One thing to be clear on: Dick Cheney wasn’t hunting. He wasn’t doing what Ted Nugent does, or what Indians used to do. Cheney was killing things.

Update: John Cole notes that the linked report is a couple years old. Whether or not this hunting trip was like that “hunting trip” I don’t know.

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