Old Guy Hunting...

It just might be time for the Vice-President of the United States to put away his firearms and stop trying to project his first hunter persona.
About once every three months Dick Cheney shows up in a different region of the country and goes on one of those LBJ style hunting outings where various birds of a feather are pre-stocked in advance of his party and basically a shotgun intensive slaughter takes place. Whether or not the unfortunate fowl are collected and shipped back to the Blair House freezers is not known but the VP’s prowess with a shotgun is always noted.
Saturday, unfortunately Mr. Cheney hit more than the quail that were the bird of the month. Mr. Harry Whittington 78, an Austin attorney and longtime Republican Contributor was hit in the face, neck and chest by shotgun pellets from the VP’s gun when Cheney thought he was firing at a covey of quail that arose suddenly behind him. Mr. Whittington is reportedly doing fine in a Corpus Christi area hospital. Described as a friend of the VP Whittington evidently had come up unannounced behind the hunting party and may have been partially responsible for disturbing the quail which Cheney suddenly swung around 180 degrees to shoot at.
Ironically Whittington was once appointed by then Texas Governor George W. Bush to the Texas Funeral Commission.
Whether a cover up of the accident was intended is not known but the VP’s office did not report the incident until after 24 hours had passed. The public began to learn of the accident on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times website after one of their reporters noticed Whittington’s name on a hospital admittance report.
Cheney reportedly had been at Whittington's bedside Sunday afternoon.