Dead-Eye Dick Cheney in Dixie-flag flap

[malaise]

Well he didn't shoot anyone this time but he shot himself in the foot.





http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302007/news/nationalnews/v_p_s_hunting_gear.htm

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I am calling on Vice President Cheney to . . . denounce the club and apol ogize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people," the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement.

"In this age of Jena and hangmen nooses all over the country, for the vice president to relax under the flag of the hangmen nooses is an unpardonable insult to all Americans, particularly blacks."

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In a phone interview today, Mr. Sharpton elaborated a bit further. He expressed incredulity that Mr. Cheney’s security detail would not have noticed — or been bothered by — the presence of the flag. “It is hard to believe, with a security team and detail searching everywhere the vice president goes in advance, that he would not want to know how this was there or how the security team could not have seen this as inappropriate and insulting,” he said, adding, “You either have security incompetence or security insensitivity.”

Mr. Sharpton said it was not enough for Mr. Cheney’s staff to say the vice president had not seen the flag. “He should disavow the flag and the location,” Mr. Sharpton said, referring to the country club. “Americans need to know where he stands on this.”

The vice president made a daylong hunting trip on Monday to the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club, an exclusive mountainside establishment on 4,000 acres in Union Vale, N.Y., about 15 miles east of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County. Only members and their guests may hunt on the property; an annual membership is said to cost tens of thousands of dollars.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/cheneys-staff-says-he-never-saw-confederate-flag/?hp

[bluerum]

1. The confederate flag is NOT a common sight in NY state. Anyone who flies

it in that part of the country is making a statement.

[Ian David]

2. The flag is in the groundskeeper's office. Geesh.