msnbc.com top story: Gunshot Echoes

[montana500]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11340558/


"The political echoes from a single shotgun blast on the Texas prairie continued to reverberate across the nation Tuesday, growing especially loud in the nation's capital as journalists scrambled to piece together the full story behind Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental Saturday shooting of a hunting companion.

While politically motivated rants and bad jokes about the shooting of Harry Whittington spread like wildfire through office corridors and around the Web, the 78-year-old lawyer suffered "a silent heart attack," which doctors blamed on birdshot from Cheney's errant blast that had moved into or was touching his heart.

Whittington was immediately moved back to the intensive care unit for further treatment at a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital, and the vice president, lauded and pilloried as the unflappable fix-it man of the Bush adminstration, once again moved into the white-hot spotlight of controversy."

[lonestarnot]

1. Stepp'n down yet DICK?

[txindy]

7. Personally, I think Duck ought to come on back here for a visit very soon.

He's got police reports to fill out. A district attorney to meet with, too, probably. Lots of Texas hunters to answer to, as well. They're not impressed by Cut and Run Darth.

[lonestarnot]

8. Give em hell hanna!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. This was truly a shot that was

heard round the world.... something I remember from history class.... :)

[davikim]

3. It actually asks

who was at fault?
Boy, these are tought questions, sheesh......

[unblock]

4. "minor" heart attack. f*ckin' msm! what heart attack is "minor"? he's 78!

[roseBudd]

5. Click through & vote it up it's being freeped

[Coexist]

6. That photo is truly worth a thousand words.

Very cool.