LadyMod at scam.com
10-30-2007, 09:59 PM
They really should keep this guy locked up.....LOL....I wonder if he missed seeing all the Confederate flags when he came to Texas too.
Cheney’s Staff Says He Never Saw Confederate Flag (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/cheneys-staff-says-he-never-saw-confederate-flag/?hp)
By Sewell Chan
Vice President Dick Cheney is embroiled in yet another hunting-related controversy.
The vice president made a daylong hunting trip on Monday to the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club, an exclusive mountainside establishment on 4,000 acres in Union Vale, N.Y., about 15 miles east of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County. Only members and their guests may hunt on the property; an annual membership is said to cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Reporters who covered Mr. Cheney’s visit on Monday — including Fernanda Santos of The Times — were not permitted to enter the grounds of the hunting estate. But at least one eagle-eyed photographer captured images of a Confederate battle flag — about 3 feet by 5 feet in dimension — hanging in plain view in a garage attached to the club’s headquarters. The Daily News captured images of the flag. The New York Post stoked the controversy today with the headline: “V.P.’s Hunting Gear: Dead-Eye Dick Cheney in Dixie-Flag Flap.”
In a brief interview this morning, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney told us that neither the vice president nor anyone in his entourage had seen the flag.
“Until this issue was raised by the press last night, no one in our office was aware there was such a flag,” said the spokeswoman, Megan M. Mitchell. “The vice president did not see a flag, nor did anyone on his staff traveling with him in New York.”
Asked whether Mr. Cheney had an opinion about the flag’s being displayed, Ms. Mitchell replied, “Bottom line, he didn’t see the flag.” Asked whether the vice president had views in general on the appropriateness of displaying the Confederate battle flag, she said, “I haven’t had a chance to talk with him about that.”
In February 2006, the vice president shot and wounded Harry M. Whittington, a lawyer and campaign contributor, while the two men were hunting quail at a South Texas ranch. Mr. Whittington suffered a minor heart attack but recovered. The shooting — and some subsequent miscommunication — caused some political heartburn for the White House. The Times published a detailed chronology of the shooting. Mr. Cheney took full responsibility for the shooting.
Officials at the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club have not responded yet to a telephone message requesting comment.
The hunting club is best known for its pheasants and ducks. According to “The Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club History,” a history written and published by two of the club’s members, Betty and Bill White, Clove Valley tried to introduce quail at least twice, with no success.
The Rev. Al Sharpton issued a statement last night that read, in part:
I call on Vice President Cheney to leave immediately, denounce the club, and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate, and murder to black people. In this age of Jena, La., events and hangman nooses all over the country, for the Vice President to relax under the flag of the hangman nooses is an unpardonable insult to all Americans, particularly blacks. He ought to leave immediately, call for the flag to be brought down at once, and apologize for being connected to an institution that would be insensitive enough to fly it in the first place. What is interesting to me is that this is not even in the South that it is flying. The club owners must identify with the philosophy of the Confederacy because they can’t say that they are a historic club that 200 years ago was a part of the Confederacy since New York was never a Confederate state.
In a phone interview today, Mr. Sharpton elaborated a bit further. He expressed incredulity that Mr. Cheney’s security detail would not have noticed — or been bothered by — the presence of the flag. “It is hard to believe, with a security team and detail searching everywhere the vice president goes in advance, that he would not want to know how this was there or how the security team could not have seen this as inappropriate and insulting,” he said, adding, “You either have security incompetence or security insensitivity.”
Mr. Sharpton said it was not enough for Mr. Cheney’s staff to say the vice president had not seen the flag. “He should disavow the flag and the location,” Mr. Sharpton said, referring to the country club. “Americans need to know where he stands on this.”
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Cheney’s Staff Says He Never Saw Confederate Flag (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/cheneys-staff-says-he-never-saw-confederate-flag/?hp)
By Sewell Chan
Vice President Dick Cheney is embroiled in yet another hunting-related controversy.
The vice president made a daylong hunting trip on Monday to the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club, an exclusive mountainside establishment on 4,000 acres in Union Vale, N.Y., about 15 miles east of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County. Only members and their guests may hunt on the property; an annual membership is said to cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Reporters who covered Mr. Cheney’s visit on Monday — including Fernanda Santos of The Times — were not permitted to enter the grounds of the hunting estate. But at least one eagle-eyed photographer captured images of a Confederate battle flag — about 3 feet by 5 feet in dimension — hanging in plain view in a garage attached to the club’s headquarters. The Daily News captured images of the flag. The New York Post stoked the controversy today with the headline: “V.P.’s Hunting Gear: Dead-Eye Dick Cheney in Dixie-Flag Flap.”
In a brief interview this morning, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney told us that neither the vice president nor anyone in his entourage had seen the flag.
“Until this issue was raised by the press last night, no one in our office was aware there was such a flag,” said the spokeswoman, Megan M. Mitchell. “The vice president did not see a flag, nor did anyone on his staff traveling with him in New York.”
Asked whether Mr. Cheney had an opinion about the flag’s being displayed, Ms. Mitchell replied, “Bottom line, he didn’t see the flag.” Asked whether the vice president had views in general on the appropriateness of displaying the Confederate battle flag, she said, “I haven’t had a chance to talk with him about that.”
In February 2006, the vice president shot and wounded Harry M. Whittington, a lawyer and campaign contributor, while the two men were hunting quail at a South Texas ranch. Mr. Whittington suffered a minor heart attack but recovered. The shooting — and some subsequent miscommunication — caused some political heartburn for the White House. The Times published a detailed chronology of the shooting. Mr. Cheney took full responsibility for the shooting.
Officials at the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club have not responded yet to a telephone message requesting comment.
The hunting club is best known for its pheasants and ducks. According to “The Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club History,” a history written and published by two of the club’s members, Betty and Bill White, Clove Valley tried to introduce quail at least twice, with no success.
The Rev. Al Sharpton issued a statement last night that read, in part:
I call on Vice President Cheney to leave immediately, denounce the club, and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate, and murder to black people. In this age of Jena, La., events and hangman nooses all over the country, for the Vice President to relax under the flag of the hangman nooses is an unpardonable insult to all Americans, particularly blacks. He ought to leave immediately, call for the flag to be brought down at once, and apologize for being connected to an institution that would be insensitive enough to fly it in the first place. What is interesting to me is that this is not even in the South that it is flying. The club owners must identify with the philosophy of the Confederacy because they can’t say that they are a historic club that 200 years ago was a part of the Confederacy since New York was never a Confederate state.
In a phone interview today, Mr. Sharpton elaborated a bit further. He expressed incredulity that Mr. Cheney’s security detail would not have noticed — or been bothered by — the presence of the flag. “It is hard to believe, with a security team and detail searching everywhere the vice president goes in advance, that he would not want to know how this was there or how the security team could not have seen this as inappropriate and insulting,” he said, adding, “You either have security incompetence or security insensitivity.”
Mr. Sharpton said it was not enough for Mr. Cheney’s staff to say the vice president had not seen the flag. “He should disavow the flag and the location,” Mr. Sharpton said, referring to the country club. “Americans need to know where he stands on this.”
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