Jay Nordlinger at National Review points out the doubly amazing hypocrisy of a campaign by a man whose wife is one of the richest people in America and whose campaign website proudly proclaims his pheasant-hunting prowess making jokes about millionaire Vice- President Cheney hunting pheasants.

On Tuesday, I twitted John Kerry spokesman David Wade for saying -- with regard to a pheasant-hunting Dick Cheney -- "The Bush administration says the economy is improving, but their millionaire vice president has to hunt for food." I thought that John Kerry's spokesman shouldn't be talking about millionaires. But many, many readers reminded me that he ought not to be talking about pheasant hunting, either. Kerry did a photo-op pheasant hunt, and proudly records it on his website.

Senator John Kerry blasted away at Howard Dean on Friday, accusing him of currying favor with the National Rifle Association and opposing an assault-weapons ban that Mr. Kerry and other supporters of gun control fought for in the 1990's.

Then Mr. Kerry took his 12-gauge shotgun and blew two pheasants out of the sky in two shots.

Mr. Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat running for president, has been an off-again-on- again hunter since the age of 12. He arrived at lunchtime for a long-planned pheasant shoot here on the cold plains of central Iowa.

[ permalink, http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/03.12.18c.htm . Comments: Erasmusen@yahoo.com. ]

To return to Eric Rasmusen's weblog, click http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/0.rasmusen.htm.