Cheney and friends shoot 417 pheasants on "canned hunt"

[mistertrickster]

"Upon his (Cheney's) arrival at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, gamekeepers released 500 pen-raised pheasants from nets for the benefit of him and his party. In a blaze of gunfire, the group—which included legendary Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with major fundraisers for Republican candidates—killed at least 417 of the birds. According to one gamekeeper who spoke to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cheney was credited with shooting more than 70 of the pen-reared fowl."

Read more at the link of The Humane Society of America--

http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/wayne_pacelle_the_animal_advocate/cheneys_canned_kill_and_other_hunting_excesses_of_the_bush_administration.html

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I'm a hunter myself, but shooting birds in a barrel is not my idea of any kind of sport. And taking hundreds of birds in one day is just sick . . .

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

1. Ya, Dick that's real fair.

Why doesn't he go bald eagle hunting to see how that would play in the press.

Good Lord, Cheney is a totally useless excuse for a human being...

[Erika]

11. Cheney is totally useless. He had "other priorities"

rather than going to Vietnam, and now he shoots tame birds.

[cantstandbush]

52. Wooohooo big, bad, brave, chickenhawk hunters!!!! n/t

[Bluebear]

2. What's next? Opening a zoo for him to go on a killing "safari"?

Disgraceful.

[doni_georgia]

10. I have images of the movie "Secondhand Lions" in my head

when they are aiming at the aged lion lying in the crate. Would love to hear what they did with the birds.

[MisterP]

25. I keep thinking of Goering in "The Man In the High Castle"

utterly dissolute, debased to the lowest level of humanity, Bob Hope joking he restored Christianity to have someone to feed to lions.
Just wait till you hear of the "Safari Club" (if you already haven't).

[kittenpants]

56. yeah, what a thrilling "sport" that must be. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. So what are they going to do with the birds?

[FloridaPat]

4. Yes - proud to be an american.

[Benhurst]

5. The old bastard ought to get a job as a butcher in a

chicken processing plant.

[Erika]

6. They raise the birds then flush them out?

and the "sportsmen" pepperspray them? How blanking sick.

[sam sarrha]

18. they usally clip their wings also.. and herd them with the SUV's

[sam sarrha]

19. how many people were out there shooting ..?? did they tie their legs up.??

[Erika]

21. That is so sick. n/t

[Ignacio Upton]

35. That's pretty fucked up

Also, it says that you, as a hunter, suck so bad that you need WINGLESS, and TRAPPED birds to shoot! Why not go for the "real thing" if youre going to hunt, and not shoot hundreds and abused birds?

[TheMightyFavog]

7. That is not hunting. That's killing. Plain and simple.

End of Line.

[occuserpens]

8. Looks a lot like Saddam

[barbaraann]

9. That is just sadistic.

n/t

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. Isn't that normal for this administration?

I am not really surprised since the current administration enjoys killing helpless people over in Iraq. Here in the USA they didn't mind watching thousands of people pleading for help from roof tops in the aftermath of Katrina. Hell, this is just par for the course for them. I guess that if an old attorney gets killed while the VP is shooting at some tame birds it's considered collateral damage.

Come on liberals, get a grip... if you want to enjoy your hunting experience it's obvious that you take an old lawyer along as target practice and get snot flinging drunk right befor the sun goes down and then try to hide out for as long as possible... What's the big f-ing deal?

:yoiks:

[otohara]

13. Who Goes Around Picking Up All These Bird Bodies?

and all the other stuff you do to the bodies in order to eat them? Can't imagine the veep and the senators do what real hunters do after their kill.

I can only imagine how many hired hands are at these "killing fields" to pick up the kill

I hope one of them chokes on a bone one of these days.

[SoCalDem]

14. They probably feed them to the "canned" lions & tigers

:(

[Warren Stupidity]

15. Until the animals are armed hunting will never be a 'sport'.

If both sides don't know the rules and if both sides don't know they are playing a game and if both sides don't start out on a level playing field, it ain't a sport.

[Gman]

16. No different than tying a deer to a tree

and letting someone walk up to it and shoot it.

[sam sarrha]

17. did he have the game bird stamps and is there any limit at all..??

[The Activist]

22. The VP is a Drunken Disgrace

Would you allow Cheney to drive a school bus full of kids to school? NOT ME!!!! SO how could WE THE PEOPLE have given him the power he now controls? Would you allow Cheney to be alone on a camping trip with your kids? NOT ME!!! He is a greedy corrupt old man and people are dying because of Ws and His incompetence....DKidd...

[Tsiyu]

42. Good questions

I agree with your post.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[sam sarrha]

he has had 2 DUI's, at least 2 honest cops sited him.. how many didnt ,

how many got torn up by high officials??

[appleannie1]

32. Yes, there are limits in PA

but that was a private club and the birds were drugged enough to make them sluggish. After the pheasants, they also shot tame mallards.

[Digit]

20. I am glad you brought this up as this has bothered me from the beginning

This was not "sport"....this was excessive and shooting from a CAR for crying out loud?

