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Monday, June 02, 2008

"Shooter" disses West Virginia


WaPo's Mary Ann Akers is wondering if Dick Cheney actually managed to hand West Virginia to Barack Obama this year:


"Cheney was at the Press Club to congratulate this year's winners of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. During a question-and-answer session toward the end of the luncheon, someone asked the vice president about his wife Lynne Cheney's revelation on MSNBC last year that "Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins."

The questioner jokingly asked the vice president if he and Obama were going to have a family reunion, to which Cheney replied he would "have no objections" though he said he doubted Obama would want one - "certainly not before November."

Then came the offensive punch line. Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne's memoir "Blue Skies, No Fences" last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father's and his mother's side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother's side, the vice president said.

"So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia," Cheney quipped."



West Virginians of all stripes were outraged:

-Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.):

"This is exactly the type of stereotyping that we don't need from our elected officials," Capito tells the Sleuth. "It's disrespectful, and it's certainly not funny. The Vice President should know better than to make a remark like this one. We all work hard to further West Virginia's good name, only to have comments like this tarnish it. As a proud state, I can say we are disappointed."


-Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.):

"We may owe the vice president a debt of gratitude for yet another great West Virginia slogan: Dick Cheney is not from here."


-Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va):

"That a man who has ascended to the seat of Vice President of the United States would openly display such contempt and astounding ignorance toward his own countrymen is an insult to all Americans. Now that he or the Administration he represents no longer needs their vote, Mr. Cheney apparently feels that he is now free to mock and belittle the people of West Virginia. With his trademark arrogance, the Vice President even added 'You can say those things when you're not running for re-election.'"


"This pitiful comment is not entirely surprising when you consider the source. Vice President Cheney's words reflect the attitude of an administration and a party that says what they must to get elected and then turns their backs on those they promised to represent."

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9 Comments:

Blogger Parson said...

That's kind of funny.

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 6:36 PM  
Blogger John Good said...

I double dog dare him to repeat it anywhere IN West Virginia. . .

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 7:27 PM  
Blogger Omnipotent Poobah said...

I was born there so I've gotten used to it. Besides, where the hell does some asshat from Wyoming get off making jokes about West Virginians...wait a minute, that came out all wrong.

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 8:33 PM  
Blogger John Good said...

poobah - Prove yer a WesVegan. .smile! Wow. . .I just lost a shitload of karma points!! ;)

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 9:59 PM  
Blogger Larry said...

I wonder if in his arrogance he knows or even cares that he offended many there.

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 10:07 PM  
Blogger John Good said...

Larry - I seriously doubt that "Shooter" gives a rat's ass about anybody who earns less than 100k per year. . .

title="comment permalink">June 02, 2008 10:14 PM  
Blogger enigma4ever said...

that Dick - shooter as you call him made that comment- wow..yeah- I am with you..let's see him say it THERE....

title="comment permalink">June 03, 2008 12:07 AM  
Blogger Sewmouse said...

And Cheney's response to all of those quotes?

"So??"

I suspect

title="comment permalink">June 03, 2008 7:53 AM  
Blogger John Good said...

Enigma- Goodbye and good riddance!

Sew - He actually denies saying that now, despite the video evidence.

title="comment permalink">June 03, 2008 9:27 PM  

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