Vice President Dick Cheney was on a run-of-the-mill hunting trip with friends…lets revisit this for a minute………lol

Vice President Dick Cheney was on a run-of-the-mill hunting trip with friends when everything went horribly awry. In the late afternoon, perhaps after downing a beer or two, he whirled around to fire on quail that had been flushed out of the underbrush. Unfortunately, one of his hunting partners, 78-year-old Harry Whittington, was caught in the crossfire. Whittington was riddled with as many as 200 pellets in his torso and face, but survived the incident. The embarrassing fiasco became a running joke for comedians; The Daily Show cracked, "Cheney's Got a Gun."

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