I was going to mention something about this weekend incident in which Dick Cheney accidentally capped some dude while hunting, and I was going to make the probably obvious joke about how Cheney must've really been on some kind of rampage if he was intending to shoot Quayle but got a different guy instead -- but first I thought, "You know, I better check to see if anyone else has made that joke already," and then I thought, "If anyone made it, it's Matt Lavine," so I went over to Basket Full of Puppies, and . . . sure enough, he already had. Bastard!
Still, I have to give Lavine props for wading into the FreeRepublic forums to gauge the nutcase right-winger reaction to the incident -- which is certainly more than I would've bothered to do -- which reveals that the Freepers managed to wait 65 entire posts before re-accusing Hillary Clinton of assassinating Vince Foster, 69 posts before fantasizing about George W. Bush shooting Cindy Sheehan . . . and 66 before the light bulb went on and someone made a Quayle joke. I'm telling you, six years of complete Republican control in Washington have made the Freepers complacent -- those guys are slipping.
Do we get to start calling him "Dead Eye Dick"????
ReplyDeleteHow long until somebody makes a metaphorical connection between the Iraq war, Bin Laden, and Dead Eye Dick's hunting trip?
oh, I think I just did... nevermind....
I think that first Quayle reference was actually a misspelling of the bird. You give the Freepers too much credit.
ReplyDeleteToday's (Feb. 13) Philadelphia Daily News has on the front cover a picture of Cheney, grinning and holding a gun, with the words "DEADEYE DICK" in large white letters.
ReplyDeleteI skipped the Quayle joke. Too easy.
ReplyDeleteBut man, when this administration hits ar ough patch, EVERYTHING goes wrong, doesn't it?
It's like...God doesn't like them or something.
I went for "Cheney's Got a Gun," referencing Aerosmith.
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