Dram Shop Factory: Alcohol served to Cheney at lunch, in cooler while

driving and after shooting. Affirmative defense blames drunk victim.



dram shop.

Archaic. A place where alcoholic beverages are sold; a bar or saloon.

-Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Ed.



dram shop act.

A statute allowing a plaintiff to recover damages from a commercial

seller of alcoholic beverages for the plaintiff's injuries caused by

a customer;s intoxication. Also termed civil-liability act.

-Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Ed. (aka Dram Shop Theory)



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Drinkin', drivin' 'n shootin'



Cheney's latest crime spree



by John Lee

Pirate News TV

PirateNews.org



This rant is followup to the 5 previous postings on this RSS feed.



Our crooked copsters here in Knoxville Tennessee are no better than

in Texas. They've fumbled the ball so many times, when they could

have arrested Bush & Cheney when they fly into Knoxville

International Cocaine Airport. But then, our former mayor was Bush

Jr's Skull & Bones coffinmate and fellow cheerleader at all-male Yale

(now he's ambassador to Poland), and the owners of our Scripps Howard

media mafia cartel are members of Bohemian Grove.



For ANYBODY to support Cheney in ANYTHING he does is criminal,

insane, and suicidal.



The "news" media failed to make an independent ballistics test to

compare Deadeye Dick's shotgun to Whittington's injuries.



Alex Jone's at least bought the exact model and choke of shotgun, and

used same shells as Cheney (Infowars.com). Then he presented his

results to the public, which is more than the "news" media did.

Jone's test ain't perfect. He needs hi-res photos of the target hits,

and he needs to do the test at 5-yard increments, with 5-foot by 5-

foot targets that include human outlines, in order to count the full

spread of pellets. Then simply post a table with the number of hits

on each target and within each body's outline, for each barrel (it

had 2 different choke sizes, and we don't know which one Cheney

fired - or both barrels).



Without crime scene photos of Whittington with his shirt off, before

doctors cleaned him up, and without the medical reports of exact

number of wounds and pellets recovered, we're all reduced to making

educated guestimates.



Whittington's bullet-ridden face:

http://davidicke.com/news//data/upimages/whittington1.jpg



At any rate, to not arrest Cheney for this crime, is to let the lead

hijacker of 9/11 escape. It's like dropping the winning touchdown

pass in the Superbowl.



Here's video from the 9/11 Commission of Secretary of Transportation

Norman Mineta (from Lockheed Martin) testifying as eyewitness to

Cheney ordering the military to stand down and allow the jet (robotic

Boeing A3 Skywarrior) to hit the Pentagon:

http://911truthmovement.org/archives/2005/07/post.php

http://September911Surprise.com



DOH!



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Cheney's hunting host lobbied White House



Ranch owner who divulged accident earned $160,000 for work in 2004



(ARMSTRONG ADMITS CHENEY WAS DRINKING ALL DAY)



(This article reported Armstrong was employed by Baker Botts law

firm, run by Bush family lawyer James Baker III, former secretary of

state who ordered Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. Baker is general

counself for Carlyle Group, the Pentagon contractor owned by Sir

George Bush Sr Knight of the BRITISH Empire, British prime minister

John Major, Queen Elizabeth of England, the Saudi royal family, and

the BIN LADENS. Baker is the lawyer DEFENDING the Arabs in a trillion-

dollar class action filed by families of the victims of 9/11/2001.

http://geocities.com/forthetruth911 )



By Aram Roston

NBC Investigative Unit

Feb. 15, 2006



Katharine Armstrong, whose family owns the ranch where Vice President

Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner, is a registered

lobbyist who has been paid to lobby the White House, according to

records.



Armstrong told NBC News in a telephone interview that she has never

directly lobbied Cheney as far as she remembers.



"Never!" she said. And she says she does not remember directly

lobbying the president himself either.



