Shotgun Blast to the Face
First, we’d like to go on the record as saying we have no reason to believe the veep’s hunting incident this past weekend was anything but an accident. Heck, we hunt from time to time too, and we understand that these things happen.
That said, the fact that the vice president of the United States shot a guy in the face with a 28 gauge shotgun simply cannot go unaddressed on this website for what we hope are obvious reasons.
First we can’t help but be reminded of Sopranos Season 4, episode 37: Pine Barrens. Remember this one? Paulie Walnuts and Christopher take a Russian guy out to the Pine Barrens in south Jersey to whack him and wind up getting lost and spending the night in the woods. In the hilarious pic below, Bobby Baccaliere, in full hunting garb has just found the two of them.
Of course, no one gets shot in the face (though the Russian does get capped in back of the head. And, like Cheney’s target– survives!), but we couldn’t resist getting these pictures of Bobby Bacala and Dick Cheney in hunter’s orange juxtaposed on the site.
But let’s run our usual drill a bit more specifically. Guys who shoot people in the face with shotguns: Republicans… or the Mafia?
Well, the closer analogue may be when Tony Soprano gets rid of Tony Blundetto at the end of Season 5. Here’s how the Sopranos website describes the sequence:
“Tony B. is still at Uncle Pat’s farmhouse, awaiting a message from Tony S. Soon it comes: as he steps onto the porch carrying groceries, Tony S. emerges from around a corner and fires a single twelve-gauge shotgun cartridge into his cousin’s forehead.”
Yeah, that sounds just about right. Now, before the hatemail starts pouring in, remember: we acknowledge that Cheney’s situation was an accident. But other than motive and, maybe, range, these situations are pretty similar, no?