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Dick Cheney's Sadistic Passion for Shooting Tame Animals (AlterNet)

alternet.org — Birds raised for canned hunts at gun clubs and in state "recreational" areas are grown in packed pens -- think factory farmed chickens -- and fitted with goggles so they won't peck each other to death from the crowding. When released for put and take hunters like Cheney, pen raised birds can barely walk or fly.

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  • pdsoul, on 11/15/2007, -9/+35I say impeach the *****! Link didn't load though :(
    • affanjam, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3ok digg...went out for a while and came back with no Picture section...
      • hittnrun, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1It was Cheney!!! Run to the caves!!!!
    • Nerfdude, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!
    • Frostman3D, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4Impeach him for shooting birds?
    • davewashere, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2These are just primal urges, not an impeachable offense. I heard that after he kills the birds, he jerks off on their dead bodies, just like our cavemen ancestors used to do.
    • GOPin2008, on 12/31/2007, -0/+0go ahead and check out my comment about this. i think youll like it
  • VIrus9, on 11/15/2007, -6/+134Calling Cheney a hunter is like calling a pet store clerk a zoo-keeper.
    • Dumbledorito, on 11/15/2007, -2/+50Or someone who picks his meal out of a lobster-tank a sport fisherman.
      • snugglebear, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2Dude, don't disrespect those lobster tanks.

        They're seriously freaky to stick your hands in.
    • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -2/+35As an avid hunter, I'm ashamed to be lumped in with the likes of him. Rich assholes who take joy in slaughtering farm-raised animals are despicable.
      • Smaulz, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't hunting something that can kill you back... what's the point? Naw, I shouldn't say that. I enjoy venison as much as the next guy.
        • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -2/+9Venison is also MUCH better for you than beef. Lower fat %, lower cholesterol, no synthetic hormones, and it's guaranteed to be "free range" and "organic". Unless you choose to hunt penned-in and corralled animals like Mr. Cheney.
          • LordVance, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5I have to agree with this guy; personally I never got into hunting much (I can't stand sitting in a tree for hours on end). However, my father has hunted and fished all my life; beef simply can not compare to the quality of venison. Venison tenderloin and eggs is one of my favorite breakfast meals of all time. (my father is a butcher by trade, and we live in New Jersey which has a very long extended bow season, so we stock up and deep freeze quite a bit of venison each year). If you can get your hands on a meat grinder, venison burgers are delicious as well :-)
          • nastajus, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2guaranteed unless. Hmm.
        • LordVance, on 11/15/2007, -4/+4The same reason many enjoy activities that are not defined by your opposition, but by the personal skill involved. It may sound easy to sit in a tree and wait for a deer to come by; however, there is a lot more involved in bagging large game than simply wait, point, shoot.
    • krakkinem, on 11/15/2007, -2/+29Or like calling George W. Bush a president.
      • GOPin2008, on 12/31/2007, -1/+0Well he voted in the first time through the electoral college (which is in the constitution and can be changed by an amendment) and 3 other presidential elections were decided in that way. The second time he was elected by the popular vote. Congress has the power to impeach a president. so either vote, write your congressperson, or take a middle school level civics class...

        since were going this way

        Or like calling krakkinem a human

        go ahead and look at my other comment for this article. its got some facts i think youll enjoy

        • krakkinem, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I am a human, thank you very much. Sad that someone not liking Bush can so quickly dehumanize them in your eyes.