Armstrong was playing host to Cheney and to attorney Harry

Whittington at her 50,000-acre spread 60 miles south of Corpus

Christi when Cheney accidentally shot Whittington on Saturday. The

White House did not immediately release news of the incident, but

Armstrong said she told Cheney on Sunday morning that she was going

to inform the local paper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. She said

he agreed, and the newspaper reported it on its Web site Sunday

afternoon.



A statement issued Monday by Kenedy County (Texas) Sheriff Gilbert

San Miguel, who interviewed Cheney after the hunting accident, said

that alcohol was not a factor in the shooting (BULLSHIT!). "The

investigation reveals that there was no alcohol, or misconduct

involved in the incident," the sheriff said (BUT CHECK HIS BANK

ACCOUNTS FOR SUSPICIOUS "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS").



`No comment' on blood test



At a news conference Wednesday outside Whittington's hospital in

Corpus Christi, reporters asked hospital officials whether

Whittington's blood-alcohol level had been tested. The officials

responded with a "no comment." (IN OTHER WORDS HE WAS DRUNK!)



In a recorded, on-the-record phone call with NBC News, Armstrong said

that beer may have been available at lunch that day. "If someone

wants to help themselves to a beer," she said, "they may, but I did

not see anyone do that," Armstrong says (DRAM SHOP DOCTRINE HOLDS HER

CRIMINALLY LIABLE). She says she was not sure if there were beers in

the coolers but wasn't ready to rule it out: "There may be a beer or

two in there, but remember not everyone in the party was shooting,"

she told NBC News (SO THEY WERE DRINKING AND DRIVING).



Armstrong added that she did not believe that Cheney or anyone else

shooting in the hunting party had alcohol on Saturday before the

hunting accident (BULLSHIT!).



NBC News called the vice president's office for comment four times

Tuesday and Wednesday and asked whether the vice president or anyone

in the hunting party had consumed any alcohol on Saturday prior to

the accident. In an e-mail statement Wednesday to NBC News, the vice

president's press secretary referred NBC News to the Kenedy County

Sheriff's Department report on the incident. Later in the day on Fox

News, Brit Hume stated that Cheney told him during a taped interview

that he had had "a beer at lunch" before the hunting incident (THEN

ANOTHER BEER, AND ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER, UNTIL HE LOST COUNT).



Armstrong was paid $160,000 in 2004 by the powerful legal firm Baker

Botts to lobby the White House, according to records she filed with

the U.S. Senate as required by lobbying disclosure rules. The records

indicate she was paid the money after she "communicated with the

White House on behalf of Baker Botts clients."

http://bakerbotts.com



Won't reveal client's name



In a phone interview, she told NBC News that in return for the money

in one case, she set up a meeting at the White House for a Baker

Botts client, although she said she felt she could not release the

client's name.



"A meeting for doing something with one of their clients," she said,

describing the event. "I'm not at liberty to say which." (SAUDI ROYAL

FAMILY ACCUSED OF PERPING THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS?) She says she

cannot remember which White House official the meeting was with. She

also said that during the inauguration proceedings, she got Karl Rove

to speak at a Baker Botts function. "I got them Karl Rove," she said.



Records indicate that early in 2005 she ended her dealings with Baker

Botts.



In a subsequent interview, Armstrong told NBC News that Baker Botts

asked her not to discuss what she did for the firm. Reached late

Tuesday afternoon, Baker Botts had no comment on the story.



Records also indicate that early the same year she ended her lobbying

relationship with another firm, Prionics, which had paid her to "work

with the administration," on issues related to mad cow disease.

(BIOWEAPONIZED MAD COW PRION DISEASE?)



Bush shot at ranch while governor



Armstrong also told NBC News that while George W. Bush did shoot at

her ranch while he was Texas governor, she has never hosted him while

he was president.



Armstrong said the shooting accident happened toward the end of the

hunt on Saturday, when it was still sunny but as darkness was

encroaching and they were preparing to go inside. She said

Whittington made a mistake by not announcing that he had walked up to

rejoin the hunting line, and Cheney didn't see him as he tried to

down a bird.



