• February 15, 2012

In his best move as vice president since that time he shot an old man in the face with a shotgun, Dick Cheney joked about West Virginian hillbilly incest today at the National Press Club. And now everyone in West Virginia is pissed beyond belief at the vice president, whose long record of lookin’ out for the little man and his farm now comes into question.

Cheney was at the National Press Club to commend the winner of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, which was given to Wonkette for the 5th straight year (we sent several old interns to receive the prize, but they were all getting high on their college sex campuses.) Then a wiseacre reporter asked about that old, tired, eternally rehashed news bit from many months ago that Barack Obama is Dick Cheney’s eighth cousin — perhaps the one that liberated Auschwitz from the Communists?

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.

HEY-O!

West Virginia politicians aren’t laughing at Cheney’s little joke, including his fellow Republican, 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, a 16-term Democratic congressman from West Virginia, was equally as irate. “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.

But West Virginians are really upset that Dick Cheney didn’t take the question seriously enough. Is he related to Obama? Is he a hexadecaroon? ‘Cause West Virginnie’s had enough’a HOO-SSEIN alright!

UPDATE: Dick Cheney apologizes for the first time in his life (although it’s through a spokesman, and it’s fake):

Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride tells us, “The Vice President’s offhand comment was not meant to hurt anyone. On reflection, he concluded that it was an inappropriate attempt at humor that he should not have made. The Vice President apologizes to the people of West Virginia for the inappropriate remark.”

We may not be West Virginians, but the vice president’s smear against one of America’s greatest states offends us, too. Wonkette demands an apology. But knowing this administration, we’ll never see it.

Dick Cheney’s Incest Joke Irks West Virginian Lawmakers [WP/The Sleuth]

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Gopherit v2.0 June 2, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Anyone who has ever been to Wyoming has no doubt most residents have pushed that incest line a time or two. Hell, you probably couldn’t get a date to prom if you didn’t at least seriously consider a cousin. There aren’t a lot of choices.

averyspecialjoedonbakerxmas June 2, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Somewhere amongst the bitters of WV …

“But Hill’ry sed we goan be repeckted”

bitchincamaro June 2, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Vice President Uncle-Daddy should eat hog-trough full of dicks.

bitchincamaro June 2, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Vice President Uncle-Daddy should eat a hog-trough full of dicks.

NoWireHangers June 2, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Haha, West Virigina, you voted for him.

johnbpt June 2, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Hey, least nobody was killed, which is what usually happens when Cheney turns his attention to you.

ManchuCandidate June 2, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Dick Cheney, I have seen Jeff Foxworthy and you’re no Larry the Cable Guy!

tunamelt June 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm

[re=3429]johnbpt[/re]: Nobody was killed. Yet.

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Most honest thing to come out of his trap, ever.

AngryBlakGuy June 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm

…see where he screwed up was assuming that W.Virginian inbreed! It is a well known fact that it is KENTUCKYIANS that inbreed and W.VIRGINIANS who are avid goat fukkers! They will forgive you this time but let it happen again Dick!

El Bombastico June 2, 2008 at 6:54 pm

This is like when Polacks make jokes about Slovenians.

loquaciousmusic June 2, 2008 at 6:57 pm

[re=3432]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I know. I was going to say, it would have been nice to see Dick Cheney tell the truth earlier.

Rodney Badger June 2, 2008 at 6:57 pm

To be fair to Dick, the joke was incest-neutral. Just because someone mentions incest does not automatically mean that person is passing judgment on incest.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Does this mean that Dick Cheney is also a Muslim? If so, I’m getting really confused.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I’m sure that Fox News will focus on this for the next three weeks they way they did Obama’s bitter remarks.

tunamelt June 2, 2008 at 7:04 pm

This has nothing to do with anything, but I have to vote again in a primary tomorrow, because the state of California is retarded.

obfuscator June 2, 2008 at 7:04 pm

If West Virginians aren’t offended by knowing that other people think they’re racists, I’m relieved to know that they get all indignant when they’re stereotyped as cousin fuckers.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Either way, Lynne Cheney’s book is starting to make a lot more sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_%28Lynne_Cheney_novel%29

FlakJack June 2, 2008 at 7:05 pm

While I’m surprised he’d admit to it, this long history of family incest would explain a thing or two about both Dick and Lynne Cheney.

Gopherit v2.0 June 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm

[re=3445]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Yes, Hillary, he’s a muslim just like his brother-daddy Barry.