          Please vote for the right guy this November since you obviously haven't before.
    • Nerfdude, on 11/15/2007, -3/+5or calling blasting somebody in the face "The Dick Cheney".
      well, i call it that
      • GOPin2008, on 12/31/2007, -1/+0Or calling alcoholics "A Kennedy"
        Or calling someone who kills someone drunk driving a "Ted Kennedy"
    • rz8472, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Karl Rove literally shoots doves. I wonder if there's a subtle political jab there... as in peace ain't worth a damn and we might as well invade Iran now.
  • mightydavefish, on 11/15/2007, -8/+71Coward runs so deeply with these losers they can't give even animals a fair chance.
    The sick part is they ENJOY doing this. Shooting fish in a barrel? Right wing neocon funtime extravaganza!
    What kind of cowardly ***** enjoys killing helpless things?
    • frozenpxl, on 11/15/2007, -3/+10George W. Bush.
    • Rambeezle, on 11/15/2007, -14/+9If you eat meat you are sponsoring the murder of helpless, domesticated animals.
      • feckineejit, on 11/15/2007, -2/+12if you hunt tame cage raised pheasant you AREN'T planning on eating them all.
    • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -13/+4This one time, there was an ant walking around in my basement...I totally stomped on it!
      Man I am such a cowardly *****.
    • Qeveren, on 11/15/2007, -3/+8I think it's called 'psychopathy'.
    • hellokittyownsu, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1I think the animals have a fair chance it's his buddies I am worried about.
    • rz8472, on 11/15/2007, -2/+3Can't even hunt correctly. Certainly his armchair quarterbacking is worse; losing real soldiers in war is like losing marines in Starcraft to the neocons. All you need is 50 minerals to train another one!
    • Elranzer, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1It makes them (neocons) feel big because were they to hunt under real conditions, the deer and bears would kick their ass. No contest.
    • GOPin2008, on 12/31/2007, -0/+0go ahead and check my comment to this article. its got some facts i think youll enjoy
  • kbedell, on 11/15/2007, -2/+52The article says he shot like 70 birds in one trip in 2003. I mean - that's a lot of pheasants. Blasting 70 birds who can't fly or run well -- that seems like all you'd do is just sit and blast birds. Maybe I don't get how this is a 'sport'.
  • SpeakerCity, on 11/15/2007, -13/+87I advocate and support the assassination of Dick Cheney.
    • aliengoods, on 11/15/2007, -5/+72Warning to all Digg users: Digging the parent comment may result in your imprisonment and torture.

      This message brought to you by Dick Cheney's America.
      • craprock, on 11/15/2007, -1/+39What if I don't like Dick Cheney's Ameri
      • berb, on 11/15/2007, -2/+26Obviously it was intended as a joke, but assassination threats have never been considered as "free speech", nor should they be. Perhaps I'm reading too deeply into this, but I would personally refrain from wishing/supporting/advocating the death of a high up U.S. politician lest you want to be gangbanged by a SWAT team in the middle of the night.
      • soot, on 11/15/2007, -2/+14Haha, I'd like to see them go ahe
    • Divals, on 11/15/2007, -5/+19I do as well. He's a menace to society, and even when he's no longer VP he'll still be ruining the country.
    • SiNN4R, on 11/15/2007, -0/+15Hello federal agents.
    • frozenpxl, on 11/15/2007, -2/+10Congratulations, you've just been ***** up the ass by The Patriot Act.
    • regression, on 11/15/2007, -5/+1and in 3...2...1...party van arrives with support by blackwater...
    • omgTHEPATRIOTS, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7now here's a guy who's already given up impeachment. i kind of fear for society seeing things like this, but the truth is that cheney has absolutely destroyed this country. there's alot of pissed off people here, which i completely understand and think is appropriate too. what i fear too is that this country has been so weakened that we don't even have the ability to prosecute this man because he has completely gutted every part of this country from head to toe, and privatized it by selling it out to corporate america, which is now collapsing and due for a severe economic downturn in the near future.

      so in total, i can understand why most people think this is an acceptaible option. i really don't think this country as it is currently known will even survive what Cheney and Bush have done. Rewriting intelligence to lie us into one war and try to lie us into a second? anybody who's paying attention knows this, and that his continued freedom means he is a direct representative of all that is destroying this country and what is evil. i think it would be more appropriate to lock him in an insane asylum, personally.
    • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -5/+5Because assassinating humans is so much better than hunting birds.
      • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1it is a lot more fun to watch...
        • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3and i seriously doubt he is a human....
        • chijim70, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2What is it that conspiracy says he is? Some type of lizard man. lol
          I gotta admit I wouldn't be completely surprised. I'm no advocate of killing though. Almost seems to easy a way out for the likes of him. Locked up and treated as he thinks it's ok to treat "detainees" would be more what I'd like to see.
    • GOPin2008, on 12/31/2007, -0/+0go ahead and check my comment to this. i have some facts that might rock your world
  • 4Paws, on 11/15/2007, -12/+19***** scum piece of ***** Cheney.

    I love animals so much. )':
  • principle, on 11/15/2007, -4/+38Bush, Cheney, and the gang are the type of people who love to see others bleed. They don’t loose any sleep over misery they bring, and are proud to show off their pathological problems.
    • Zalyster, on 11/15/2007, -6/+3That's a bit harsh, don't you think? I mean, I don't think they'd actually take pleasure in seeing people bleed to death, or not care about people dieing. I think that if someone is not doing a very good job at what they do, it's not because they don't care or they like seeing people suffer, it's just that they happen to be bad at what they do.
      That's my opinion at least.

