

[Dean Martin]

6. yep. a coward

He probably likes those aerial wolf hunts too. Actually, maybe he should go on one of those. He'd shoot the other chopper down!

[saigon68]

35. Nice Cartoon of the (drunken) AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[Erika]

3. So Cheney is going to shoot tame birds

who are flushed out for the shooting pleasure of so called hunters. What bs. What total bs.

[nosmokes]

8. hate to burst your bubble miss erika,

but in these hunting *clubs* as a rule the birds aren't flushed out of anything. they are in fact, shaken or in some cases actually grabbbed from the cage and thrown out. it's real sport for real men. in the same sort of way dousing cats w/ gasoline and putting a match to emto see how fast they can run is great wholesome fun. it's about the same level of cruelty. it's certainly the same level of sport.

as someon who used to hunt, and would again if health allowed, what i don't get is that for me and the hunters i know, at least half the joy of the hunt is watching the dogs work. it's such a grand sight to see some well trained dogs who love what they're doing out in the field working for the scent and the honing in on, sighting and flushing the birds. i don't understand, at all, the draw of driving up to a spot in the road and having someone shovel birds with clipped wings twenty feet in front of me so i can kill some helpless creature. and then hafta pick birdshot out of it when i eat it? hell, i'd rather just wring it's neck. or just stay home.

[Erika]

10. Sick, huh?

It's repulsive. Just imagine Cheney killing a farm bird and calling himself a great hunter. How twisted. But that is the GOP.

[frankly_fedup2]

43. I live in the same town as the two-headed calf, and there is a place

not far from where I live that a couple men own that the big wealthy Nascar drivers, celebrities (unnamed), Country Music Stars, etc. LOVE to go hunting for deer, boar, duck, turkey, bear, etc. One catch though . . . these animals are practically hand fed until the hunters come. It's not just the politicians, it appears to be those with wealth and not enough time to have to really hunt, track, work for the kill of an animal they will never eat.

Hunting, IMO, for live animals I hate it as a sport. If you are killing an animal to feed your family, that's another thing, but just for the sport so you get a pelt, a stuffed head on your wall or a bird that a taxidermist prepares for a hunter to mount on their wall at home or office, it just doesn't seem right to me.

However, the lowest of the low go to the hunting clubs where the animals have no fear of humans. After all, the humans feed them and feed them well . . . why should they be scared of a human.

Now the two-headed calf is pathetic. It's mouth is like a cleft lip and palate deformity some babies are born with but with two tongues. They have to be tube fed until surgery because they cannot nurse the majority of the time.

Kirk is tube feeding it for now, but they have called Virginia Tech to take the animal to study and care for it because he has a really big dairy farm and this one calf takes up a lot of his time. And there is no way Laura (his wife) would feed this calf. She was first runner up for Mrs. Virginia about ten years ago, so I know she doesn't fool with any of the cows. Problem is, Virginia Tech is one of the few Veterinary schools in the nation and they use animals like this to study. They would not care for that calf by tube feeding it all its life. It's a shame it wasn't born already dead because either way, there is not going to be a happy ending for this calf unless there is some surgery they could do to make it able to feed on its own. It's really sad. I think Ripley's has come down and done a story on it.

I'm sure after it's dead, the bidding will begin (sad).

[rhino47]

18. Pheasants are thrown from a tower in front of the hunters.

I have personally seen this at one of theses "hunts" Most disgusting thing.

[ShortnFiery]

21. That's just sick!

I remember when I was a little girl of about 6 years old living in rural South Dakota (all but Sioux Falls and Rapid City can be considered "rural" - LOL) ... my dad, my two brothers, and our mixed breed dog "Friend" returned home late in the day with TWO Pheasants after a full day of hunting. We were still PLEASED. I helped them meticulously clean and gut the birds. We cooked them the next night. BTW - Pheasant, IMO, is the most delicious game bird. Yummmy! ;)

For the life of me, I don't understand what sense of accomplishment these spoiled wealthy or corporate men and women derive from shooting birds that are "set-up" for you. Even the thought disgusts me. They have no conscious ... no shame. I doubt if Cheney's family ate any of those 70 Pheasants or Mallard Ducks that he shot last year. What a waste. :thumbsdown:

[Webster Green]

5. Cheney is a wussy..

Shoots tame birds, flushed out of a cage.

