No no no, not for the wars and the no-bid contracts for his friends but something more easy to admit and apologie for. Yet...Noooooo.

The initial reports were fudged. Mr Whittington was shot by VP Dick Dead-Eye Chainy on a hunting venture...actually they were just driving by a field, got out and opened up on some unsuspecting fowl.

The victim was first said to have minor wounds but a recent story pointed out that Mt Whittington was close to losing his life with buckshot near his heart, and to boot had a heart attack while in the hospital.

Since Dick Cheney shot him, Harry Whittington's aim has been to move on

"Whittington sweeps a hand up to his dusky face and points near his right eye, then to the right side of his forehead. The eye socket, hairline and hand have birdshot pellets lodged in them, too. If you look closely -- and strangers occasionally sidle up to him to do just that -- the accident's remnants are evident; there's a tiny bump in each spot.

Every so often, for months afterward, some of the lead in Whittington's body worked its way to the surface. But many pieces remain too deeply embedded to remove, including one near his heart. At 82, Whittington knows he will live the rest of his days with about 30 pieces of shot inside him. Somehow, he jokes, he can get through a metal detector without causing a commotion.

"For Whittington, the accident was not just physically traumatic but introduced chaos into his orderly life. Reporters camped outside the hospital, where he spent a week in intensive care. Someone posed as a member of the hospital's staff and tried to sneak into his room to take a photo, necessitating a security detail at his door. When he was released a week later, a battered and exhausted Whittington did the apologizing: "My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week."

HE APOLOGIZED TO CHAINY?

How F'ked up is that?

"No one in the vice president's entourage said a word about it publicly until the next morning, when Katharine Armstrong, the daughter of the ranch's owner, spoke with a reporter from a local newspaper. Armstrong blamed Whittington for blundering into Cheney's line of fire, a comment that White House spokesman Scott McClellan repeated later that day. Investigators didn't speak to Cheney until the next morning, and Cheney didn't address the issue in public until four days later. In a TV interview on Fox News back in Washington, he took responsibility for the shooting ("Ultimately, I am the guy who pulled the trigger . . . ") but offered no apologies.

What an arsehole...

How do you know he didn't apologize to him personally?

Dick Cheney is an arrogant SOB who's unlikely to apologize to anyone for any of the myriad things he's done wrong. Why are you surprised?

And you know him personally?

Like I said before. How do you know he didn't personally apologize to him?

Do we have to know Darth Vadar personally? Geez...and IF the arsehole did apologize it'd been news by now. Let us know when you find it...

Mr. Whittington is a lawyer. Most other lawyers should get the same treatment.

HUmmm.

Makes the story suspect.

"The victim was first said to have minor wounds but a recent story pointed out that Mt Whittington was close to losing his life with buckshot near his heart, and to boot had a heart attack while in the hospital.

Since Dick Cheney shot him, Harry Whittington's aim has been to move on

"Whittington sweeps a hand up to his dusky face and points near his right eye, then to the right side of his forehead. The eye socket, hairline and hand have birdshot pellets lodged in them, too. If you look closely -- and strangers occasionally sidle up to him to do just that -- the accident's remnants are evident; there's a tiny bump in each spot. "

There is very little possibility that buckshot which hit in the upper (bony) portion of the head (i.e forehead, eye socket and hairline) could have also hit the heart. (there is also little chance that buckshot on the surface in those areas could have 'migrated' to the heart.

Spin is simply another word for lie.

Why must some persist in bringing up such nonsense over and over ad naeusem.

"Nonsense"? "spin"? "lies"? Exactly the defense here...this whole story was covered up...Whittington nearly died from Chainy's stupid actions...yet he will not apologize. He shot the man and DID NOT APOLOGIZE....shows the morals of this man, clearly.

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"The greatest risk facing Harry Whittington, 78, the lawyer shot by Vice President Cheney in a hunting accident, is that a shotgun pellet lodged near his heart could travel elsewhere and cause more damage, doctors said Tuesday.

The pellet apparently migrated to Whittington's heart, causing heart rhythm disturbances and the muscle damage that signals a "silent" heart attack, David Blanchard, emergency room director at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial in Corpus Christi, Texas, told reporters Tuesday in a briefing.