      By the way, I'm not a Bush/Cheney fanboy or anything, just trying to give the other side an argument.
      • dafragsta, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5You sir, are far too optimistic in the face of overwhelming evidence of evil-doing. This guy worked for Haliburton and is receiving deferred payment for services rendered just before he became vice president. While I'm not saying that that deferred payment will balloon on the books, it will most certainly balloon in a numbered swiss bank account. Oh, and by the way, Haliburton, the company who is getting a substantial portion of every penny we pay in taxes, is moving to Dubai. That's right. The rich are stealing from the poor in tax dollars, and taking those ***** dollars right the ***** out of our economy. Where does the money come from? From a ***** central bank who miracles it into existence for the sole purpose of paying the vice president's buddies. We are spending more than we have, and we are being double taxed by inflation, which is what happens when your dollar isn't worth ***** because it's created out of thin air and the companies you buy stuff from have to buy resources from other countries.

        This guy endorses torture, he pretends to be his own branch of government, and he's claimed the reigns of more power than any vice president in US history. He shot a guy in the face, and then THAT GUY apologized to him and his family.
      • yfguitarist, on 11/15/2007, -3/+2You getting buried is what happens when you try to provide the other side of a political argument on digg. No one wants to hear the other side, regardless of how open-minded we claim to be.
        • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -2/+2buried.
          (need a tag?)
        • chijim70, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1True lots of times but in this case I think it's just purely that we do hate Cheney that much. Either he is truly evil and fine with it or insane. It's just not logically possible for him to be sane and not realize how evil he is.
  • OffPiste, on 11/15/2007, -38/+3I'd vote for him again given the chance.
    • ichbinladen, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7I'd vote for you to... to have you fed to hungry lions.
    • GeneralJoey, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4Did you just come out of a 7 year coma? If not then please explain why you would want a person that corrupts intelligence to mislead a whole country into a war that isn't necessary, costing tax payers 800 billion dollars that could be used to fund education. Just so he can get a bigger reward from Halliburton when he leaves office, since he was CEO of that company before he took office. It is totally obvious that this administration is corrupt when Halliburton received all of the contracts to rebuild Iraq.
    • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1Can we assassinate you?
    • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1you are on my black list. just wait for the day my mind blows away and i start shooting people on the nutts.
  • ettin, on 11/15/2007, -3/+27I wonder if cheney knows he's evil.
    • siszam, on 11/15/2007, -2/+10I'm sure he knowingly gave his soul to the devil. He not only knows but he's probably very proud of being evil.
    • lhbaker, on 11/15/2007, -2/+15For all the talk about God and Bush's pandering to the Christian right, I suspect that neither Bush nor Cheney believes in any God other than the god of power. Bush is practically begging to have other human beings tortured. Cheney still lies knowingly, trying to decieve people into supporting the war. Cheney alone makes be believe in evil, but the things they've done together have caused many people to doubt God.
      • Shaman666, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5Like Christians are any better. Please research the history of the Catholics, as a prime example.
        • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Yeah, Catholics did a bunch of stuff saying it was Gods will, when actually it had very little to do with God...Whats your point?
      • Fieri, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Christians are better. Kings who create an entire infrastructure with taxes, armies, and torture squads and then calls themselves "popes" and "bishops" are not.
    • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1SUCK SATAN'S *****!
      • Observant1, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1daaayum, I didnt want to know the details about youre personal relationship with cheney
  • aldenhg, on 11/15/2007, -1/+29Guys, don't worry. Cheney 2.0 will be out in a few months and there will be HUGE improvements. He'll have a new coolant pump design (no more "heart attacks"), a solid state drive, desktop search, neat cold-cathode lights that light up whenever he ingests the blood of a fawn, an increased and unlocked FSCB (that front-side crazy bus for you n00bs) of 1.33 gigadahmers, laser eyes, a new 3D window manager and the ability to go on real hunting trips. Against dinosaurs.
    • bonds, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Hold out for the first service pack.
    • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2Hope it's still running Windows, at least then we can hope for a BSOD
  • siszam, on 11/15/2007, -7/+35Vote for Kucinich. He's the only one with the guts to try to impeach Cheney.
    • chix0r, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2And coincidentally, a vegan as well. :)
    • barnett25, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2Only because he wanted the publicity.
      Vote Ron Paul because he is honest.
      • chijim70, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Kinda stupid comment considering Ron and Kucinich are friends. Not even (I respect the other guy etc.) kind of or professional bs... but both have said they are actual friends. My dream ticket would be both together with either as vice pres. They have both said they would consider it too.
  • iceman0113, on 11/15/2007, -2/+22FTA: " They don't know how to forage or hide in the wild and sometimes have to be kicked to "fly" enough to be shot. Some hunters say shooting the pellet-ready tame animals, which offer no resistance, is like having sex with a blow-up doll. "

