CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 78-year-old hunting companion of Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering in stable condition Monday after Cheney accidentally shot him during a weekend quail hunting trip, a hospital official said. Harry Whittington "rested well last night," said Peter Banko, hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial. The hospital listed Whittington's condition as "very stable," he said. Whittington, an Austin attorney, was flown to the hospital after Cheney accidentally shot him Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch, hitting him with birdshot.

"It's not critical. It's not serious," Banko said at a morning briefing. He said admitting Whittington to the trauma-intensive care unit was "a fairly common procedure" for a patient hit by a spray of the small pellets. "I don't know how much spray he has got," Banko said. "My understanding from the physicians is that after you get peppered, sometimes they need to do exploratory surgeries if it gets lodged in a little deeper. Sometimes it's tweezers." Banko said he did not know when Whittington would be released.



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Don't you wish it were the other way around?

 

 

The irony -- Chaney shooting Quail ?? Good thing he wasn't out hunting with Bush.... what a scandal. Wonder how the NRA feels about this incident ??

 

quail shooting I never understood anyway. Not that good to eat, too small.

 

It was only a lawyer.


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No wonder his parents named him Dick.

 

Unfockingbelievable. The onion.com couldn't write satire this good! I mean this administration rushed into war on bad/falsified advice/reports..but cant report the VP shooting someone in the face for 24 hours? How sad..how arrogant!