Son of Mark Penn June 2, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Oh man the West Virginian blogosphere* is gonna be lit up with this one.

*or “blogoplane” if you’re in West Virginia

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 7:10 pm

[re=3455]Son of Mark Penn[/re]: Is it possible to blog with tin cans and string?

Tits_LaRue June 2, 2008 at 7:18 pm

WOW… I… I… actually agree with Dick Cheney on something: West Virginia’s Cousinfuckery. Barack Obama really can bring us all together! *sniffle!*

Gopherit v2.0 June 2, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Holy shit. He apologized for it, too. Maybe he and Barry really ARE related!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/06/dick_cheneys_incest_joke_irks.html

iwillsavethispatient June 2, 2008 at 7:19 pm

[re=3455]Son of Mark Penn[/re]: It can’t even be a plane if it’s only got one point. The word you were looking for was “blog”. Or perhaps “them new-fangled internets”.

Tits_LaRue June 2, 2008 at 7:20 pm

[re=3455]Son of Mark Penn[/re]: West Virginian blogosphere… you mean that tree out back with all them fancy words a’carved onnit?

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 7:23 pm

West Virginia would do well to remember that you can’t polish a turd. At the end of the day, no matter how many public relations campaigns you wage, the fact remains that you are still West Virginia and there are just certain opinions that are going to be held about you.

blogfather June 2, 2008 at 7:23 pm

I thought kentucky was king of unclefuckery?

ronaldpagan June 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm

I am so excited to see what Hick Cheney pulls off in the next 6 months. I think he’ll pee on a 15-year-old.

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm

[re=3464]Godless Liberal *[/re]: If people can refer to my city as GAY GAY oh my gawd SO GAY then yup, spot on.

ronaldpagan June 2, 2008 at 7:27 pm

There goes the rest of Cheney’s approval rating…

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm

[re=3468]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I do not know which city is yours, but odds are that I have referred to it as just that.

Son of Mark Penn June 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm

No way Cheney is gonna get picked for McCain’s veep now!

weirdiowasculpture June 2, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Hell, everybody they don’t fuck their cousins in West Virginia. They fuck sheep. Something about their Scottish ancestry.

Texan Bulldoggette June 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Gawd…Dick actually made me laugh. I feel dirty inside now.

tunamelt June 2, 2008 at 7:31 pm

[re=3468]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Oh, are you from San Francisco?

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 7:32 pm

[re=3471]Godless Liberal *[/re]: Sunny SF, land of teh gays. At least we don’t screw our bloodline, though.

RaptorAvatar June 2, 2008 at 7:34 pm

I used to live in West Virginia. All I can say is that the incest there tends to be less prevalent than the stereotypes claim. However, said incest tends to be intergenerational and recreationally-oriented, so really it comes out about even.

Now I live in LA, so pardon me while I go get legally high and marry another dude… (Just kidding, The last person on the west coast who believes in any kind of marriage will be dead by 2012.)

Q June 2, 2008 at 7:34 pm

That West Virginia incest stuff isn’t true?

ronaldpagan June 2, 2008 at 7:35 pm

[re=3449]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: OMG I always forget how much I love Lynne Cheney! What a lesbo. Too bad she can’t write for shit.

Helen, my joy and my beloved,

Why do we stay? I have no reason beyond a few pupils who would miss me briefly, and your life would be infinitely better away from him. Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl. . . .

tunamelt June 2, 2008 at 7:35 pm

[re=3478]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: The Giants suck.

ronaldpagan June 2, 2008 at 7:36 pm

[re=3464]Godless Liberal *[/re]: Especially if your PR campaigns include the phrase “HOO-sein. That don’t sit right with me.”

My home state will always be known for polygamy. So there’s that.

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 7:37 pm

[re=3478]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Jesus Christ. That city is so gay I’m gay by association.

On the other hand, I’m glad you aren’t from WV. My cousin has really packed on the pounds lately, and I’d hate to have suddenly effed her just because I read something on the internets.

edgydrifter June 2, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Were you to point out to a West Virginian that Cheney was referring to cousinfuckery, the West Virginian would say “Oh! Well, that’s OK then. We thought he was talking ’bout incest. Sorry we got so riled up.”

In WV, anyone not dropped from the same womb as yourself is fair game. Incest as a pejorative term is reserved for blood siblings and/or those immediately above and below yourself on the family tree.

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm

[re=3485]tunamelt[/re]: Last year I would say something like “screw you you don’t know what you’re talking about asshole.” However, YA. THEY SURE DO.

