Cheney makes West Virginia incest joke

June 2nd, 2008 by Erica

The Associated Press reported today that Dick Cheney took a shot (pun intended) at West Virginia. It turns out there are Cheneys on both sides of his family.

“And we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney quipped.

“You can say those things when you’re not running for re-election.”

Haha. Hilarious. I hope someone takes the liberty of adding Vice President Cheney to the definition of “inbred” at Urban Dictionary.

UPDATE: Cheney has apologized. Here’s the Huffington Post’s coverage of his monumental gaffe. My favorite West Virginia politician response to the whole debacle is definitely Rep. Nick Rahall’s, as reported in The Washington Post’s blog:

“We may owe the vice president a debt of gratitude for yet another great West Virginia slogan: Dick Cheney is not from here,” Rahall told us.

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