You crack me up. When are you going on tour? I thought the same thing, but some of the information has made it to wall street journal and msn. I dunno.... still funny. I mean why a guy-girl-guy-girl 4some picnic?
Except for the guy being seriously injured, this one is cracking me up. Tracey -----Original Message----- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Pratt Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:44 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Was Cheney Hiding His Lewinsky? No, I'm tossing my hat in the "doubt" ring. A guy who's had four heart attacks in his life and at least three heart surgeries, with a "ladyfriend" on a par with Monica? I don't think he's that stupid. Well, I hope not, or we're one step closer to disaster, should Mister Bush ever fall. "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not know if the story below is true, but it sure is interesting. tracey Was Cheney Hiding His Lewinsky? Bob Cesca http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060215/cm_huffpost/015705 Sirius radio's Alex Bennett just broke a rumor that the delay in reporting the news that Cheney shot an old man in the heart was due to an effort to hide or spin Cheney's female companion. ADVERTISEMENT Pamela Willeford (shown right), ambassador to Switzerland and -- yes -- Liechtenstein, was part of the hunting excursion with Cheney and Whittington. And according to Willeford's account, Cheney and the ambassador were side-by-side when the shooting of Whittington took place. The vice president's Secret Service detail had to decide what to do with Willeford by way of perhaps covering up her relationship with Cheney, and thus the delay in reporting the news. The rumor goes that Lynn Cheney isn't happy with Cheney's close relationship with Willeford. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick-i_b_15711.html The real story is already emerging, if you're willing to do a little digging. Cheney and Whittington went hunting with two women (not their wives), there was some drinking, and Whittington wound up shot. Armstrong didn't see the incident but claimed she had, Cheney refused to be questioned by the Sheriff until the next morning, and a born-again evangelical physician has been downplaying Whittington's injuries since they occurrred. Neither the press nor law enforcement seems inclined to investigate. Before the right-wing commenters howl - there's documentation for all of these statements. Let's take them one by one: In addition to Cheney and Whittington, the hunting party included Katherine Armstrong (who was in the car at the time of the shooting: more on that later). After lots of evasive comments that only referred to a "third hunter," we now know her identity: Pamela Willeford, http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/13cheney.html the US Ambassador to Switzerland. Then there was this Armstrong quote on MSNBC and picked up by Firedoglake http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_firedoglake_archive.html#11399569 7605718161 (later dutifully scrubbed, but preserved on Google cache): "There may be a beer or two in there," (Armstrong) said, 'but remember not everyone in the party was shooting.'" Interestingly, Armstrong's playing with words here. She later said that she (Armstrong) hadn't had anything to drink, so at least one of the other three must have been drinking - and the other three were shooting. So while her statement was literally correct ("not everyone ... was shooting"), it gives the false impression that nobody drank and shot. Then there was this item (courtesy kos): http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/15/71550/5894 Armstrong said she saw Cheney's security detail running toward the scene. "The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem," she told The Associated Press. In other words, she didn't see the accident. All of her statements, replete with colorful sidebars about getting "peppered pretty good," gave the false impression she was an eyewitness. She wasn't. And what about Dr. David Blanchard, who made such light of Whittington's injuries? Before the heart attack occurred, Blanchard gave no indication that pellets had entered Whittington's torso or major organs (we now know that at least one other pellet entered his liver). I found an interesting quote. After asserting that spiritual beliefs help people recover more quickly (which studies have suggested may be true), Blanchard said this of people with out of body and near death experiences: "These people do quite well in their disease processes," he said. "The Lord wasn't quite ready for them yet . . . It makes believers out of them." It's likely that Blanchard is also the same "Dr. David Blanchard" who is listed as Vice Chairperson of World Hope International, a Christian evangelical aid group. http://www.worldhope.org/worldhope/staff.htm Blanchard's certainly entitled to his own beliefs, and World Hope International (if he's the same Blanchard) has done some good work, albeit with a proselytizing bent. But most evangelicals in this country are ardent supporters of the Bush/Cheney Administration. This may explain the otherwize puzzling word choices Dr. Blanchard made to play down Whittington's injuries, especially before the heart attack made that more difficult to do. So was Cheney drinking, and was there anything inappropriate about this hunting party? We don't know, and nobody's investigating. There's reason to be suspicious. We do have the suggestion that drinking was taking place, we have inconsistencies and a pattern of deception in Armstrong's statements, we have a shooting injury that's far more serious than originally claimed ... and a Sheriff's Department and national press that have already proclaimed the VP innocent of all wrongdoing. I was right to call this Cheney's Chappaquiddick. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick_b_15585.html The parallels get stronger every day. Of course, Chappaquiddick happened almost forty years ago, and Ted Kennedy's turned his personal life around. Cheney's actions happened this weekend. There's reason to be suspicious of the Vice President's behavior, starting with the cover-up itself. They're trying to spin it as just a badly handled case of press relations, but it's could be a whole lot more than that. http://nightlight.typepad.com/ Tracey de Morsella Convergence Media, Inc Publisher of The Job Seeker's Guide to Diversity Employment Resources 8345 NW 66th Street, Suite 8916 Miami, FL 33166-2626 Phone: 888-750-6132 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.jobseekersdiversityguide.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.10/262 - Release Date: 2/16/2006 SPONSORED LINKS Science fiction and fantasy Genre magazine --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "scifinoir2" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- "Excuse me while I whip this out." Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles" --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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