An observation: I think the TV Freepers that watch Faux are pissed

[Ilsa]

about this Cheney story. They feel like he was being irresponsible in not appropriately letting the WH and WH press corps know what was happening. They are mad about what they perceive to be a "secretive" administration. The reason I say this is that Faux apparently is getting tons of email from their regular viewers that reflects how angry they are.

[Skittles]

1. oh I see

so.....starting illegal wars, performing warrentless wiretaps, outing CIA agents, ordering his Chief of Staff to release classified information - just A-OK......but a delay in news about a hunting accident is what gets their panties all in a wad. They really are fucked up, aren't they ???

[Ilsa]

3. Yeah, that pretty well sums up how they feel about Cheney's

screw-up of this. No sense of priorities.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. I agree, but WHATEVER starts waking any of these zombiez up, Skittles.

It's interesting... actually a good proportion of the people I work with are bird hunters, many who go to S. Texas to do so (not on any Armstrong ranch though). I haven't been around to hear what they have to say.

[Skittles]

15. I guess what kills me is

Cheney truly is one evil SOB - all those other moves are calulated and pure evil - yet this incident, which I truly believe was an ACCIDENT - that's the one he gets grilled for.....it is indeed a strange world

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. It could be their last straw

I've long harbored the idea that the majority of FReepers can't be as ignorant as they seem. All jokes aside, it would mean they almost literally lack the capacity to think for themselves, and there just can't be that many people with such immature minds.

So I'm thinking maybe a lot of them have been subtly questioning the war, Medicare, Katrina, domestic spying, etc. etc. etc. all along, and here comes this relatively small thing — that can't be spun (unless you go with the weak-assed "Whittington shouldn't have been behind him") — and it's like pulling the linchpin.

Just a thought.

[Kierkegaard]

2. Welcome to dimension 'X'

where starting wars for profit and Constitutional breaches are OK, but a hunting accident is a world changing event. Go figure.

[swimboy]

4. True

It's mighty fucked up, but you know what? I'll take it!

[Kierkegaard]

9. Me too.

Anything that will help remove the malignant malcontents from our Government, no matter how stupid or petty, is A-OK by me.

[jedicord]

11. God 'n Guns - the red states in a nutshell.

That's what matters to them, and Cheney just committed a major sin.

[Kierkegaard]

12. Imagine if he had accidentally shot God...

Boy, would he have some splainin' to do.

[libhill]

17. Yeah

don't done reckon that Jaysus never shot nobody in the face, accidental like, er not - Lawd Jaysus don't like a feller tain't carfull wit' his fire arms.

[NanceGreggs]

5. I've always figured that the FAUX-watchin' crowd ...

... for the most part, hate Cheney as much as we do. It makes it easier to keep supporting Bushie, if they hear stories about torture, secret prisons, money laundering, etc., and they can chalk it up to Cheney's evil influence over their Christian, family-values leader.

Oh, the irony! This story could turn the RW publicly against Cheney - an arrogant, irresponsible bastard who has had undue influence over their precious president, and has TO GO!

And once they turn, they'll turn with a vengeance: "It was Cheney who talked Bush into torture. It was Cheney who insisted on domestic surveillance. It was Cheney who lied about the lead-up to the war in Iraq."

And if the 'other woman' aspect of this story gets legs (which I think it will), THEY'LL REALLY GO NUTS!

[Hobarticus]

7. When the right-wing machine has gone to such great lengths to show that

the "grown-ups in charge" (Cheney's own words) are really just one of the simple folks, and then they demonstrate that they really AREN'T one of the simple folk by interfering with an investigation into an accident and flaunting the law in ways that simple folks can't...well, there's hell to pay.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. What's the reporter that replaced Jeff Gannon with the softball questions

at the White House press corps? I can't think of his name now but yesterday he was very upset (or seemed to be) and asked Scotty why the local CC paper broke the story but the AP didn't pick it up?

[melody]

10. Their unconditional love extends only to the Shrub apparently

Only he is all-knowing, all-seeing and the uberidiot of their electronic village. Cheney went against the glorious wisdom of the uberidiot and didn't divulge unto him, therefore he must be smitten.

[DenaliDemocrat]

13. I hang out on some hunting bulletin boards as well as DU

and a lot of those guys are right wingers, some are die hards. The outrage is substantial. The hunters see this as totally irresponsible and hurting their hobby and gun rights. The angst against Cheney is probably 4 to 1 against.

[LittleClarkie]

16. Where did you hear that?

Interesting.

[Appalachian_American]

18. That must be why Cheney is now "praying" for his victim.

I read that headline at cnn about an hour ago.