Cheney's Law
by tristero
Always blame the victim: "This all happened pretty quickly," Ms. Armstrong said in a telephone interview from her ranch. Mr. Whittington, she said, "did not announce — which would be protocol — 'Hey, it's me, I'm coming up,' " she said.
"He didn't do what he was supposed to do," she added, referring to Mr. Whittington. "So when a bird flushed and the vice president swung in to shoot it, Harry was where the bird was."
Mr. Whittington was "sprayed — peppered, is what we call it — on his right side, on part of his face, neck, shoulder and rib cage," she said, noting that she, too, had been sprayed on her leg in a hunting accident.
"A shotgun sprays a bunch of little bitty pellets; it's not a bullet involved,"
Must news reporters always exaggerate and say Vice President Cheney "shot" someone? That's just not true!
It's not as if he actually fired a big bad bullet. Just little bitty pellets. Couldn't harm a fly. And, good heavens, Harry wasn't even "sprayed" with little bitty pellets. He was just peppered. You ever pepper steak tartare? Oh, dear, that wasn't in good taste, was it? Tee hee!
Now run along like a good little girl and don't you dare go talking to anyone else who was there. Just do what you're supposed to do, write what I said, and you won't get hurt. Like Harry.
Besides, my child, it was his own fault, now, wasn't it?