Cheney reception, Norfolk, TOMORROW: "to show him Americans still care"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

February 24th, 2006 11:02 pm
Vice president to visit to Norfolk on Monday

Associated Press

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to visit Norfolk on Monday to speak at a fundraiser for Republican U.S. Rep. Thelma Drake, who is seeking re-election in November. Invitations to the 6 p.m. hotel reception went out the week before Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner on Feb. 11, Tom Gordy, Drake's chief of staff, said Friday. The event sold out this week, and about 400 people are expected to attend, Gordy said.

Guests want to show Cheney "that people in America still care for him," Gordy said.

"Most people that we talk to are more excited to support him," Gordy said. "They're more bitter at the media over the way he was treated. They feel like this was a horrible thing that happened ... and the media only cared about themselves instead of the condition of the man (who was shot)." Republican activist and attorney Harry Whittington was shot at a Texas ranch after apparently walking out of the hunting line to search for a quail he had shot, according to witness descriptions.

Whittington, 78, was struck by up to 200 shotgun pellets in the torso, neck and face. He sustained a mild heart attack caused by a pellet lodged at his heart three days after the shooting, but was later released from a Corpus Christi hospital. Drake represents the 2nd District, which includes Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the rural Eastern Shore.

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[TomInTib]

1. Wonder if he will get a 21-gun salute? n/t

[MADem]

2. If they are using birdshot, everyone had better DUCK!!!! nt

[Faygo Kid]

3. Prepare to hurl. Big time.

Always fascinating to look at the vacant, loving stares for Bush or Cheney from the brainwashed. The rich and amoral don't have that look; they understand what they are getting from this administration. But, those at the Bush staged events have a certain look that we can anticipate when Cheney goes to Norfolk? Recognize it?

[bobbieinok]

7. looks like crowd scenes from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens

[Canuckistanian]

4. He still won't give a shit about you

When you realize this, you Koolaid guzzlers, you'll finally be free.

[Peanutcat]

5. Wait, wait, wait . . . . .

"Guests want to show Cheney "that people in America still care for him," Gordy said. "

And


"and the media only cared about themselves instead of the condition of the man (who was shot)." "

Am I the only onw who sees the disconnect here?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. No, you've just stumbled upon the Cheney holy grail...

1). Media who doesn't care about how Cheney feels = "bad"

2). People whose first thoughts go to Dick Cheney and how he's handling all this = "good"

3). Whittington, shot in the face, neck and chest, goes through heart attack and ends up with a face that looks like a piece of Alpine Lace cheese = "unfortunate."

:evilgrin:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

8. Aww, isn't that so sweet? And after all he has given us, like the

blasted war in Iraq, like Plamegate, like wonderful spin and revisionism on everything from WMD to who he blamed for the shooting of his "friend."

We really do care Mr. "Insurgency is in it's last throes..."

:sarcasm:

[BenDavid]

9. Would not surprise me, if CNN

cut away from regular programming to show this. You noticed lately how CNN is showing everything bush and cheney do as far as speaking....The once great CNN has taken a turn to the right and they can only blame themselves. Walter Issacson tried his best to get the right wing to start appearing on CNN more, and promised they would not be blindsighted. Yes, the once mighty CNN has fallen to become known as FoxNewsII