Reno Gazette Journal reports that Cheney's shooting foiled attack

the reno gazette journal must have a sense of humor... i'm actually only guessing that they have a sense of humor... esteemed son sent it along with this question attached:

"Please tell me that this is a joke."

Shooting foiled attack: White House

Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of a supposed Republican backer on a Texas ranch this week was a positive step in the nation's war on terror, a White House spokesman said today. The spokesman blamed "a few discontented Democrats" for using the incident for political gain, but said President Bush will present Cheney with a prestigious award for his part in spoiling an unspecified "terrorist plot."

"It's been established that (shooting victim) Harry Whittington was to blame," Scott McClellan said, referring to administration claims that Whittington, wearing an orange vest and crashing through brush, "broke protocol" by approaching the vice president from behind during a hunt.

"Our intelligence indicates that Mr. Whittington may not have been who he presented himself to be," McClellan said. "Had the vice president not acted, innocent American quail could have been killed."

McClellan declined to give details, citing national security concerns. White House sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the man they knew as an ally of the administration may be an al Qaeda lieutenant named Pulin Yerchain. Central Intelligence Agency reports suggest Yerchain infiltrated the Texas Republican party as early as 1950 and used hefty political donations to rise to a position of trust.

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McClellan labelled "not worth a response" suggestions by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, that Cheney was "a secrecy-obsessed gun nut." He also condemned as "bordering on treason" charges from firearms experts that Cheney had broken a basic rule of hunter safety. The National Rifle Association's Web site warns that hunters should "never fire in a direction in which there are people or any other potential for a mishap."

"That's the NRA," McClellan said. "We can speculate about their motives, but what's important is that the vice president was able to save himself and the American people by his quick action."

McClellan said Bush will present Cheney with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in a televised ceremony at the Daytona 500 NASCAR race this Sunday.

the truly unbelievable thing about this story and the current state of the nation is that we could even CONSIDER the possibility of it NOT being a joke...

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