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t1_j7mduf8 wrote

Cheney expected to attend funeral so Whittington an apologize one last time.

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t1_j7me2eg wrote

The best part was the apology he made for getting his face in front of Cheney’s shotgun blast.

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t1_j7mecwu wrote

I'll never get over the fact that Harry Whittington publicly apologized to Dick Cheney for getting shot in the face by Cheney.

Also, I've brought it up before on Reddit. But we've heard from Clinton, Bush and Obama about not having classified documents. We haven't heard from Cheney if he did a sweep. And the last mention of "classified documents" and "Cheney" was a story where he said his office would not comply with an executive order regarding them.

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t1_j7mipts wrote

Hate to be remembered as the guy who Dick shot in the *face

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t1_j7mk711 wrote

I guess Cheney wanted to wait for some time to pass before he finished the job. I started to write "had to wait", but then remembered he's Dick Cheney so probably he could have just finished him during the press conference when he was apologizing for getting shot in the face. Then his widow could have gone up and apologized to Cheney

Edit: grammar

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t1_j7mmsjn wrote

Replying to Bigwing2 (#1,747,658)

I have a weird respect for him - he’s a self preservationist and is only in support of his own agenda of self-enrichment (maybe family as well), he also doesn’t try to fake it or hide it.

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t1_j7mnkm8 wrote

Welp I'm sure he was more happy to have lived all the way past 2006

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t1_j7moxgk wrote

There was a good article years ago in the Washington Post Magazine about the incident. Despite much reporting about the two men being “friends” they had only met each other about two times prior to the shooting.

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t1_j7mqgbj wrote

Replying to BBTB2 (#1,747,905)

yeah, ideologically and as a human being i despise him (he was - at least before the current era of republican slapstick - a picture of everything wrong with american politics) but he was not a phony

it's funny to me that as overtly uncaring and self-serving as he was, he'd surely be considered a flower-child by today's conservative standards

and even though he'll likely get his prostate checked with a fireplace poker for all eternity, i do have a soft spot for mean old fuckers who just wont die

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t1_j7mqwqn wrote

Christ could they not stop the bleeding?

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t1_j7mxj18 wrote

Just two good ole boys out huntin' with women that weren't their wives and NO alcohol was around anywhere, according to the official account.

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t1_j7myh4l wrote

The techniques used to hunt a lot of birds makes friendly fire incidents more likely.

I am curious who was really at fault.

A light peppering from a distance of bird shot falling on you is the usual incident. Shot to the face, much more unlikely.

Someone out of position can easily get shot if people fire at motion....or accidentally shoot someone else.

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t1_j7n0mu5 wrote

Imagine this being your legacy. Ya know, rather than everything else you ever did in your life. Worse than getting shot in the face!

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t1_j7n4pv0 wrote

Replying to Drak_is_Right (#1,748,673)

I know very little about the incident, but to me since he apologized it means one of those three things:

  • he is just a extremely humble person
  • Chaney could f--- him up and he is just scared
  • he stood in wrong place or did something that was told not to do during training

Either could be possible (and could be even combination of all of them), but the last one seems like it is the most likely.

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t1_j7nefwp wrote

"The man who made the Republican Party the driving force in Texas it is today."

Sad to see someone dead, and much sympathy to his loved ones, but he did a lot of damage getting Texas so firmly under Republican thumbs that we will be dealing with for generations.

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t1_j7nf328 wrote

If the death is related to the shooting in any way he could be prosecuted.

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t1_j7nf7aa wrote

I remember misreading the article, and thinking the guy got shot 78-some-odd times, when that was just his age.

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t1_j7ng6dl wrote

Replying to CSI_Tech_Dept (#1,749,030)

From every thing I read about the story, the last one is correct. Although from the insipid memes, you might be tricked into thinking Cheney just decided to shoot a guy one day because he's evil.*

*which he is, but not because of this.

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t1_j7npywh wrote

I never really got the full story on this, but I do remember thinking there was more to the story, like maybe they were drunk or something? It’s been a while.

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t1_j7nserp wrote

Replying to tuxedo_jack (#1,748,544)

I remember where I was the day this happened. I was saying for the rest of the day that I couldn't wait for tonight's Daily Show/Colbert. Can't recall if it was that night or another where they discussed the details of the staged hunt. "Yes, Jon but traveling with all the security, doctors, cardiologist, that black ball Darth Vader sleeps in..."

