| Washington DC newspapers ask, "Did Dick Cheney just hand West Virginia to the Democrats, or what?"
Not likely, because the Mountain State has been pretty dedicated to George Bush.
The comment came after Cheney made an incest joke about the state.
But Cheney's off-the-cuff remark at the National Press Club yesterday will rub a few folks the wrong way in the Mountain State.
Most are sick and tired of hearing West Virginia incest jokes.
Cheney was at the Press Club to congratulate this year's winners of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting.
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 then 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 comment.
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, he said.
"So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia," he quipped.
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