REWIND: Was Deadeye Drinking or Not?
22 February 2006 11:34 pm by Taylor Marsh
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| Deadeye Dick The man who got away with it. |
Fact or fiction, I found this article, I report it – you decide.
If Fox “News” can use that line, so can I.
We talked with a number of administration
officials who are privy to inside information on the Vice President’s shooting
“accident” and all admit Secret Service agents and others say they
saw Cheney consume far more than the “one beer” he claimed he drank at
lunch earlier that day. “This was a South Texas hunt,” says
one White House aide. “Of course there was drinking. There’s always drinking.
Lots of it.” One agent at the scene has been placed on
administrative leave and another requested reassignment this week. A memo reportedly
written by one agent has been destroyed, sources said Wednesday afternoon.
Cheney has a long history of alcohol abuse, including two convictions
of driving under the influence when he was younger. Doctors tell me
that someone like Cheney, who is taking blood thinners because of his history
of heart attacks, could get legally drunk now after consuming just one drink.
Secret
Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer
by Doug
Williams
Mwwaaaaaahaaaa. Here come the stories. One by one, little
by little, the legend is being built. Constructed on the mutilated, dead carcass
drive-by hunters like Deadeye leave out to rot.
Eleven days after the vice president of the United States shot
a man in the face and heart at around 15-18 yards, we get the story of the written affidavits.
Oh, and the Kenedy County Sheriff Ramon Salinas III ruled the shooting an accident.
That we knew, but was Deadeye drinking that day? That we’ll never know.
There’s only one reason why someone doesn’t want to talk to the sheriff after
a shooting accident, something every other hunter in America would have to do. Deadeye got the Secret Service to make sure that didn’t happen, while Deadeye
got Whittington driven to Kingsville, instead of Corpus Christi, which is closer. Then the vice president doesn’t even go to the hospital, instead
he goes out to dinner. But that’s so yesterday’s
news.
What’s really touching is that we find out that Ambassador Pamela Willeford,
shooting next to Deadeye, decided to give him the shot. She says the bird was
out of range. She was standing next to her drive-by hunting partner. Ah, but
she deferred to
Deadeye. Isn’t that darling? What else happened that day?
But we will never know for sure because the owners
of the Armstrong
Ranch, where the shooting occurred, barred the sheriff’s department from
the property on the day of the shooting and Kenedy County Sheriff Ramon Salinas
III agreed to wait until the next day to send deputies in to talk to those
involved.
NBC News had to file an “Open Records Act request” to get the affidavits.
But let’s remember, they were written between 4-7+ days after the shooting.
But we’re never going to get the full truth, baby, old Deadeye made sure of
that.
There are six new affidavits from members
of the shooting party. Most are dated Feb. 15, four days after the
shooting. One is dated Feb. 17, almost a week after the vice
president accidentally shot his friend, Harry Whittington. Some
law enforcement experts say that’s an unusually long period of time,
after a shooting, to gather written statements from witnesses. Ideally, they
say, investigators like to get such affidavits when memories are still fresh,
and can’t be influenced by other witness accounts. Documents
support Cheney’s shooting account
Did anyone actually think the documents wouldn’t support Cheney’s
story? Puh-leaze. To top it off, Deadeye got lucky with Terror Guy
tripping over his oblivious presidency, as his aides thought they could slip
a Dubai deal through without Congress waking up.
It’s a new game we’re playing, watch the Administration implode,
week two in the latest installment. Coming on the trail of Deadeye’s bad shot,
it just keeps getting worse. After seeing Deadeye in action, the country has
decided Iraq
was a mistake. Deadeye scared
O’Reilly so much he even said we have to leave Iraq now. Hey, but Deadeye
should look on the bright side, at least all the affidavits match.
Several of the statements say that no
one was drinking alcohol during the late-afternoon hunt — again, consistent
with the vice president’s account. One member of the hunting party does volunteer
that she had a glass of wine at lunch, four hours before the accident.
Nobody remembers if the quail Deadeye was after was in front of
the group or behind them. Umm, excuse me, but the point is not just where the
quail is, but where your fellow hunter is, which seems to be lost on these drive-by
hunters. That’s why Whittington got shot
in the heart by the vice president in the first place. Deadeye had his head
up his ass, as my husband so eloquently stated when this got started, pulling the trigger when he
didn’t have a clue where everybody in his party was located.
Let’s just call it the Armstrong amateur drive-by hunting hour,
starring Deadeye Dick. But one thing good about being second in command to Terror
Guy. You don’t have to wait long before the dork at the top takes the heat off
your own under the influence stupidity.
But at least Deadeye Dick got everyone to tell the same story,
including waiting days afterwards before they turned them in to the sheriff.
Access has its privileges, even when the vice president shoots a man, evades
authorities for hours, doesn’t tell his boss, who just happens to be the president
of the United States, then believes he also doesn’t owe the American people
an explanation when he shoots a man at 15-18
yards, but gets everyone to say it was actually “30 yards.” Oh,
and no one was drinking, but one lady now had a “glass of wine at lunch.”
Deadeye got lucky. He even got the man he shot to say he
was sorry. Nice touch Dick. With the conservative
cliterati falling
all over themselves to save him.
Oh, and sorry about all the rumors, but that’s what happens when
you try to hide the truth. We thought you’d learned something from Iraq. Have
a cocktail, maybe it will make you feel better.
Oh, but don’t expect the rumors and stories go away. Deadeye Dick
is a legend that’s here to stay.