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t1_j7nu9wo wrote

Replying to Asyncrosaurus (#1,749,690)

> Its not just reddit, it's all political discourse on the internet.

It's overwhelmingly prevalent on reddit though, the "X is literally Palpatine/Voldemort" meme has been associated with the redditor stereotype since like 2018.

> You forgot to include Harry potter.

Redditors have quieted down on the Harry Potter references recently, for reasons related to JK Rowling that you probably already know about.

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t1_j7o9z32 wrote

When I was in highschool I got a shirt with an artist's depiction of Cheney's face half blown off. I wish I still had it.

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t1_j7oae57 wrote

Replying to ironroad18 (#1,751,216)

I don't think Cheney sees Trump as evil - and I doubt he'd care if he did. He probably sees them as incompetent clowns who are fucking up his vision of a permanent (white male) American hegemony, which is why he has such disdain for them.

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t1_j7oc1pc wrote

So it took 17 years for the guy to die from the bullet wounds?!?!

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t1_j7oq57o wrote

Replying to Drak_is_Right (#1,748,673)

I haven’t hunted in a minute but one thing I remember is you don’t just fire at movement lol you always get a positive ID before shooting, lest the game warden pop you for killing something out of season or something you don’t have a tag for, or because it could be a FUCKING PERSON

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t1_j7owcw9 wrote

That diabolical bastard. He played the long game. Got him with that slow release lead poisoning.

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t1_j7ozfan wrote

Can you imagine this being your epitaph? Even almost 20 years later the most notable thing about you is that you got shot in the face and publicly apologized for doing so? You think someone is going to weave it into his eulogy? Please let that someone be Dick Cheney

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t1_j7p1fcw wrote

Replying to BBTB2 (#1,747,858)

Bush Sr, former CIA director and Nixon crony. He was assigned as Reagan's handler. Got a lot of cover from Bill Barr for Cold War shenanigans. Probably did all of the stuff that Reagan 'could not recall'.

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t1_j7pccma wrote

That was really rude of him to get shot in the face by Cheney. Does he know how much trouble he created for the vice president? At least he adequately apologized. /S

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t1_j7phsqu wrote

You mean to say that Cheney’s face-shot of Whillington finally had its intended affect years later ? It was said that Cheney after being informed of his passing, was overheard saying, well then, I’m taking back my apology. We’re still trying to get independent confirmation of this.

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t1_j7pn51i wrote

>the attorney was long known for helping build the Republican Party in Texas into the dominant political force it is today

So we have him to thank for Abbott and Cruz?

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t1_j7ppddc wrote

Replying to shewy92 (#1,753,503)

Because Cheney would not comply with an order while in office. And the post of about Cheney's infamous victim.

But I did look it up:

>Quayle confirmed to CNN that everything was turned over to the Archives, and sources familiar with the records of Cheney said he also turned everything over when he left the White House. A spokesperson for Gore said he and his staff turned everything over when leaving the White House and no classified material has been discovered since.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/archives-letter-former-presidents-vice-presidents-classified-documents/index.html

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t1_j7pqt2l wrote

Replying to rikki-tikki-deadly (#1,751,343)

Cheney is nothing if not organized, competent, and driven by a lust for power. He definitely doesn't care if Trump is evil, but likely recognized that a chaotic evil clown is a threat to order and the power structures he influences.

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t1_j7q7s1u wrote

Replying to Drak_is_Right (#1,748,673)

Allegedly Cheney was drunk when this all took place. I guess when the van these two were in pulled up to the shooting spot, beer cans spilled out onto the ground when the Secret Service opened the door. After the incident they had to hide Dick until he sobered up enough to speak to anyone.

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t1_j7r5g64 wrote

He Should have died when he got shot. I cant belive he actually apologized to dick. What a sniveling worm.

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t1_j7r6zud wrote

Replying to ReflexImprov (#1,751,701)

I find it to be grating. He seems frustrated that we haven't solved all of our problems despite the fact that that he's satirized them so skillfully. He comes across as an aging crank who is more than a little bitter.

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t1_j7t7bv2 wrote

I wonder if all the republicans calling for Alec Baldwin's head were just as angry with Cheney

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t1_j7wrt0z wrote

His family wishes to apologize to the former vice president for the inconvenience.

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