Tuesday, February 14, 2006

[POLITICS] What I found most interesting about Jon Stewart's ribbing of the VP last night was his reporting that the "quail hunt" was really a canned quail shoot. Stewart allowed as how the quail were farm-raised and released from cages -- the VP's party barely had to get out of their cars. I'm inclined to believe him because making up stuff is not Stewart's m.o. He generally doesn't need to.

This tidbit seems nowhere to be found in the Times or WaPo, and yet I think it goes as much to character as the foolish secretiveness. To my mind, you can think hunting animals with guns is barbaric, or you can think that hunting is something that's human nature: we have always hunted. I'll accept either. I'm one of those so-long-as-you-eat-it types.

But canned game shoots disgust me. If you want to shoot deer, go up into the mountains at an ungodly early hour and track them down on foot. If all you want to do is blaze away at a moving target, shoot skeet. Or buy a PS2.

It is not too far of a stretch to see the same attitude towards governing: pick only the easy, tame targets (like Democrats) and blaze away at them, while letting the wild animals roam free.

But maybe that's just me.

11:48 AM

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But canned game shoots disgust me. If you want to shoot deer, go up into the mountains at an ungodly early hour and track them down on foot. If all you want to do is blaze away at a moving target, shoot skeet. Or buy a PS2.


It's that same idea that so disgusts me about those fox hunts that the British aristrocracy hold so dear. Terrified animals let out of cages are immediately chased by a pack of hound dogs and bored millionaires with guns on horseback. When the dogs finally catch the poor creature, it is ripped to shreds or shot dead. This is a very sore subject with me, one that I intend to explore on my TV series in the years ahead.

By  Kelly J. Crawford, at 1:28 PM  

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