    Pathetic. Reminds me of the question, "Would you punch a baby in the face for a million dollars?" Except in this case, Cheney would do it for free. This is not a sport, killing defenseless 70 birds is in no way a sport, it is a massacre.
    • nastajus, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1I like this usage of the word.
    • wyrdness, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3"Some hunters say shooting the pellet-ready tame animals, which offer no resistance, is like having sex with a blow-up doll."

      Cheney probably does that too.
      • MorbenDK, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1so thats why he shot that guy in the face?
  • uberamd, on 11/15/2007, -10/+13Serious question and non-bias; just an observation me and some friends have made: Are all of diggs readers liberals?
    • Coven, on 11/15/2007, -5/+7Most of them except for the Paul-bots (see two comments down from yours)
      • anachronaut, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2As annoying as the constant Ron Paul comments are, that's not really a fair criticism in this case because that's not a "Paul bot". He's a neocon-supporting ***** who's trolling to make the Ron Paul supporters look like even worse spammers than they already appear.
    • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -1/+9I consider myself fiscally moderately conservative and socially very liberal. So to answer your question ... maybe?
    • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -5/+7This article would pretty much be a highlight of how biased most digg users are...
    • Fieri, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3First step: Stop with the false left-right paradigm. Liberal means nothing. It's been hijacked by Sean Hannity to mean anyone with an opinion he doesn't want to address. A real "liberal" in the dictionary sense opposes both parties, which are fascist. A real conservative also opposes both parties.

      Here are some important issues: The Bill of Rights. The continued existence and strength of the American dollar. Now tell me, which party will protect those? Neither.

      The Bushes and Clintons vacation together. Rupert Murdoch advises and openly supports the Hillary campaign. The election is a joke.
    • chijim70, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2I would say the majority of us are centrist and against fascism, corporatism, the erosion of the constitution, and against the majority of the presiding do nothing government. The present government has almost nobody who represents the majority of American digg users. Realize that digg has a ton of users who aren't even US citizens I've made plenty of posts ranting about both sides and I didn't get dugg down for it. I think it has more to do with the person speaking/typing with facts to back up what they say and not parroting for either party. I've seen plenty democratic parrots get buried to hell. I think the majority of digg hates when people tow the party line regardless of the facts on any given topic. Hell, Hillary was massacred front page for campaign finance corruption involving marvel comics a few weeks back. I think at it's core a majority of digg users have a desire to at least struggle toward a Utopian ideal in America which if you agree that we are "the great experiment" then we should as participants of the US be striving for that.
  • jetboyterp, on 11/15/2007, -25/+17Now, why does Dick Cheney even have to be mentioned in a story about birds raised for hunting? What, is Cheney the only hunter in the world?

    Oh, wait...he's Republican, and a member of the Bush Administration. And the diggbats foam at the mouth...
    • uberamd, on 11/15/2007, -8/+10OMG REPUBLICAN, BASH HIM!!!
    • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -6/+15Because he partakes in a terrible thing - staged killing for the sake of killing (reminds me of a certain war). I'm a hunter, but my idea of hunting is clearly quite different from Mr. Cheney's. I prefer to let animals roam free and periodically fill my freezer, with great respect to the animal. Mr. Cheney just likes to watch things die.