[Erika]

23. How can you pen raise birds, then time release them to fly

knowing they will be pepper sprayed by waiting "sportsmen" This is really sick.

[imperial jedi]

24. thats simply disgusting.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[FreedomAngel82]

26. So something strange with the Whittington deal if

Cheney is "such a good shot." Maybe he can only shoot things that don't fly or something. But the quails couldn't fly could they?

[Nothing Without Hope]

62. Whatever the truth may be, he's called "a good shot" because he's

being propagandized as an archetypal, symbolic figure, The Hunter, a stern, intimidating, figure who protects and provides for the weak. The strong, silent, get-it-done, don't-mess-with-me Marborough Man. It's deliberate. No kidding! This is propaganda and PR framing. Who knows or cares whether he is actually "a good shot."

Here are two threads that touch on the "archetype" issue, which also explains why Cheney was weakened more than one might think by the episode. He's so obviously NOT what he is portrayed to be:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x464667
thread title (2-19-06 GD): Jane Hamsher Explains the WIDER IMPORTANCE of the Cheney Shooting Story
Comment/excerpt: Very insightful analysis by Jane Hamsher of firedoglake. As Jane sees it, Fuddgate has weakened Cheney, and this has in turn lessened his clout in strong-arming Congressional members into toeing his line., at least for now. One major issue impacted by this, Jane believes, is the status of NSA investigation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x467252
thread title (2-19-06 GD): Why Cheney's hunting accident matters - By Stan Goff
Comment/excerpt: He perceives the way ARCHETYPES deliberately concocted by propaganda have been damaged by Fuddgate. Excerpt: “…This is the age of postmodern politics – the age of impression management. This is the time when the narrative is used to trump reality. No doubt perfidy has always characterized politics, but the good old days of no-bullshit thuggery and patrician patronage has given way to the construction of puerile caricatures. And many thought that Bush was the mediocre narcissist who liked to dress up in flight suits and caper across the decks of aircraft carriers. This incident exposes Cheney himself as just another costumed buffoon, and not the Darth Vader figure he and his desperately insecure admirers seemed to relish. … Dick Cheney has constructed himself as a hunter…consistent with his supposedly intimidating predator image. These are hegemonic masculinities, but only in the most theatrical sense. The cowboy and the hunter are idealized archetypes from a mythical past.

And here's a link to COMPILATION THREADS on the Cheney shooting/Fuddgate, one in the GD forum for discussion and one in the Research Forum for easy long-term updating. The video threads are organized at the end of the list:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3133
thread title (2-14-06 RESEARCH FORUM): Compilation of threads on 2/06 Cheney shooting incident, including videos

thread title (2-17-06 GD): COMPILATION OF CHENEY SHOOTING THREADS - with comments/excerpts:
Comment/excerpt: Repost of updated thread started in this forum Feb 14. At time of posting, it is identical to the version in the Research Forum.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Sick bastards! Well what else would one expect out those who

attack innocent people? Death means nothing to these non humans.

[Up2Late]

28. Again!?!? Shooting more "bird tards," as The Daily Show called them,

IS NOT SPORT! It's just sick, psychotic Killing!

And this is the same guy who ridiculed Senator John Kerry for his "New Goose Hunting Jacket!" What an Ass.

[JanusAscending]

29. Real brave souls .........

to go hunting with "ole buckshot" Vader!!!

[JohnLocke]

30. This is just as nauseating as cockfighting, bullfighting, and bearbaiting

[ClayZ]

31. HE is a psychopath.

I a child got pleasure from shooting birds, would you not take them to the psychiatrist. Why is it different for a grown man?

I understand honorable hunting. That is not what Cheney does.


Why do we allow these sick _____ to run our country?

Why is this not cruelty to animals and a felony?

[fknobbit]

33. Oh God

Say it ain't true Roger.

[norml]

34. Today pheasant shooting.

Tomorrow peasant shooting.

[Raine]

36. GAWD...

didn't he learn his lesson yet about carrying guns!!!!! :mad:

[OneBlueSky]

37. the man is sick, sick, sick . . . as in mentally ill . . .

he shouldn't be vice president of a local school board, much less the most powerful nation on earth . . .

[Nothing Without Hope]

38. ***Some related threads from the Cheney shooting/Fuddgate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x395842
thread title (2-0-06 GD): There's something wrong w/ Cheney -- killed 70 TAME birds in one trip
Comment/excerpt: The poster notes “In one incident that received some press coverage, Cheney and his pals had 500 farm raised pheasants -- that is, birds that had lost their fear of people -- released before them. The party killed 417 birds in one day, with Cheney bagging 70 of the tamed animals himself. This is not hunting. This is slaughter. This represents the same mental illness that caused W to kill small animals as a child. Isn't wanton killing of small animals by children a sign of mental illness and a marker for violent criminal behavior in the adult?”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2104268
thread title (2-12-06 LBN): Humane Society statement on Cheney's accident

many more theads with links and excerpts/comments, including VIDEOS, in COMPILATION ON FUDDGATE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=358x3133
thread title (2-14-06 RESEARCH FORUM): Compilation of threads on 2/06 Cheney shooting incident, including videos

[mistertrickster]

50. Thanks, NWHope, I didn't think I was the first one with this post.

I've never posted anything first since I started hanging out here years ago.

