Look Who's Guarding the Hen House
Here's a man who gets to decide how natural resources of this country are used. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Here is shock and awe, up close and vice presidential.
Dec 10, 2003 3:36 pm US/Eastern Pittsburgh (KDKA)Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting trip to Westmoreland County this week is drawing criticism.
Cheney arrived at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe on Monday to do some hunting at the Rolling Rock Club and Game Preserve -- a private club with farm-raised pheasants; but some say it was no hunt -- it was a slaughter.
"Your average hunter may shoot more than three pheasants a day; Vice President Cheney shot more than 70 -- and an untold number of mallards... We're appalled that so many animals were killed for target practice essentially."-- Wayne Pacelle, V.P.- Humane Society of the US
Five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants.
The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC.
Comments
Utterly and unforgivably disgusting.
Posted by: ntexas99 | December 14, 2003 11:44 PM
Shoot, that's nuthin'. You should see what W. can do with a cluster bomb.
While many of the folks who voted for this guy decry violence on our TVs and in movies, their man finds entertainment in the real slaughter of innocent life. I wonder what it does for him? What a wonderful form of re-creation(sic).
Posted by: Drew | December 15, 2003 7:43 AM
Such news triggers the gag reflex, doesn't it?
Posted by: Cop Car | December 15, 2003 7:50 AM
What an pathetic idiot. Any dumbass can point a gun--that's no sport. Maybe he'll get "Mad Pheasant Disease."
Posted by: teresa | December 15, 2003 1:26 PM
Aren't there state bag limits??
Posted by: Jane | December 16, 2003 9:54 AM