      I guess that's why I find this story intereting.
      • Bamont, on 11/15/2007, -6/+4I call that splitting hairs. You think a deer grazing and then being gunned down from a stoop in a chair is a "nice" way too die? Get over yourself. Killing is killing, people do it to animals, have for years. The only thing that makes this article digg-worthy is that it begins with "Dick Cheney's.."
        • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1American law tends to factor in motive and method quite a bit when it comes to murder, so why not apply this to the killing of animals? I'm not a hunter and I don't think I ever could do it, but I also don't see anything wrong with hunting for food. It's certainly not any worse than how most of our meat is "processed".
    • TotalCarb, on 11/15/2007, -5/+7Dick is not a republican, he is a Neocon. He's also a dick.
      • blueforce4116, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1Nice unintentional pun with the Dick part.
      • Observant1, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1neocon = nazi
      • delafere, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1No, he's a neocon AND a republican. And you know it.
        • delafere, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1Oh... AND a dick. But that's sort of redundant since we've already established he's a neocon.
    • YEEK, on 11/15/2007, -2/+7It's important because he is the VP of the most powerful nation in the world and when he kills helpless animals over and over it exhibits a character trait that is scary to have in a person of such power over us all.
      • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -2/+3EXACTLY what i was going to say. No need to add any other argument.
  • Coven, on 11/15/2007, -3/+23Let's set him up with a canned hunt with a grizzly on steroids that hasn't been fed in a week.

    And all he gets is a .22
    • chosenjones, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5oh, lets!
    • hellokittyownsu, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5From what I hear bears can't digest evil so it's not even worth giving it a try.
    • GamingFox, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4Nah, give him a BB gun instead.
  • bingobongony, on 11/15/2007, -9/+3Wow...and alternet thinks that this made Cheney look bad.
    • Identity4, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4Oh im sorry! Were you trying to make a point?
  • Damian91, on 11/15/2007, -1/+11Don't ever let this guy get ahold of GTA. We would never see him again :( hmmm....I think I'm on to something.
  • FeartheKnighted, on 11/15/2007, -8/+10FTA: "with Blackwater-style snipers "protecting" the vice president's right to shoot tame birds."
    Ugh. I hate this fat bastard as much as the next person, but this is some pathetic journalism.
    • LurkerSteve2, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Are you implying that this is a heavily biased attack piece instead of a quality piece of journalism? For shame!
    • impresently, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1OK. This is opinion-type rag piece on the internet. It's not a news piece. There are countless pages like this. Pages like that follow the rules of personal bias, not your standard journalism. That's just the way it is.
      It's not the front page of the New York Times.
      • FeartheKnighted, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1But still, there is absolutely no reason to throw in the "Blackwater-style" adjective before snipers. That is just pure garbage.
      • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1HAHA!! like NYT is good journalism, hehehe, i saw it, i saw your joke, very good...
    • chijim70, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1I'll agree to a small extent but you gotta admit there is something wrong with this being the way a world leader gets his jollies. Not to mention the worst pr move. If he just hunted like a real sportsmen this wouldn't be news. Hell, you even had a hunter post above that he was ashamed to be tossed in the same boat as this guy.
  • KanchoBukkakeku, on 11/15/2007, -2/+18Cheney is like the penguin as portrayed on batman returns, only less charismatic.
    • demizer, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3And instead of fish, he bites the heads off of pheasants.
      • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Just like Ozzy.
        • hellokittyownsu, on 11/15/2007, -0/+0I really wonder what really happened when they had dinner together. Or did he have dinner with Bush?
    • TheLoneHoot, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1and less handsome than Oswald Cobblepot
  • sonnybobiche, on 11/15/2007, -12/+10Okay, but these pheasants didn't go to waste. They were eaten. Did anybody eat meat today? That was kept in a pen for its entire life and then killed too. Do you feel bad about eating it? Do you feel that the person that killed it is a scumbag? Do you think that they should be ashamed of what they do?
    Or is it just because he's Dick Cheney and you've learned to hate everything he does, even if it's something that doesn't really matter?
    • Dumbledorito, on 11/15/2007, -3/+12He ate seventy of them?

      And no, I don't begrudge him for eating meat. I just don't get how this is in any way a sport. There appears to be as much challenge involved as in trying to foil a hyperactive dog's attempt to chase a frisbee by tossing said frisbee.
      • bonds, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2What, you've never eaten seventy birds before?
        • Dumbledorito, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Once I ate seventy birds and one cow, but I only ate the cow so she'd give me a discount on the other girls.

          / Taps cigar and adjusts Groucho disguise.
    • c7hu1hu, on 11/15/2007, -1/+12This was not hunting. Canned shoots are a sad, pathetic attempt at making the appearance that one is hunting.
    • darnit, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5There is a difference between the skill of real hunting and just shooting easy targets for the pleasure of killing..... not to mention the $32,000 tax payer tab.


