Maybe, as First Lady Laure Bush put it, "he was done with the paparazzi."
He's probably lucky Dick Cheney didn't shoot him. :)
As an aside, what Barney was probably concerned about what all that stuff in the reporter's left hand.
Handy identification chart for Vice-Presidential hunting trips: Visual Hunting Aid

From here: WSOCTV.com - Charlotte News - Cheney Shoots, Injures Man While Hunting
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's spokeswoman said Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a hunting trip in Texas.
The accident happened at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas. The property's owner said the 78-year-old victim is "alert and doing fine," after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets while trying to shoot a bird.
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president is with the victim and his wife at the hospital.
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