The birds are probably drugged as well, to make sure the big dick gets his limit.

[TomInTib]

7. The birds aren't drugged, but it is their first flight (and their last)

They take 'em right out of the coop, put them in a pen in the back of a truck, drive for a few miles over rough country, take the birds and shove them headfirst into the bush.

They fly up wondering what the heck to do and you just shoot them.

Pretty much sucks.

[Erika]

11. That is so sick, and so cruel

and that's how Cheney entertains himself? If the working class knew about it they they would throw up on him in disgust.

[Up2Late]

9. If you missed it (or just want to see it again), here the link to The Daily Show's "report"...

...on what these "canned hunts" really are like:


Click Thumbnail to view video
Bye Bye Birdie -- Nate Corddry goes on an Easter egg hunt...of death.

Warning: The this video does show one pen-raise Pheasant getting shot out of the air.

<http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/browseresults.jhtml?showId=934>

[Kolesar]

39. "I want to kill a hobo"

Ok, different segment. That was Rob Cordray a few years ago on CC:TDSw/JS.

[oblivious]

12. I tmust take some guts to be one of his "unidentified hunting companions".

[Justitia]

17. Yeah, they stay "unidentified" until it's verified they survived the experience.

If this human slug wants to shoot & kill for kicks, he should get his fat ass to the Middle East and quit using helpless animals as proxy.

God, what an obnoxious waste of oxygen Dick Cheney is.

[bananas]

13. Isn't that where that spooky movie was filmed?

"Incident at Rolling Rock" ???

[RamboLiberal]

15. Report from 2003 "Hunt"

Dick Cheney is under fire for shooting birds. The Vice President has come under attack from an animal rights group for participating in a “canned hunt” in which he reportedly killed pheasants that were released for the purpose of being shot by hunters.

The increasingly low-profile V.P. was taken to Pittsburgh by Air Force Two earlier this week where his “security detail loaded him and his favorite shotgun into a Humvee,” and went to Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. There, he and nine other hunting buddies shot at 500 ringneck pheasants, killing 417 of them. The V.P. was credited with offing 70 of the birds, as well as an unknown number of mallard ducks.

The shooting spree prompted an outraged letter from the Humane Society. “This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals," Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice president of The Humane Society of the United States, wrote in a letter of protest, according to ThePittsburghChannel.com. “If the Vice President and his friends wanted to sharpen their shooting skills, they could have shot skeet or clay, not resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures planted right in front of them as animated targets.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3675813/

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Details of the exact nature of the hunt were also hard to come by. Officers at the private Rolling Rock Club, which meanders over 10,000 acres in Ligonier Township about a 90-minute drive from Pittsburgh, did not return numerous calls seeking comment. Employees reached in the club's dog kennels said they had been ordered not to speak to the news media. The employees added that they did not know what had become of Scott Wakefield, a dog handler at the club who was quoted by The Post-Gazette as saying that 500 birds had been released from nets for the hunt.

If nets were used, bird-hunting experts said, Mr. Cheney and his party were probably prepositioned with shotguns on the ground or in blinds in trees. Another possibility was that the birds were released from a tower, with Mr. Cheney and the others ready for them on the ground. A final possibility was that the pheasants were released early in the day or the night before, and Mr. Cheney and his companions then went after them on foot.

Whatever the case, hunters generally do not embrace any form of the practice as a substitute for the real thing.

