Harry Whittington emerged from the hospital, his face bruised and scabbed, and apologized to the man who shot him. It was like something from the Dark Age, a peasant kissing the boots of the Lord who beat him. Or accidentally beat him.

Not so many years ago the Right Wing yipped and yapped about a president caught in a sexual indiscretion. "What do we tell the children?" they asked.

Now, I think, is a time to really ask ourselves that question. Do we want American children to grow up apologizing to those who do them harm? Is that what we've become, this nation of rugged individualists?

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I thought it may help to provide a little background on political hunting in Texas. It's everything you think it is, and more. I've actually been on these hunts, as a journalist, staffer, and consultant.

The closest I've ever come to witnessing the horror of a downed hunter was many years ago, not too far from Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of Harry Whittington. A reporter accidentally shot a jeep with his rifle. The jeep was empty. The jeep's radiator was blown to shit.

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I thought it may help to provide a little background on political hunting in Texas. It's everything you think it is, and more. I've actually been on these hunts, as a journalist, staffer, and consultant.

The closest I've ever come to witnessing the horror of a downed hunter was many years ago, not too far from Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of Harry Whittington. A reporter accidentally shot a jeep with his rifle. The jeep was empty. The jeep's radiator was blown to shit.

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The Bushies really showed their true stripes today.   "Compassionate conservatism" was no where to be found as laughing and joking about a man being shot was the order of the day.  

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