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Click Here ___ "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. There was so much snow in Washington, DC, Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear. Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent."
Jon Stewart ," Comedy Central: "Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted -- it's just not worth it."
Craig Ferguson ," CBS: "He is a lawyer and he got shot in the face. Finally there's a secret the vice president's office can keep." "Apparently the reason they didn't release the information right away is they said we had to get the facts right.
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