If you haven't heard by now, VP Cheney nearly killed his friend and fellow quail hunter, 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington, on Saturday. No word on how many quail were injured or killed in this particularly bloody administrative hunting expedition, but Whittington is apparently in stable condition after being helicoptered to a hospital from the South Texas ranch where the shotgun-pellet-spraying incident took place.
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