"I don't see anything terribly wrong with it, but I don't think it should be confused with hunting," said Sid Evans, editor in chief of the outdoor magazine Field & Stream. Shooting pen-raised birds, he said, "is a great way to train dogs, and it's a great way to educate young hunters."

Mr. Cheney often hunts in the wild, and his office would not discuss how frequently he shoots pen-raised birds at private clubs. The Post-Gazette reported, however, that Monday's trip was the second time Mr. Cheney had visited Rolling Rock. The newspaper also said Mr. Cheney had spent Monday afternoon at the club shooting an undetermined number of mallard ducks.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1215-07.htm

[Raine]

16. Wonder what old guy

he is going to bag in the face along with all the pheasants and ducks he slaughters. :puke:

[Eurobabe]

19. "where he will join unidentified hunting companions" one of whom won't be Harry Whittington

LOL :hi:

[ShortnFiery]

20. For us common pheasants hunter folks ...

who actually track the birds through open terrain, our limit was FOUR.

It sickens me that a true HUNTER would get ANY pleasure from this figurative "shooting fish in a barrel" type bird killing? <shrug> Where's the sport?

The people that PAY to shoot (they're not hunting in any real sense of the word) at these places are some sick puppies. :grr: :puke:

[DrDan]

22. what was that woman's name who was with Cheney on the previous shooting?

I wonder if she is accompanying him this time . . .

[DrDan]

26. oh yeah - Pamela Willeford - former Ambassador to Switzerland

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0222061cheney2.html

I wonder if she with with Dick during this past weekend

[TheCowsCameHome]

32. You know the one - the traveling trauma nurse.

[jimshoes]

23. He's also no stranger to

Pabst Blue Ribbon, Stroh's, Carling's Black Label, Miller, Budweiser and a whole host of distilled and malt beverages. Oh, Rolling Rock is a place.... Never mind. :evilgrin:

[Vinca]

24. There are no Democratic senators on the trip . . . right?? nt

[Missy M]

25. It's Monday morning, beginning of the work week...

shouldn't Cheney be at his desk. I'm sure he is flying at the taxpayers expense and why does he need a motorcade. Why does he have to be shooting pheasants and mallard ducks, I wish he would find another hobby to be avid about.

[Vidar]

28. Once you've tasted lawyer, birds just won't do the trick. Poor Dick.

[Justitia]

38. ROFL!!!!!! -eom

[Elidor]

44. LMAO!

You win the thread. :rofl:

[Botany]

29. Although I did not get out this season as a hunter (deer & small game) ...

.... what Cheney does is not hunting it is killing. 70 pheasants in the AM and then
ducks in the afternoon? Why doesn't he just go to a slaughter house and kill
livestock all day?

BTW When he shot the guy in the face he was using a $28,000 shotgun.

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. Nothing like a case of Rolling Rock longnecks before the hunt.

[Thor_MN]

33. Hmm, not only no names, but no number of killing companions

Making it easy to leave out the one that Deadeye is going to shoot in the face in the after action report.

[brooklynite]

34. I was there a few years ago...

My brother's in-laws are old members and invited us for a weekend. A very old-money bunch, no locks on the hotel room doors (because, how could you not trust everyone else), and no menu prices or bills (it all just shows up on your host's monthly tab).

[goclark]

36. Why doesn't he pick up a GD gun and go to Iraq!

He is such an insult to our soldiers and our country.

[Beaverhausen]

37. Doesn't he have some work to do? Is murdering birds really what his job is?

I mean, the pResident is about to announce a troop surge. Shouldn't the VP be in in Washington, you know, doing something?

Not that I really want him to but...he is getting all that money from Halliburton.

[rinsd]

40. In "unrelated" news, Harry Whittington decided on a change of outfits

[PurityOfEssence]

41. So how many Rolling Rocks is his fowlness going to have this time?

Must kill. Must kill more.

[stonecoldsober]

42. DUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kitty1]

45. Is the local hospital on standby n/t