Cheney In Confederate Flag Flap

(CBS/AP)  Dick Cheney's latest hunting expedition has produced controversy of a different sort for the vice president.

Cheney became the butt of jokes for shooting a companion during a Texas hunting trip in 2006. This time, two New York newspapers, the Post and the Daily News, reported that a Confederate flag was hung from a garage at the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club, where the vice president went bird hunting on Monday.

The photo was shown to New York City civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who issued a statement demanding that the vice president "leave immediately, denounce the club, and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people."

The Post reported that the flag was clearly visible, but Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said neither Cheney nor anyone on his staff saw such a flag at the hunt club.

It was Cheney's second visit to the Dutchess County club, about 70 miles north of New York City. The previous trip was in the fall of 2001.

In 2006, Cheney peppered attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot while quail hunting in Texas. The vice president came under fire for not going public with the incident for four days.

The vice president later called it "one of the worst days of my life" and said, "The image of him falling is something I'll never ever be able to get out of my mind."

The shooting was ruled an accident. Whittington was hospitalized for six days.

Cheney has gone hunting at least a couple of times since the accident.

[gunnerv1]

MCVet- You need to take a few History lessons. Slavery would not have existed if the North would have let the South Industrialize but the North wanted to keep the South an Agrarian Society to fuel the Industrialize North. If you want to blame slavery on someone, put it on the British and the Portuguese. It all started from Sugar Cane and Rum. PS, Use your VA Benefits, go back to school.

[sgtrds]

Good thing today''''s liberals weren''''t around in World WarII,
or else we''''d be speaking German by now.
Afterall, Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.

Posted by mocalleo at 09:33 AM : Oct 31, 2007

Hey dumbas*s, FDR was the most liberal president in American history, before WWII or since. Seems we did just fine with a liberal running the country.

[candide777]

Good thing today''''s liberals weren''''t around in World WarII,
or else we''''d be speaking German by now.
Afterall, Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.
Posted by mocalleo at 09:33 AM : Oct 31, 2007

Actually, a dimwit like you wouldn''t be around at all. You wouldn''t have made the cut. Far from the Ubermensch, you''re simply an ape. But don''t worry, you''re in good company. GWB wouldn''t have made the cut either.

[mocalleo]

A Confederate flag in New York ?????

Sounds like a liberal goose-stepping nazi set-up to me.

ROTFLMAO, Seig Heil, Hillary

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Good thing today''s liberals weren''t around in World WarII,
or else we''d be speaking German by now.
Afterall, Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor.

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[glaswolf]

There are probably a billion lives wallowing in some form of tragedy, too many to be concerned with. Those who make other peoples misery a business profiteer on their pathos. What exactly is their reason for being in the US, like how are they being political refugees if they never have any significant culture development of their own. The feed off the dead and dying like ghouls, using misery to vault themselves into selfproclaimed moral authority. If misery is so important to you, why don''t you move to Africa where you can work with the people directly, 24/7 until you die of their disease, their hunger, or their war. Take your false gods with you, America needs peace ... a break from this misery infested pathos impregnated distorted view of reality and the twisting of normal purposes of life. It''s Halloween, enjoy our Americanism for a change, or leave.

[glaswolf]

The Confederate Flag is a battle flag, and those who condemn it are guilty of genocide in my book, I don''t care what color you are ... denying soldiers their battle flags is wrong. Personally, I don''t trust southerners who are afraid to fly their battle flags ... if their own history cannot trust them, neither can we. Germans who turn on the swaztika disgust me, too ... afterall, why would people turn on an indian symbol of 4 directions, and the basket weave ... unless they hate indians? By the way, Mexicans speak espanol, it is a hybrid trade language built from Nauatl and Castillian Latin ... we''re not black spaniards like cubans and puerto ricans, we''re indian stock. We don''t assimilate, black spaniards are assimilationists ... we are opposites, not allies. Non indians should get an education which is not politically correct. Politically correct people are as low on my measures as judeo christian rightists who feed off the holocaust death while neglecting the wisdom of the Torah. If Cheney has a problem, it is denying the past, as opposed to protecting the future. In war, all marshal peoples have rights to their battle flags, those contesting should be deported beyond the great ponds.

[brianbwb-2009]

"...And now revisionists are seeking to turn a flag of defiance into a flag of slavery and oppression...."
Posted by Sevenveils

It might very well have been a rallying point for rebellion, but, if you were one of those feeling the sting of the whip, or had your children sold right after nursing was over, or watched your loved ones burning on a tree, your self and your loved ones raped, or otherwise a victim of people carrying this flag, would it then mean the same thing to you as it does for them?

Your post, like many others here, shows absolutely no regard for the victims of inhumanity, no acknowledgment of their existance as human, only the point of view that these people thought their commission of inhumanity was a "right", to be defended.

Although the freedom granted was done for political motives rather than humanistic ones, one often doesn''t care where relief comes from, as long as it comes.

[smirk5]

Just like the Mexican flag that Hispanics proudly wave in the southwestern U.S., the Confederate flag is part of the southern redneck''s heritage.

Heritage, not hate.

[watcher269-2009]

Rumor has it that Cheney wears Confederate flag boxers too!

[keithle1]

If there is ANYTHING going on in the state of New York, the POST & DAILY NEWS will find out about it.

I know I''m not supposed to bring up Sharpton''s name because he is such a revered civil rights figure but he really is ridiculous. Such a grandstanding opportunistic attention w h o r e.

"The photo was shown to New York City civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who issued a statement demanding that the vice president "leave immediately, denounce the club, and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people."

I bow to no one in my dislike of Cheney but this is too much.