  • joshuaer, on 11/15/2007, -11/+6The article seemed anti-hunting ya killing tame birds is not fun and i do not do it but hunting is fun and i eat what i kill, for those of you who eat meat and hate hunting or what Dick did well what do you think happens to the chickens and cows you are eating every day. I would not really call what he did hunting it was more like buying stuff to kill rather then buying pre-killed birds in a store that are ready to eat. Now 400+ birds in one day is a little much but still it is more fun then going and buying it in a store!
  • rhino153, on 11/15/2007, -5/+8It is so much more sporting to run the cow down the chute and hit it with the air hammer.
  • thedbs, on 11/15/2007, -21/+14I ate at KFC last week. Those were tame birds too. Hypocrites.
    • Rambeezle, on 11/15/2007, -8/+4Please don't make meat-eating liberals feel guilty. They are always apart of the solution.
    • ichbinladen, on 11/15/2007, -7/+2I bet you sucked the gravy off your own balls too... hypocrite.
    • pintomp3, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7did you pretend that placing your order was a sport?
      • thedbs, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0I like to pretend they're liberals. The modern type, not the classical.
    • hellokittyownsu, on 11/15/2007, -5/+1KFC birds aren't tamed they're mutant *****.
  • TexTurboesq, on 11/15/2007, -8/+20I'm all for hunting. But game hunting farms is for fags. Take your rifle and go to Montana. Shots are 1000 meters +. Better yet hunt with your bow, and hunt something that can eat you, Now were talkin.
    • Fizban140, on 11/15/2007, -2/+2He is rich, why would he do that?
    • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1Not that I personally hunt, but I have friends that do game hunting farms...Its not like they tie up the game, and let you shoot it wherever you want.
      Many of the same rules apply, you can only shoot certain parts...etc.
    • blueforce4116, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4You forget...he is fat. How is he going to hunt in Montana when he can barely walk to his office.
    • Jamihabs, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3"Shots are 1000 meters +". Tex, I think you are telling a Texas sized tail. I'm no hunter, but I've heard that hitting a deer from 100 yards is an excellent shot.
      • snugglebear, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4Hunters on the internet are like teenages talking about their dick sizes. Every hunter I know shoots 1/4 MOA groups at 100 yards and kills deer and moose at 500+ yards with no problem. Oh and every second one is a gunsmith too which can make any gun in the world better than any company.

        Seriously, its all BS.
    • joshuaer, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1How is hunting different then buying meat at a store!
  • Seeker135, on 11/15/2007, -4/+15If you eat all that you hunt and kill, you are a hunter. If you give it away, you are a phony, not a hunter, get an x-box or something. If you don't eat it or give it away, you are an armed thug, please eat your gun.
    • c1nn46, on 11/15/2007, -6/+3where'd that definition come from? what is wrong with hunting and then giving it to someone who eats it, say an indigent with no home? I guess you are right, we should play x-box instead of feeding the poor.
  • SiNN4R, on 11/15/2007, -8/+20I don't see whats wrong with this. I frequently smash baby ducklings with a hammer on my off time.
    • bonds, on 11/15/2007, -5/+1It would be wrong if you used a shotgun.
      • nastajus, on 11/15/2007, -1/+1Once the joke gets going, all reply jokes are safely allowed. I think.
    • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1sledge or--?
  • mclumber1, on 11/15/2007, -17/+4Before you critisize Cheney for doing this, maybe you should look at yourselves. How many of you enjoy eating chicken nuggets, or having scrambled eggs for breakfast? What about veal? Those animals are treated just as badly, if not worse than hunting birds. So if you eat these things...***** you for being a hypercrit.
    • Cherubim, on 11/15/2007, -7/+3I don't eat meat you *****. So ***** YOU.

