"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

.....how can the thought of cover up NOT occur?

I think there's a difference between not reporting it (not a coverup)
than hiding the fact (cover up).

Fine line......at best. The first step in hiding anything is not reporting
it, ainna?

If one can believe what one hears on the tv news, i heard one report
yesterday where it said the guy who was shot came up behind the VP and
didn't let him know he was there, essentially assigning blame to the
victim. (and this wasn't Fox either)

Well, I don't know all the details.....and none of us ever will. That said,
the phrase "blaming the victim" smells strongly of the supposition that
victims never share in the responsibility for what happens to them. This is
patently absurd.

Cheney obviously screwed up, he had the gun, took the shot and didn't
ensure there was no one in the path.

Cheney PROBABLY screwed up with regard to the shooting. This is generally
the case in such situations, but it is by no means impossible for someone to
get shot without the shooter having done anything stupid.

Send him back to a basic hunter
safety class but I'm not sure I would issue a press release saying I
did something stupid either.

You aren't the vice president of the United States. Cheney DID screw up in
not making the matter public immediately.

What concerns me more than the lack of an announcement, is at least one
major newspaper is quoting an animal hack calling hunting wrong. I
fear the conversation will mover more this way than the VP forgetting
the basic safety rules of hunting.

No surprise there. I don't expect people to refrain from commenting on
issues that concern them. Animal rights activists would be idiots to pass
on an opportunity like this.

Wolfgang