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In Our Time
Wayne Brown
Sunday, February 19, 2006

'Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects, but it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. Moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasise this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice-president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted.he'll shoot them in the face.'
(Jon Stewart, The Daily Show)
Wayne Brown

To begin with, certainly, it was funny.
Two Saturdays ago, on a bird shoot on a Texas ranch, the vice-president of the United States, on paper the second most powerful man in the world - though in reality, of course, the most powerful, given a president who's always been at his happiest riding his little bicycle down in Crawford -
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Step 4: Admit no mistakes. Express sympathy. Blame the victim without leaving fingerprints by outsourcing the smear to the private sector.'

And who can blame her? These people, Cheney and Bush - they exhaust moral outrage. And that's really the whole story. "

Lots here. Funny, too. Check it out at the link.