    • feckineejit, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4hunting tame farm raised pheasant you aren't planing on eating is very different.
      • joshuaer, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1most places do something with the animal if the person does not take it, I know that the one in my area cleans cuts freezes and gives them to soup kitchens!
    • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -3/+1Seeing as we can't all be hunters, please let me know where I can get meat that has been humanely killed (assuming that's possible) and I'll eat that. The point is, Cheney has much more freedom to not do what he's doing than we do to not eat inhumanely killed meat.
  • Repsac, on 11/15/2007, -3/+32If Cheney wants to shoot *****, I say put him at the front of the lines in Iraq. Let him loose out there.
    • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -3/+2That's the last thing we need. That's what the Blackwater douches do.
    • blueforce4116, on 11/15/2007, -9/+3That is just stupid. When EVER has any country required its leaders to actually fight in the wars. You hate him w/e you dont need to make stupid ridiculous comments about it. All you do it make yourself look like a moron, and by the -diggs you have I can see that other people agree with me.
      • MacEnvy, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7It was (relatively) common for the leader of a country to lead his troops into battle, up until the last 200 years or so. At least those leaders were willing to put their own asses on the line for what they believed in, rather than our modern notion of warfare where the wealthy elite sit idly by while poor shmucks partake in the personal vendettas of the president.
      • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4yep, look at all those negative diggs... and I ran a | through all of em haha. But seriously, we shouldn't put him out there, he'd end up slightly wounding his whole squad.
  • TheBoost20, on 11/15/2007, -4/+2Triple Kill !!!
    • blueforce4116, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2lol I miss those old arcade turkey hunter games.
  • krakkinem, on 11/15/2007, -4/+8So it's just like that movie Hostel except with birds instead of humans. I'll bet the sick ***** would LOVE to have a go at some humans, though. I'm guessing that liberals would be his prey of choice.
    • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2And what tells you he didn't do that as well?
  • larfus, on 11/15/2007, -4/+6Well Cheney shooting tame birds is not really that bad. I mean it seems just like yesterday he was shooting his own hunting buddy's.
  • woofers07, on 11/15/2007, -2/+10I guess since he can't shoot old people in the face anymore, might as well switch to crippled birds.
  • p0s3r, on 11/15/2007, -16/+10Now this is just ***** stupid. Good one, diggtards.
    • TheLoneHoot, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Yes, shooting damned near flightless and blind birds in a canned "hunt" IS ***** stupid.
  • MikeFallopian, on 11/15/2007, -14/+8Do people really give a ***** whether or not the vice president hunts pheasants? What bearing does this have on his competency as a leader? If this is the best criticism you have against Cheney, you may be less intelligent than the birds discussed in the article.
    • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7Bubbleboy--this is, actually, not the best criticism we have against Cheney. It's more like... supporting evidence. You know how lawyers sometimes use indirect evidence to paint a picture of their client or the defendant? That's what this is.
    • joshuaer, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1did you notice how every comment that does not support the article is dugg down!
  • Fizban140, on 11/15/2007, -6/+8Oh god no, he shoots birds! What a fair and balanced article, it felt like reading fox news without the anti-depressants.
    • impresently, on 11/15/2007, -2/+1OK. This is opinion-type rag piece on the internet. It's not a news piece. There are countless pages like this. Pages like that follow the rules of personal bias, not your standard journalism. That's just the way it is.

      It's not the front page of the New York Times.
  • grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, on 11/15/2007, -6/+10Seriously. If you just sit back and think about it, the situation is absurd. This isn't hunting, it's pure predation albeit in the laziest form possible. It's like Ted Bundy on a Segway
  • DeFex, on 11/15/2007, -4/+8He should stick to lawyers. nobody would mind at all.
  • twocenthug, on 11/15/2007, -2/+2What a dick.
  • HomerSimpson748, on 11/15/2007, -10/+6I don't even have to read this story. This guy is PURE EVIL!!!
    • Sinbios, on 11/15/2007, -6/+3Wow so shooting some tame birds qualify for PURE EVIL nowadays? Evil's slipping.
      • pseudononymist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4A) He's named HomerSimpson748.
        B) PURE EVIL refers to his overall character, not to this specific act.
  • chosenjones, on 11/15/2007, -4/+7Is it so much to ask that we elect a vice president that is not a perpetually dishonest, sadistic bastard?
  • Terrk, on 11/15/2007, -5/+14It's amazing how many people will buy into anything that will make DC look like a dick.


    I've only been on one hunt that was remotely anything like this author says it is, and once we saw how they treated the birds, we withdrew our deposit and left.

    So don't get the idea that this is how ALL Bird hunts are. Clearly the majority of diggers never have gone hunting.