At least we have a baseball team. I don’t know what WV even plays. I’m guessing it’s competitive spin the bottle, but only at family reunions.

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm

[re=3487]ronaldpagan[/re]: Meh. Alabama here, so I don’t know what business I have talking shit on West By God Virginia.

tunamelt June 2, 2008 at 7:41 pm

[re=3480]RaptorAvatar[/re]: Yeah, whoo, Los Angeles!

[re=3491]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s a natural reaction, to say Giants suck, to anyone from SF, regardless of whether or not they even like baseball. I actually can’t stop it.

Maj. Major Major Major June 2, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Here’s West Virginia’s forbidden incest clause:

Incest is committed when any female person shall have sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion with her father, brother, son, grandson, grandfather, nephew or uncle.

“Sexual Intercourse” means any act between persons involving penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ by the male sex organ or involving contact between the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another person.

The two Cheneys are probably better suited for Wyoming…

http://www.state.wv.us/WVSCA/jury/crim/incest.htm

blogfather June 2, 2008 at 7:45 pm

@edydrifter- Hey I coined the phrase cousinfuckery(tm) Infact, I invented cousinfuckery!

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm

[re=3472]Son of Mark Penn[/re]:
Isn’t that determined by wether or not Dick is in charge of the Veep search committee?

[re=3483]ronaldpagan[/re]:
How can you criticize that? All the best porn is written by Conservatives. They really know how to get their kink on.

FunkyPalmettoBug June 2, 2008 at 7:56 pm

Anyone remember the joke where a guy bets a bartender that he can piss into a cup on the bar from 20 feet away and it turns out that he bet the guys at the pool table that he could piss all over the bar and the bartender wouldn’t be mad? I think Cheney bet Bob Dole in 1998 than he can get an approval rating lower than Benedict Arnold and not be impeached.

Delicious June 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm

I thought the joke was pretty funny.

Or maybe it was the “HEY-O!”

We should all have an Ed McMahon to punch up our punch lines.

edgydrifter June 2, 2008 at 7:59 pm

[re=3496]blogfather[/re]: That’s sure to get you written up in the society pages.

PS: Afore anyone cracks wise on Oregon, we fuck trees. There, the secret is out.

AudicityofHope June 2, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Dick Cheney should collaborate with Jim Webb for his next book, “Why We Kiss Our Cousins”.

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 8:01 pm

[re=3498]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: See any Jeff Gannon photo.

masterdebater June 2, 2008 at 8:01 pm

He’s never apologized for any of the other things he has done, but feels he must apologize gor this? Well…OK, sure. That makes sense, from a wingnutty perspective, I guess.

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 8:03 pm

I just thought about it, and I do have family on both my mom’s side and my dad’s side with my last name.

So I am deeply offended by this, and if I ever see Dick Cheney, I am going to break my seven-toed foot off in his ass.

publius June 2, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Ahh, beautiful West Virginia: Home of the MLUF* Hall of Fame!

*Major League Uncle Fuckers

Aurelio June 2, 2008 at 8:10 pm

It’s clear that Dick and Dubya don’t give a flying flip what anyone thinks of them anymore. I envy them their psychopathic freedom.

AudicityofHope June 2, 2008 at 8:13 pm

You’re telling me that my webbed hands and feet and crossed eyes have something to do with the fact that my dad and uncle are the same person?

Sacks of Awful June 2, 2008 at 8:13 pm

[re=3456]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Great strides in blogging have come about since WV realized the existence of the MITS Altair a few years ago. It’s a magic blog box that you don’t need to worry about tripping over on the way to the outhouse – can’t say the same for that pesky string and tin can thing.

Them June 2, 2008 at 8:16 pm

[re=3505]masterdebater[/re]: My thoughts as well. Given every sinister thing he had to do with Iraq, secret meetings with energy companies, declaring he’s not part of the Administrative branch of government and therefore above its laws, replying “So?” when asked about Americans considering Iraq a mistake, and what trips him up? Going all Jay Leno all over West Virginia’s ass (of course, Jay would’ve swung his arms wildly in an over-eager effort to really sell the joke).

publius June 2, 2008 at 8:17 pm

A little off topic, but I absolutely LOVE that episode of Futurama where Fry goes back in time and accidentally becomes his own Grandfather, only to get back to the future and realize it has made zero difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of the universe. Classic Futurama.

Whore Diamond in the Rough June 2, 2008 at 8:26 pm

[re=3461]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: He…wait…he… a..pol…o…gized?

