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Article: Dick Cheney's hunting accident paints a big bull's-eye for comics
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- Daily Breeze
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- February 15, 2006
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TODAYTelevision talk shows took aim Monday at Vice President Dick
Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion.
Here are a few of the jokes.
"Late Show with David Letterman," CBS:
* "Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located
weapons of mass destruction: It's Dick Cheney."
* "But here is the sad part -- before the trip, Donald Rumsfeld
had denied the guy's request for body armor."
* "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney."
* "The guy who got gunned down, he is a Republican lawyer and a
big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by
wads of laundered cash. So he's fine. He took a little in the
wallet."
"The ...