    Please, digg me down for knowning what the hell Im talking about. Thanks!
    • grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, on 11/15/2007, -2/+7So why pollute legitimate hunting, which you advocate, with Cheney's indulgence which you do not?
      The two seem mutually exclusive, yet it could appear that you are using the former to mitigate the latter?
      Good for you for not hunting in such conditions. It seems demeaning to all involved.
      Dick does appear as a dick tho...that seems undeniable...I think THAT is what the thread is about
      • Terrk, on 11/16/2007, -0/+1Agreed, but the artical makes it seem like its more then just about DC
  • Errdoth, on 11/15/2007, -5/+5Where at all does it say that Cheney hunted in this style? It talked about him visiting the club, and then went on to talk about the birds?
    • LurkerSteve2, on 11/15/2007, -6/+2Hey! Stop reading the article! This is Digg, it's not allowed!
  • spucky, on 11/15/2007, -4/+7Jeffry Dahmer started out skinning road kill. He had a fascination for dead animals and never was able to have any empathy for animals or humans, live or dead. Cheney has the same problem.
    • Sinbios, on 11/15/2007, -4/+3Hey Hitler started out posting dumb comments on message boards.
      • spucky, on 11/15/2007, -3/+3That's funny. Why don't you lie some more. You seem to be good at it.
        • Sinbios, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2No way, I SWEAR I'm telling the complete and unadulterated truth. Hitler was a master Internet BBS troll.

          Are you getting it yet?
    • MikeFallopian, on 11/15/2007, -3/+3What are your qualifications as a psychiatrist or a psychologist? Oh, you read a summary of the wiki article on Dahmer? I see...
      • spucky, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4College classes in psychology. How about your experience at the fryalator, you moron. Either talk about the situation or go make some fries you knuckle dragging mouth breathing turd.
        • mminor, on 11/15/2007, -2/+2Hahahahahaha. College classes in psychology? We have a winner right here folks! Fully qualified to diagnose people he doesn't know based off of his own bias, and doing so over the internet to boot. I'm not sure what's funnier, that dumbass comment or him attempting to defend his stupid comments by viciously insulting the people who point out how dumb he sounds. Reminds me of a prepubescent child throwing a temper tantrum. Let's see what he comes up with this time.
    • mlfoley, on 11/15/2007, -3/+3So did Bush. When he was a child, he liked shooting at and blowing up frogs.
  • DrunkChimp, on 11/15/2007, -4/+3Dickless Chennie is a coward douche bag just like all his neocon supporters. Imagine if he were a regular Joe, not doing a canned hunt, he probably wouldn't get off a shot. That is unless, you are his buddy, you might be lucky enough to see him give you a shotgun blast to your face.
  • frozenpxl, on 11/15/2007, -4/+6Buried for inaccuracy. Title implies that he hits his intended target at some point.
  • lajaw, on 11/15/2007, -16/+12This is a non-story from a leftist website. This isn't even considered hunting, it's actually considered "shooting". I've known folks to make a lot of money at this. So what's the big deal? Don't like meat? Don't eat it. So many are looking for any excuse to cuss our Vice President. Mellow out.............he'll be out of office soon. This is nothing but bloodlust from the lefties.
    • Fizban140, on 11/15/2007, -7/+4Very true, but you will sadly be dugg down.
    • mlfoley, on 11/15/2007, -3/+5Funny, I thought killing innocent animals was bloodlust. You folks sure do have a way of reinventing meanings.
    • Fieri, on 11/15/2007, -3/+2Personally I don't think this is wrong per se, but it illustrates a certain psychological mindset that is unhealthy for a Vice Pres, especially one with Cheney's history.
  • scabbers, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Picard heads to dinner but finds the dinner bowl filled with squirming larva and is immediately disgusted.
  • diggjs05, on 11/15/2007, -0/+0I sincerely wish he has the same fate as those birds he killed.
  • feckineejit, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2If he eats every pheasant that he shoots (70 each trip) then I'd say he's a hungry man with a hunting problem.
  • Monkeywithacold, on 11/15/2007, -2/+7Is anyone else cracking up at this article?
    This pretty much encapsulates how ridiculous digg can be.
    What can I say, im still reading...
    • yfguitarist, on 11/15/2007, -1/+2This thread feels like a parody of digg user mob mentality: No one questions the source or considers the likely angle of propaganda but believes it to be 100% true because it reaffirms what they already think - right wing is evil etc, people stating arguments for the other side get dugg down without a second thought, calls for assassination are dugg up, wild leaps in logic are made (Cheney probably would love to torture humans)...

      The intended effect of the hate-rousing article succeeds once again!
      • snugglebear, on 11/15/2007, -1/+0Next up: A fake article from the onion which everyone gets mad and rants about before realizing its fake! :-O
      • abuelos84, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1well, he IS part of an administration that supports the use of torture in interrogations. that is no "Leftist" invention...
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