Dick chaney shooting accident

Description:While politically motivated rants and bad jokes about the shooting of Harry Whittington spread like wildfire through office corridors and around the Web, the 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. Cheney issued a brief written statement saying that he "stood ready to assist" and that "his thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Whittington and his family," but the lack of any public comment from the vice president on the incident itself has only fueled questions and theories about what actually happened at Katharine Armstrong's 50,acre spread. The dustup over the accident and when it was made public "is part of the secretive nature of this administration," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. CT and stepped out of the hunting line he was sharing with Cheney at Armstrong's ranch south of Corpus Christi.

Views: 8348 Date: 2018-06-19 Favorited: 49