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The speaker reflects on Dick Cheney’s death, noting they knew him well and express a stance on death rather than offering a conventional obituary. They emphasize reverence for death, describing it as mysterious and something to acknowledge with humility, insisting they don’t criticize people when they die.
As a charitable aside, the speaker says Cheney was “an amazing fly caster,” capable of dropping a dry fly into the top of a beer bottle at about 40 feet, which the speaker, a dry fly fisherman, regards as impressive. They mention having hunted with Cheney and describe him as a good shot when he was not drinking. The speaker recalls the 2006 shooting of Harry Whittington, stating Cheney “shot Harry Whittington in the face,” and adds the caveat that if the target had been a quail rather than a lawyer from Austin, the quail would have been dead.
The account continues with details about Harry Whittington, noting he “took quite a few pellets from the twenty eighth that day” and that he was a tough man who lived another twenty years. The speaker then comments on Cheney’s family, noting that Cheney “raised a really repulsive daughter,” which the speaker characterizes as bad, and contrasts this with their own family situation, mentioning they have daughters who are “just fine people” and that they are more proud of them than anything in their life.
Towards the end, the speaker makes a provocative personal remark about Liz Cheney, saying that if they had a daughter like Liz Cheney, they don’t believe in suicide but would consider it, followed by an exclamation (“Oh, wow”).