Lots of news junkies out there, heh . . .

[Nothing Without Hope]

61. Yeah, "news junkies" is about right. I posted those threads here to

give a route to other discussion threads for those who weren't aware of them, and there will be a lot of those. Many people actually have lives and only check DU occasionally. I meant nothing negative about your posting on this, and the good response of readers to your thread shows that a lot of people benefitted from it. :thumbsup:

[rucky]

39. It's amazing he's able to get over the "trauma" so quickly.

I know if I shot someone, I wouldn't ever touch a gun again.

[Peter Frank]

40. I can here Ted Nugent recording the new promo for his canned hunts...

"fat Cat scratch fever..." ;)

[nonconformist]

41. This is truly sick. nt

[nicknameless]

43. FWIW, the story looks to be from 2003.

These guys are fake hunters.
They're fake patriots.
They're fake Christians.

Their lives revolve around conning, stealing and killing.

[NuttyFluffers]

44. well, if it's 500 birds and cheney inside a closet, maybe it's sporting

do they lock them in a walk-in closet with only nail files and the 500 birds? :shrug: well, we can dream they do, right? :evilgrin:

otherwise i don't see the point of this "hunting." might as well go to a slaughterhouse and sit under the ground meat extruder. the steady rain of gore is the same. i wonder what they do for an encore, murder hookers and eat their livers? :shrug:

[moondust]

45. Bazookas? Claymore mines?

For that many wild and crazy birds a real sportsman needs firepower by god a'mighty!!!

It's not the hunting but the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...the killing...

[raggedcompany]

46. killiing is "sport" for conservatives. no shock there.

psychopaths.

[Joe Fields]

47. It's how Cheney salves his "guilt" for all those deferrments.

[City Lights]

64. I also thought of his deferments when I read this.

Unfortunately, I don't think he's capable of feeling guilt.

[leftyladyfrommo]

48. Can't they just do skeet shooting?

Would make a lot more sense.

This kind of hunting is just mindless slaughter.

[AndyA]

49. Disgraceful and disgusting

What a waste of humanity.

I only hope all those birds are waiting for him at the Pearly Gates of Heaven. Then they'll have the opportunity to even the score before he's sent to Hell. But Satan probably doesn't even want him - George will have had enough of him at that point! :rofl:

[Gregorian]

51. AND ONE LAWYER.

Don't forget that one in the tally.

Actually, I would expect no less of dick. They don't call him a chickenhawk for nothing. Killing is for fun. But only if from the safety of a caged hunt, or the White House. Why else would he get a deferrment. Obviously, he wasn't a Consciencious Objector.

[Jose Diablo]

53. 417 Pheasants and one Lawyer

not bad, old dead-eye Dick is living-up to his name.

[FlaGranny]

54. Agree with everyone

that canned "hunting" is sick. No sport. No real hunting. Just killing.

[Lefty48197]

55. BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

Harry...? HARRY...?

[porkrind]

57. Slaughtering animals for fun?

This is definitely pathological behavior. Anyone who gets their thrills by mass killing of animals needs to be behind bars, not ruling the country. This is disgusting.

[glitch]

58. Google Bush Schwarzkopf canned hunt Africa

if you want to get really sick.

[kayice]

59. How can that be any sport?

What do they do with the birds? Toss the birds in the trash? No one wonder the dumbass shot someone, he is used to firing like a lunatic with the pen-raised quanity of birds......while the freakin' medical team, at taxpayer's expense, stands by.

[spanone]

60. Real he-men....These are people who have lost touch with humanity.

Power and money corrupt the mind and these people were challenged before they were rich or powerful. What Men! What Assholes!

[Dr Fate]

63. Now he has "graduated" to human faces. n/t

n/t

[Jon8503]

65. So sick. They talked about this guy being a great shot. This is

not hunting. Who could'nt hunt when they let your prey loose right in front of you. They don't stand a chance and the VP calls himself a hunter.

This is the great white hunter who was afraid to go to Viet Nam.

What an administration we have.

[flyarm]

66. next trip for Cheney ..perdue farms ..chicken hunting.. my

hubby a hunter.. just said that..he said its like letting Cheney into a chicken pen and shooting 70 chickens..hubby said ..same thing!!

fly

[DBoon]

67. They should do like the fabulous furry freak brothers

and dispatch the birds humanely with an overdose of seconal

[fob]

68. Well I'll be. This apparently wasn't at the Armstrong Ranch, but ann

armstrong called in to the Will and Willie show here in the SF/Oakland Bay Area a week or so back and proclaimed that THEY "never shoot more than 3 birds from a covey". Sounds like dick*head doesn't necessarily subscribe to their brand of "conservatism". Color me fucking surprised.

[Shizaad]

69. Sicko Cheney n/t

[Shizaad]

70. Cheney deserves to be devoured in a chicken farm

Tie him down and let thousands of hungry chickens eat him.