Honestly, who here didn't think W would somehow get credit out of this-ABC

[underpants]

Come on let's see those hands.

This is NOT Tom Tomorrow writing this, this is the LexisNExis transcript from ABC World News Tonight last night (Diane Sawyer sitting in).

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) You know, Elizabeth, listening to George, I'm thinking of our conversation in the newsroom today about President Bush and his own hunting mishap.

ELIZABETH VARGAS (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) That's right. He wrote about it in his autobiography. In 1994, he shot a rare bird by accident on a hunting trip of his own. He says he didn't know what to do, but then decided to tell every single reporter who was accompanying him on that hunting trip. So, at least in that respect, you saw a very different way, a different version of how to handle this kind of crisis.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Right. Different incident, but sharp contrast in the way it was handled.

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007216&docId=l:355829990&start=4

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. That sound you hear?

:banghead:

Now who here thinks Georgie-boy would gladly have participated in a delay and a cover up if he'd shot a person instead of a rare bird?

[underpants]

4. I can't find a video on this

but it was worse than the transcript makes it out to be. Complete with pictures of W in jeans and a hunting vest and hat...with shotgun. Diane Sawyer was outright gushing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Yes. There's a difference between a bird and an old bird.

[fooj]

2. Oh yeah...Little Lord Pissypants and his TRUTHINESS!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's laughable.


Peace.

[Dr Fate]

3. Shooting a bird and a human are 2 diff. things. n/t

n/t

[peekaloo]

6. CBS News used the pretzel incident to demonstrate his "forthrightitude".

with the clip where he revealed how he came to and saw the dogs looking "concerned".

It's a bitter laugh....but a laugh nonetheless.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. So Shooting The Wrong Bird And Shooting A Friend Are The Same?

This is pure stupidity on Sawyer's part.
The Professor

[underpants]

8. That wasn't what got me on this

it was that W gets credit in any way for some screw up he was thousands of miles away from....hold it this is starting to sound familiar... :yoiks:

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Yeah, I Know

I understood what you were saying. But, i was commenting about what a stupid analogy it was in the first place. It doesn't even make any sense.
The Professor

[TomInTib]

10. This is BS! I remember it well, Stoopid's pic was all over front pages

of Texas papers carrying that Killdeer over to where some other hunters were standing.

Rove was spinning, spinning, spinning.

Hunters were laughing their asses off.

Here was the villiage idiot, grinning like a prideful dunce, shooting a ground bird.

Killdeer are notoriously hard to hit on the wing and rumor had it that georgie shot the thing on the ground.

Sawyer's account is total bullshit.

Man, I wish I had kept that pic. You can't find it anywhere now.

[underpants]

11. Can't find a pic on that

During his 1994 run for Texas governor, Bush participated in a Texas dove hunt as a campaign photo-op. Bush killed a bird known as a killdeer, which is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He was charged with a misdemeanor and fined $130. He later joked about the dead bird in his State of the State Address in 1995.

http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan02/endangered12102.html


The Bush/killdeer incident was when he was running against Ann Richards for governor of Texas. Richards is a lifetime hunter, and it was beginning to look in the papers as though she was more "macho" than George. So Rove set up a dove hunting trip for Bush. Bush promptly mistook a killdeer for a dove and killed it.

It's interesting to contrast the Bush camp's defense of Bush's obvious, non-hunter goof with their lambasting of John Kerry for having borrowed hunting gear to go shooting -- Kerry being another life-long hunter.

Bush's camp pokes fun at anyone who is what Bush badly wants to be but isn't: War heroes, Vietnam vets, hunters, authors, people of grace and intelligence, etc., etc.

I wonder if there is a name for such a syndrome.


http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/02/these_guys_at_the_top_are_desp.php