The Cheney-Huckabee Memorial Gun Club & Media Research Institute

Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.

Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads. This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.

Your Swamp correspondent, the son of a longtime hunter education instructor, grew up plying the corn rows and stream banks of rural Oregon with a Labrador retriever and a Mossberg 20-gauge pump shotgun. On our hunts for pheasant, grouse and quail, merely swinging a gun barrel in the general direction of another person was grounds for day-long banishment to the truck (which smelled like wet dog).

Suffice to say, if any of our hunting mates had pulled a stunt like Huckabee’s yesterday, we never would have invited them back. It’s the sort of behavior that drives safety-conscious hunters up the wall, because it reinforces a reckless, gun-totin’ stereotype. Link

   'Hunting mates'? 'The son of a longtime hunter education instructor'? This weenie is full of birdshot. I'll lay even money he's never fired a shotgun in his miserable liberal life. Yeah, he's right about where the muzzle's pointed, but if those reporters were stupid enough to get close enough to be in that position, they deserved a few rounds fired over their heads just to keep 'em at bay. Because there's another rule of huntin'. STFU and don't scare the game. You DO that, and you'll never be invited to go huntin' again, much less be exiled to the stinkin' pickup. I think, since Dick Cheney's going to be out of work soon and Huckabee's not gonna get his dream job and since they both like to hunt, they should open up a game preserve and hunting lodge just for members of the media after this election cycle. Another REAL important rule of hunting is to stay the hell out of range.

These days, I wish all the reporters were out of range of my earshot..Spread the word! 

Comments

[Phoenix]

How embarrassing for everyone. This reminds of when the Marines landed in Somalia in a night landing. They sneaked in and waded ashore, and there lined up with cameras and mikes were about twenty-five reporters from all over the world. My god, can it get any stupider?

[Kurt P]

The Huckster invited those reporters for a photo op. That they even happened to see some retard bird who didn't fly away when they ALL started coming at it was just an opportunity to show his
machoness.
That was probably the first time Huck handled a shotgun since he was a teen-ager.

[Kevin]

He didn't shoot over their heads. He's just a bad shot.