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.



The Associated Press contributed to this report.



http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11349649



See also:



Latest news on Cheney hunting accident

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11340558/



Vote: OK for White House to joke about accident?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11349140/



Political cartoons related to the shooting

http://cagle.com/news/CheneyShoots/





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VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies



By CALVIN WOODWARD and NANCY BENAC

Forbes Magazine

Associated Press

02.18.2006



Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his

hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out

right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly - and often still

wrong.



The result: a week of shifting blame, belatedly acknowledged beer

consumption (not "zero" drinking after all) and evolving

discrepancies in how the shooting happened, its aftermath and the way

it was told to the nation.



"There's a reason they call this crisis management," said corporate

damage-control specialist Eric Dezenhall, "and that's because it's a

mess."



BLAME



In the first days after the vice president wounded attorney Harry

Whittington while shooting at quail last Saturday in Texas, blame was

placed on the victim for not announcing his presence to fellow hunter

Cheney.



"The vice president did everything right," Katharine Armstrong, the

ranch owner approved by Cheney to disclose the accident, said Monday.

Whittington, 78, should have shouted that he was rejoining the

hunting group after drifting off to retrieve a downed bird. "The

mistake exposed him to getting shot," she said. "It's incumbent on

him. He did not do that."



The White House picked up on that theme the same day in attempting to

deflect any responsibility from the vice president. "If I recall,"

Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said of Armstrong, "she pointed out

that the protocol was not followed by Mr. Whittington, when it came

to notifying the others that he was there."



The about-face came Wednesday when Cheney made his first public

comment on the accident.



"It was not Harry's fault," he said. "You can't blame anybody else.

I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend."



DRINKING



Although there is no evidence (BULLSHIT!) that beer impaired Cheney's

judgment, initial denials that he had consumed alcohol were wrong.



"No one was drinking," Armstrong said at the outset (BULLSHIT!). "No,

zero, zippo." She said the hunters washed down lunch with Dr Pepper.

Later, she qualified her comments and said beer might have been in

the cooler but she did not think anyone drank any.



The investigating officer from the Kenedy County sheriff's

department, after interviewing Whittington in the hospital, reported

that the victim "explained foremost there was no alcohol during the

hunt." (BULLSHIT! WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF WHITTINGTON'S BLOOD-ALCOHOL

TEST?)



Authorities did not investigate the accident until the next day. The

Texas Parks and Wildlife accident report, dated two days after the

shooting, checked "No" on the question of whether Cheney appeared

under the influence of intoxicants. It did not address whether the

hunters had been drinking at all. (The report also included a diagram

depicting Whittington's wounds on the wrong side of his body.)



Cheney acknowledged Wednesday, "I had a beer at lunch" several hours

before the group's afternoon hunt, asserting "nobody was under the

influence." (BULLSHIT!)



VICTIM'S CONDITION



In the rush to assure everyone Whittington was "just fine,"

(BULLSHIT!) some important details were left out.



Initial reports had him treated at the scene, then taken by ambulance

to the hospital, where in no time he was cracking jokes with the

nurses. It turned out that after being taken to the emergency room of

a local, small hospital, he was flown by helicopter to the intensive

care unit of the larger hospital in Corpus Christi.



According to Armstrong's initial account of the accident scene: "He

was talking. His eyes were open." Later, Cheney said that when he

rushed up to the stricken man and talked to him, Whittington had one

eye open and did not respond. He was, however, conscious.



Doctors said Tuesday that Whittington suffered a mild heart attack

while in the hospital when one of the pellets migrated to his heart.

He was released Friday.



LICENSE



Cheney did not have all his hunting papers in order, as suggested by

the White House and initially stated by Texas authorities.



On Sunday, a spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

said Cheney was legally hunting with a license he bought in November.

While that was true, the department's accident report the next day

stated that he was in violation of a law requiring him to have an

upland game bird stamp.



