Cheney: "I pulled the trigger"
Wednesday February 15, 2006
The nation's media are falling all over themselves to cover the FOXNews scoop related to Vice President Dick Cheney's mea culpa over Saturday's shooting of Texas attorney Harry Whittington. The interview, with FOXNews Brit Hume, will not run until 6 pm EST -- and the company is making hay with website excerpts. Question: Is it truly a "public admission" when said admission is given to a friendly network as a scoop? Should public officials not have to hold public press conferences for such matters? Or does America Just Not Care?
I talked with my Dad about this accident -- a southerner, he hunted quail for decades in Georgia. He thought the sequence described by the owner of the 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch was odd, at least compared to practice in Georgia. "On most plantations, someone is working the dogs. Hunters don't work the dogs, and they don't walk that much. The man working the dogs picks up the birds, usually. All the hunters do is ride, get out, shoot, get back in and ride some more."
I asked him about target fixation -- one explanation for Cheney's action.
"You should be able to tell if its a hen or a rooster before you pull the trigger. Then you're looking at the bird, you're not just throwing up and shooting at a covey." He went on to say that many times he caught something out of the corner of his eye when in the process of shooting. Even if it's too late to stop the trigger finger, he said it's not too late to move the muzzle into the air.
"If he (Cheney) shot him (Whittington) in the face, he pulled the trigger without knowing what he was shooting at."
Whittington was moved back to ICU Tuesday after suffering a silent heart attack when shot penetrated the heart muscle.
See Bloomberg, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, US Liberals @ About.com.
I talked with my Dad about this accident -- a southerner, he hunted quail for decades in Georgia. He thought the sequence described by the owner of the 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch was odd, at least compared to practice in Georgia. "On most plantations, someone is working the dogs. Hunters don't work the dogs, and they don't walk that much. The man working the dogs picks up the birds, usually. All the hunters do is ride, get out, shoot, get back in and ride some more."
I asked him about target fixation -- one explanation for Cheney's action.
"You should be able to tell if its a hen or a rooster before you pull the trigger. Then you're looking at the bird, you're not just throwing up and shooting at a covey." He went on to say that many times he caught something out of the corner of his eye when in the process of shooting. Even if it's too late to stop the trigger finger, he said it's not too late to move the muzzle into the air.
"If he (Cheney) shot him (Whittington) in the face, he pulled the trigger without knowing what he was shooting at."
Whittington was moved back to ICU Tuesday after suffering a silent heart attack when shot penetrated the heart muscle.
See Bloomberg, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, US Liberals @ About.com.
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