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John1956PA

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35. +100. Over eleven years ago, here in Western PA, Cheney slaughtered dozens of fowl.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jul 2015
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Dick-Cheney-Kills-Birds-Dead-The-manly-veep-has-2808606.php

Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter, and we are so impressed

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Published 4:00 am, Friday, January 23, 2004

So then about a month ago the vice president of these beautiful and deeply confused United States, he of the struggling defibrillator and the shockingly nefarious wife and the gnarled calluses from working Dubya's puppet strings, he of the thin-lipped sneer that makes babies cry and women wince and foreign policies crumble like feta cheese in the freezer, well, Dick goes himself a-huntin

Not just any ol' regular, camouflage-wearing, man-versus-nature hunt out in the wild, mind. Dick is far too fragile and unskilled and spoiled and scared of the open woods and icky furry monsters for that. Assumedly.
Nossir, our man Dick, he has himself flown over, in Air Force 2, on the taxpayer's tab, accompanied by his most favoritest shotgun, to the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, in rural Pennsylvania, to have himself a nice, cushy "canned" pheasant hunt.

This is what it was: Dick and about nine other overfed white guys sitting in a comfy luxury blind with their manly shotguns, waiting for the Westmoreland guy stationed behind them on a hill to release clusters of stunned, fat, tame game birds from a net. Then they shoot them.

. . .


It was never clearly reported what happened to the slaughtered birds. The above article suggests that they were gutted, de-feathered, cleaned and vacuum packed. I suspect otherwise. I think they were thrown in a ditch and covered over with dirt. No spokesperson from the club ever made a detailed statement. As I recall, the one worker who spoke up in the first instance never made a follow-up statement.

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+100. Over eleven years ago, here in Western PA, Cheney slaughtered dozens of fowl. John1956PA Jul 2015 #35
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