"We knew that he had some birdshot very close to the heart from the get-go," he said. "There's always the risk they can move."

Doctors said it would be riskier to remove the pellet, causing more damage, than to leave it in place in the hope that the body will safely wall it off with scar tissue.

Blanchard said Cheney's shotgun blast peppered Whittington's face, neck and chest with anywhere from a few to 200 pellets, each one less than a tenth of an inch in diameter. Because pellets are small, their location is hard to pinpoint."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-14-cheney-whittington_x.htm

"The shotgun sprayed upward of 200 birdshot pellets at Whittington, causing scores of wounds. His facial lacerations were the most dramatically bloody, but the injuries to his neck and chest were the most serious. Four days after being hit, the birdshot near his heart prompted it to beat erratically, forcing him back into the intensive care unit. Doctors said Whittington suffered a mild heart attack; he thinks it was something less, a heart "event."

Still, the injuries were more dire than previously disclosed. Whittington suffered a collapsed lung. He underwent invasive exploratory surgery, as doctors probed his vital organs for signs of damage. The load from Cheney's gun came close to, but didn't damage, the carotid artery in his neck. A rupture could have been fatal, particularly since it took the better part of an hour to transport him from the vast Armstrong ranch to the Kingsville hospital"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/dick_cheneys_shooting_victim_s.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10

Now I am owed an apology...lol. If the truth hurts then it only hurts the liars. If Whittington had died DICK would have faced manslaughter charges. The LEAST he could do is APOLOGIZE.

They say ignorance is bliss. There is no law requiring anyone to make a PUBLIC apology for something like this. When you can find something with Whittington actually saying Cheney didn't apologize to him then you may have a story. Until then the whole post and negativity towards Cheney is just rediculas. If you don't like the man post a story of TRUTH.

i don't understand why it would matter to anyone anyway....

I explained to a frenchman yesterday that americans tend to be stuck in a world of tunnelvision where reality only includes what the media reports and ONLY the way the media reports it


I agree, public persona dont owe me an apology for their private screwups rather they be cheating on their wife or shooting a friend in the face,,,,

A person of integrity would apologize...but I would not expect DICK to do the right thing...since he's a traitor to this country anyway.

Oct. 15, 2010

"In Dick Cheney's book, love -- or friendship, for that matter -- means never having to say you're sorry. Harry Whittington is still waiting for an apology after being shot by the 69-year-old former vice-president on a duck-hunting trip in 2006.

Whittington, an 82-year-old Texas lawyer, took 30 rounds of metal birdshot and landed in intensive care, where he had a mild heart attack and collapsed lung.

No Cheney Apology Due: Whittington Already Did It
Researchers Say Victims Are 'Blind' When it Comes to Sincerity, But Outsiders Are Not

"Don't you remember his friend apologized for being in the way," said comedian Harry Shearer, who is the voice of multiple characters on television's "The Simpsons," and podcasts "Apology of the Weak" on NPR's "Le Show."

"A guy apologizes for being shot in the face? I think Dick is off the hook for that," he said. "There's only one apology per incident."

"It's one of the top five apologies of all time: 'Please do it again," said Shearer. "Hurt me some more, Dick.'"

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dick-cheney-apology-harry-whittington-researchers/story?id=11884061

I don't need this story to see Dick Cheney for what he is.

Why appologize to a lawyer??

this whole post is pointless...

Yet...here you are again...ya must be part of the rewirting of history that's going on to save these low life POS's legacies.

i never liked cheney or bush...i just think this is a pointless post..
would your life be any different if he did apologize? would you be able to sleep at nights then?

It is hard to believe that anyone would be dumb enough to think that a gun would be loaded with buckshot on a bird hunt, much less that a birdshot pellet could "be lodged near the heart". Bird shot can pierce the skin at short range but could hardly penetrate deep enough to pass the rib cage. And since some bird shot was obviously in the lawyer's head, there is ZERO chance that any buckshot hit anywhere.

As Adventurebegins has already pointed out ...

spin is just another word for lie.

please explain how buckshot hitting in the head leads to a conclusion that it didnt hit ANYWHERE?