Vice President Dick Cheney was trying to be funny on Monday, but he ended up offending West Virginia as he discussed how he was distantly related to Democrat Barack Obama, and new family-tree history discovered by his wife, Lynne. Here's the AP story on the gaffe.
I'll give you a taste of what set West Virginians off today:
Cheney said that when his wife, Lynne, was doing research on a book, she discovered that his grandmother was descended from a man named Richard Cheney. "So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family.""And we don't even live in West Virginia."
Oh, my. Do you think he'd like to reel that line back in? But Cheney isn't running for anything, so maybe he's not too worried about the fallout. Besides, the population of West Virginia is only 1.8 million, and Cheney has a policy of only apologizing when he angers more than 10 million people at one sitting.
That's funny. Of course, if a comedian said it, everybody would laugh at it and s/he wouldn't apologize. Let's stop being so sensitive about things that some folks don't consider p.c.
Holy cow, Albert, are you really advising that we hold the Vice President to the same standards as a comedian?...I think you’re watching too much TV.
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WHAT A LOW LIFE!!!
UP YOURS CHENEY!
PROUD WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN!
I must be dense, but I don't get the joke which made the self-proclaimed Proud West Virginia Citizen
(fm)resort to gutter language.