{"id":4218,"date":"2007-12-28T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/huckabee-shoots-over-the-heads.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:41:00","slug":"huckabee-shoots-over-the-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/huckabee-shoots-over-the-heads.html","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee shoots over the heads of the reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidently, he violated gun safety etiquette<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition<\/a> in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. “Because I want to survive all the way through this,” Huckabee replied<\/a>, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.<\/p>\n

Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads. <\/p>\n

This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form. <\/p>\n

Your Swamp correspondent, the son of a longtime hunter education instructor, grew up plying the corn rows and stream banks of rural Oregon with a Labrador retriever and a Mossberg 20-gauge pump shotgun. On our hunts for pheasant, grouse and quail, merely swinging a gun barrel in the general direction of another person was grounds for day-long banishment to the truck (which smelled like wet dog).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nEven if he isn’t a poseur like Kerry, this whole thing is such a poseur thing to do. It reeks of pandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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