Alan Simpson: Cheney's an expert shot & hunter... sic. If you don't know

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

what you're doing on a hunt you're going to get hurt (inferring fault on the vic.

The spin is in... Now he's saying Cheney hit doubles all the time.

This is Tweety's "expert" tonight.

Jezuz on a pogo stick.

[blm]

1. Kerry is an expert hunter and marksman and Cheney pretended he wasn't so

they could play Democrats want to steal your guns for the election.

[MSgt213]

2. Did he mention that it appears that Cheney did a 180 and shot behind him?

The guy is supposed to have approach from the rear. How would anyone who didn't want to get shot approach a group of hunters?

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. He sounds like he's trying too hard.

He's an example of last year's Republican white man.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. I swear, I think his head was about to explode trying to put a good

light on Cheney here.

[okieinpain]

4. hahahahahahahahaha.... I could swear that simpson was in a

video back during the gulf war, and told saddam, "the only thing he had to worry about was the media".

[JohnnyRingo]

5. He was spinning so fast, I was getting dizzy

I hope whittington gets so enraged by this slime machine that surrounds the administration that he comes out publicly with the real truth.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Boy, is he carrying Cheney's water tonight.....

[napi21]

7. Actually Simpson seems to know exactly what he 's talking about.

I belie he is relating the story that was told to him about what happened in that field, but he's right about how you hunt and shoot.

Alan is definately Cheney's friend and doing his best to cover for him.

[Roxy66]

9. Bullshit.....I grew up with guns (not anymore)....

Simpson just trashed Ranchers by saying they would hide this....and he is full of shit describing how to hunt. Cheyney swung around and shot behind him.....yikes!!!

[TahitiNut]

13. Gun safety requires double and triple safeguards - multiple levels.

When human life is at risk, one level of safeguard or single points of responsibility just don't fly! The point is this - there's no question that hunters in a group must stay behind the (imaginary) safety line. but that's not sufficient! Every hunter must keep track of the postions of other hunters and never allow their aim to cross the postions of those hunters. But even if Whittington ran naked while singing "it's my birthday" into the field of fire, it does not make him "fair game"! The whole point of multiple levels of safety is to ensure that single failures don't result in injury or fatality. No person's mistake can be allowed to exonerate other errors - least of all the victim!

This is one of the problems with multilevel assurance controls in many critical operations - people get sloppy and let the safeguards erode, deceiving themselves with the "safe enough" delusion. This is why nuclear power plants are worrisome. This is why good commerical pilots are anal retentive about air safety - and why the back office corporatists ignore them until 200-400 people get killed.

No wrong makes the other wrong a 'right.'

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Simpson's trying to play it as if it were nothing more than a typical day

hunting in a field.

Bad move, ALan.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Jeezus, now Simpson saying this wasn't newsworthy.

I want some of what he's smoking.

[NightOwwl]

10. I thought he would never shut up.

For non-viewers:

Alan Simpson is blaming Whittington for the accident. I am not being sarcastic - he is going on and on about what a great shot Cheney is. Stating AS FACT that Whittington must have wandered into the path of the shooting. How the hell does he know what went on.

And so begins the RW Talking Points. Always blame the other guy. Ah well, that's par for the course for this administration.

[Wickerman]

11. The Democratic tact should now be to trash the Repugs who

blame the victim. They do this switcheroo all the time, and this time, as it is valid, we should do it back to them en mass.