Collateral Dumb-age
Published on 12 Feb 2006 at 2:34 pm.
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Filed under Politics, Good Manners.
What could qualify as a more perfect example of irony and poetic justice? News flash: Vice-President Cheney just accidentally shot a friend while bird hunting!
Although my first reaction was to laugh out loud, it isn’t funny. I’m sure it isn’t funny for his friend, although I’m guessing the medical response team was hovering nearby. Can’t you imagine the Secret Service radio chatter in the immediate aftermath:
Darth down! Darth down! No, correction: Darth shot Harry. It was a mistake. I think. Hard to say what he was aiming at.
Yeah, and Iraq was close to Iran.
Who would ever agree to go hunting with a man whose past behaviors include:
- offering a hearty “fuck you” to Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor,
- outing a CIA operative out of spite, and
- going to war to prove his neocons cronies right, nya, nya, nya, damn the consequences?
I hope some duly-elected judge out there in Texas (his real home state, by the way, not Wyoming, which merely issued his driver’s licence) sentences him to an anger management class.
Scooter, consider yourself warned.
Buff
P.S. From John Stewart on Monday:
Harry Whittington is the first person shot by a sitting Veep since Alexander Hamilton.