DISCLOSURE



The accident raised questions about the flow of information into and

out of the White House communications apparatus.



Asked why no one released news of the shooting on Saturday night,

McClellan said "the vice president's office was working to make sure

information got out" (BULLSHIT!) but that details were slow to reach

Washington that evening.



Armstrong, for her part, said no one at the ranch even discussed

releasing the news on Saturday.



She said her family realized Sunday morning that it would be a story

and decided to call the local newspaper, the Corpus Christi Caller-

Times. She said she then discussed news coverage with Cheney for the

first time.



"I said, 'Mr. Vice President, this is going to be public, and I'm

comfortable going to the hometown newspaper,'" she told The

Associated Press. "And he said, 'You go ahead and do whatever you are

comfortable doing.'"



TELLING WASHINGTON



McClellan said President Bush was told shortly before 8 p.m. EST

Saturday that Cheney had shot Whittington, less than half an hour

after Bush first heard there had a been an accident of some sort

involving Cheney's hunting party. Confirmation that Cheney was the

shooter was obtained when deputy chief of staff Karl Rove called

Armstrong, McClellan said.



However, McClellan said he didn't personally know Cheney was the

shooter until the next morning (BULLSHIT!), about 6 a.m. EST Sunday,

when he was awakened with the news.



He said he only knew the previous evening that someone in Cheney's

party had been involved in a hunting accident.



http://forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/02/18/ap2537023.h

tml



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Diagram in Cheney's accident report wrong



BY TOM BRUNE AND TIMOTHY M. PHELPS

NEWSDAY WASHINGTON BUREAU

February 16, 2006



WASHINGTON -- There is something wrong with this picture.



In the only publicly available, official report on last weekend's

accidental shooting by Vice President Dick Cheney, a diagram of a

body shows where Austin lawyer Harry Whittington was hit by pellets

fired from Cheney's Italian-made shotgun.



That diagram has been picked up and faithfully replicated by

television and newspapers across the country, including the New York

Times this week and by Newsday Thursday.



The only problem is that the diagram is wrong, by all accounts. It

shows Whittington hit on the left side of his face, neck and chest

when Cheney, the Kenedy County Sheriff's office and the report itself

say the wounds were on the right side.



Texas Game Warden James Duke filled out the report on Monday, based

on information from the sheriff's office, and he made a mistake, said

Lydia Saldana, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Parks and

Wildlife. "That's a human error," Saldana said. "He should have

colored the other side. It was the right side of the face and neck."



The diagram is a mirror image of a frontal representation of a body.

Duke forgot to adjust and put marks for the shots on the body's right-

hand side. Instead, he put them on his own right-hand side, Saldana

acknowledged.



Duke was not alone in his mistake. In another diagram showing the

body from the side, however, Duke got it right, the Texas Parks and

Wildlife Department's hunting accident report form shows.



"You want to try to record it accurately. That always helps if you

pull it up again in the future," said Mark Birkhauser, president

elect of the International Hunting Education Association.



POLICE REPORT

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-021406cheneyreport-

a,0,2237757.acrobat?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines



http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-

usdiag0217,0,7292010.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines



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"Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself!"

CNN reporter: "Are you getting a lot of that Mr. Vice President?"

"Dick" Cheney: "First time I've heard it., Must be a friend of

John... (Lee?), er, ah - never mind."

-VIDEO, OpEdNews.com, "Physician who told

Cheney to go Fuck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed

by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons," September 9, 2005

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"I'm glad my wife turned down Cheney's bribe, er, job offer to work

directly for him as SecDef at the Pentagon in 1992. She retired in

1993 and within 1 year had 4 heart attacks at age 32 from Gulf War

Vaccine Syndrome. Then US Gangsta Govt stole her pension, as done to

95% of disabled retired veterans."

-John Lee, producer of Pirate News TV

http://geocities.com/pentagon_whistleblower



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