Vice President Cheney Makes Offensive Remark About West Virginia
Joke about incest may help Democratic candidate win state
Vice President Dick Cheney made a controversial remark about West Virginia during a speech made in Washington on Monday.
Cheney brought up how his wife had recently found out that there were Cheney's on both sides of their family in the 17th century, according to the New York Daily News.
Cheney was then quoted as saying, "So I had Cheney's on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia."
The joke about incest may have caused so much damage that according to the Daily News, Cheney's offensive remark may potentially deliver the state to likely Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in the upcoming elections.
A spokesperson for Vice President Cheney stated that her boss had apologized to West Virginia over, "an inappropriate attempt at humor that he should not have made."
