MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: Dead-Eye Dick

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MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: Dead-Eye Dick

By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

I’m enjoying this. The man who put the “vice” in Vice President is now a shooting victim. Mainly of people all over the country, including the nice, compliant White House Press Corpse now taking lots of pot-shots at him. Poor Dick Cheney. Hunkering down in his bunker, besieged from all sides for days, and just because he shot a geezer friend on a weekend hunting trip. Two rich old white men out playing with guns, accompanied by two attractive middle-aged women not their wives. Aw c’mon, guys! With an innocent little ol’ beer at lunch. They wuz just funnin’! Nice, harmless, all-American, great-outdoors recreation with just one little “oopsie” on the side. Just drop it, okay? We’ve wasted too much time and energy on this, when we should be focusing on what the Murcunpeople want. Besides, hasn’t he suffered enough (Cheney, Not Harry Whittington)? Fox “News” balloon-head Neil Cavuto fretted openly that no one had bothered to ask how Cheney feels about all this.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/15/dick-cheneys-feelings

Time to move on, isn’t it? Not on your life. Or on Whittington’s life, either, at least for the moment. No. Cheney HASN’T suffered enough. Not by a -- um -- long shot.

As this column is written, it’s six days since the shooting, and Dead-Eye Dick has only just coughed up some sort of public comments -- for the White House Propaganda Arm, the Fox “News” Channel, of course, and its lead anchor, the constipated and shamelessly compromised Brit Hume. Regardless what he says, or how he tries to talk around it, and to whom, and how much of our sympathy he tries to arouse, Cheney’s behavior up til now has told the story clearly enough, thank you very much.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060216/POLITICS/602160312/1022/rss10

Okay, fine, he’s lamented for the sympathetic Fox cameras how it was the worst day in his life. He’ll never forget the sight of his friend falling to the ground. Horrible, wasn’t it? Poor Dick. Not surprising. He’s never faced this kind of carnage before. Never realized what the contents of a firearm could do to a human face, neck, or chest, even though it appears he’s okay with what it does to creatures farther down the food chain. But, armchair warrior and stay-at-home saber-rattler that he is, he speaks softly and carries a big stick while wearing hunting garb, not his country’s military uniform. Yes, I’m sure it was a stunner, Dick. Worst day of your life. It was probably fairly wretched for your friend/good friend/acquaintance/whatever-you-call-him-this-week, too. Maybe if you’d seen what gunfire does to the human body, up close, earlier in your life, you might have a better sense of what the tens of thousands of Americans your lies have sent into harm’s way in Iraq have to endure every minute of every day that they’re stuck over there. And most of them aren’t much better armored than the hunting buddy was, whom you just sent to the ICU. Or maybe not.

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