2nd Blog-Never Trust a VP with a Gun

Having lived in South Texas for my entire life, I can honestly call "BS" to the story put out by the White House regarding the shooting at the Armstrong Ranch. Dick Cheney must be blind if he's shooting off his gun with a human being in his sights. That or he thinks that Texas quail wear hunter orange vests. That, or he doesn't know how to shoot a gun. Damn, to think that I, a pacifist, know more about handling loaded firearms than the VP of the US who is supposedly out "hunting." OR, as I have heard some postulate, he was drunk, had a heart attack, whatever. Firing off his gun when a member of his hunting party was still in the field & unaccounted for was a NO-NO. (ah the things we learn from our fathers who hunted) First we heard that the VP's own ambulance was used to take Mr. Whittingdon to the hospital in Kingsville. Oh no, says local law enforcement, we first heard about the shooting when an ambulance was sent there. (If an ambulance was already at the scene, why the call for back-up?) The next lie the White House would have you believe is that local law enforcement got to speak to Cheney before he left. Not so, says the sheriff, who should know this. His officers were not allowed to interview Cheney at all. I find it absolutely amazing that they waited 24 hours to break this to the media & decided that Mrs. Armstrong (a Republican crony, as interestingly enough is Whittingdon) would do this. Which she did by waiting 24 hours (I suppose so they could get their stories straight) & contacting a rookie reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, who merely transcribed what was written & then didn't go about doing reporter-ly things, like say, oh I might be pulling this out of thin air, calling the sheriff in Kleberg County to see if a report had been made & speaking with others who might have been there. I'm not so sure about this checking up on sources, since I only had 2 semesters of journalism.