Dick Cheney Shoots His Friend In The Face (2006)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It’s February 20th. This day in 2006, the news — and the jokes — are swirling about the incident that took place earlier in the month, when Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting partner Harry Whittington on a Texas ranch.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss why it took so long for the news of the incident to come out, why Whittington apologized to Cheney at a press conference — and why it took so long for this podcast to talk about this moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.0 | This day, February 20th, 2006, and let me just say to you, listeners, if you heard a few |
| 0:17.7 | episodes ago, I bemoaned the fact that we had once again missed the date on which |
| 0:22.3 | Vice President Dick Cheney shot a business associate in the face while hunting and we said |
| 0:27.3 | God we got to find a way to do that story we got to find a way and we did not wait a whole year to do it |
| 0:32.1 | We just have to wait nine days because we are now doing it |
| 0:35.2 | February 20th 2006 nine days after that hunting accident. The story is bursting out into the open all over the political press, the Sunday shows, |
| 0:44.0 | eventually a news conference in which the man who was shot in the face |
| 0:47.9 | apologized to the man who shot him in the face, who happened to be the vice president of the United States. |
| 0:53.2 | So here we are and I will just say that if there's anything we do on this day in |
| 0:57.2 | esoteric political history is we keep our promises and we promised that we |
| 1:02.1 | wanted to do this episode. We're all wanted to do this episode. |
| 1:03.0 | We're all thrilled to do this episode. |
| 1:04.6 | And we have a hook in part because, yeah, |
| 1:07.4 | it took a while for this story to trickle out, |
| 1:08.9 | which is where we will start |
| 1:10.1 | as soon as I introduce our usual guest, |
| 1:12.0 | Nickelhammer of Vanderbilt, and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. |
| 1:15.4 | Hello there. |
| 1:16.4 | Hello. |
| 1:17.4 | Hey there. |
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