Comics Keep Taking Shots At Cheney
Letterman, Others Still Have Him In Sights
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Play CBS Video Video The Joke's Still On Cheney "The Late Show's" David Letterman continued his onslaught of jokes on the hunting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney and lawyer Harry Whittington.
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Video Letterman Pokes Fun At Cheney "The Late Show's" David Letterman and Biff Henderson had a little fun with Vice President Dick Cheney after the shooting of lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting trip.
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Video Letterman's Top 10 On Cheney David Letterman's latest Top 10 list was aimed at Vice President Cheney, who continues to face ribbing over the shooting of lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting trip.
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Vice President Cheney (AP)
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Interactive Potshots At Cheney The vice president's hunting accident is joke fodder for comedians, actors and fellow politicians.
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Interactive Second In Command A closer look at Vice President Dick Cheney's career and his much-publicized health problems.
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Interactive Guns In America State-by-state gun laws and death rates, maps of recent school and workplace shootings and facts on who's at risk.
After firing away Monday (video), they kept it up Tuesday.
David Letterman (video) was among them.
Among his quips, on the "Late Show with David Letterman" was this one: "Good news today. So far, Dick Cheney has not shot anybody."
Jay Leno said, "I'm surprised Dick Cheney loves to hunt so much. I mean, the five times the government tried to give him a gun (draft him), he got a deferrment." That crack came on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."
And on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," he said, "The bird shot the vice president used to shoot the man ... lodged in the man's body and went into his heart and caused him to suffer a minor heart attack. Mr. Wittington is doing fine but, based on this development, we're gonna downgrade the condition of the story from, 'incredibly hilarious' to 'still funny but, ehhh, a little sad.' " Stewart showed a graphic with those descriptions in different colors, similar to the old terror alert warning color codes.
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