We in the end time now.

Johnny_Zhivago June 2, 2008 at 8:40 pm

Rep. Nick Rahall, a 16-term Democratic congressman from West Virginia, was equally as irate. “It may well be that 90% of the voters in my district are my cousins, but that doesn’t mean Mr. Cheney has the right to make fun of us.”

schvitzatura June 2, 2008 at 8:40 pm

Almost heaven, West Virginia
strip mined mountains
run-off laden rivers…

WilhemlaMaher June 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm

[re=3422]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: People live in Wyoming?
Oh dear, I botched my screen name…

loudmouthredhead June 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm

See, when he offends potential GOP ‘sporters, he pinches out an apology…as opposed to the Senate floor, where his “Go Fuck Yourself!” will never evoke contrition.

AxmxZ June 2, 2008 at 9:23 pm

And the good news just keeps on rolling in for W.Va.: Senator Byrd is in the hospital with a fever.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/2/20454/46714/111/527730

SwanSwanH June 2, 2008 at 9:24 pm

Reckon you oughta be looking for a new undisclosed location right about now, Dick.

loudmouthredhead June 2, 2008 at 9:26 pm

OMG the reply button finally showed up for me! Yayz!
[re=3503]AudicityofHope[/re]: That’s terrible :P

Advocatus_Diaboli June 2, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Dick’s joke is so funny that I’m thinking about forgiving him for all the fucked up shit he’s caused.

{thinking}
{thinking}
{hand on chin}

No, I don’t think so. He’s still a major league asshole.

SayItWithWookies June 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm

Hey, West-by-God seceded from my state during the civil war. So they can only be so dumb.

[re=3495]Maj. Major Major Major[/re]: So does this mean that lesbian cousinfuckery is not incest under WV statute? That’s kinda odd.

AudicityofHope June 2, 2008 at 9:34 pm

[re=3535]loudmouthredhead[/re]: I just wanted to use the reply button. Thank you, Wonkette elders!

loudmouthredhead June 2, 2008 at 9:51 pm

I’m guessing we can safely add the Cheneys as another clan in the list including Hatfield & McCoy? Wow!
We just made that gene pool 30% deeper!

loudmouthredhead June 2, 2008 at 9:54 pm

Sigh, WV cousinfuckery(tm) and Dick Cheney. Two more reasons I’m insanely proud to be a white male. Brings a tear to my eye, it does.

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 9:57 pm

At least cousin-sodomy is illegal.

Darehead June 2, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Dick coulda quipped:
“So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in Orange County.”

Cuz, I never dun see so much in-breeding as I dun see in that teevee show, OC.

Godless Liberal * June 2, 2008 at 10:13 pm

Shit, it looks like Robert Byrd caught cancer from Teddy. Or something. He’s in the hospital anyway.

Kingbee June 2, 2008 at 10:18 pm

The ultimate in incest! Cheney fucked himself!

TGY June 2, 2008 at 10:29 pm

So…this means WVa goes from a red state to a blue state, yes? I mean, justice and all..

Also, making jokes about WVirginians: bite me, it’s fun!

AxmxZ June 2, 2008 at 10:30 pm

[re=3562]Godless Liberal *[/re]: WTF is up with all these old fuckers dropping lately? Bo Diddley, Yves St. Laurent, Ted is gone all cancery, now Byrd…

shortsshortsshorts June 2, 2008 at 10:34 pm

[re=3568]AxmxZ[/re]: [re=3562]Godless Liberal *[/re]: Byrd best not go down. This is upsurd (but it should be noted that he’s 90 years old and the longest seat holder in the Senate).

MathewBrooks June 2, 2008 at 10:39 pm

[re=3483]ronaldpagan[/re]: You know, I figured she couldn’t write for shit, BUT DAMN, that was horrific.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 10:50 pm

[re=3514]publius[/re]:
Not true. Because Fry did the “Nasty in the Pasty” his brain waves were different (similar to a dead weasle or an an animator), allowing him to defeat the Brain Spawn.

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 2, 2008 at 10:52 pm

When will Dick Cheney throw himself under the bus?

SayItWithWookies June 2, 2008 at 10:56 pm

[re=3568]AxmxZ[/re]: Don’t forget Bill Buckley. And Charlton Heston. Death swoops in and picks ‘em off whether they’re commie hippies or true red-blooded patriots. The fact that the rich have not yet figured out some way to gain immortality by having the poor die for them is one of the few satisfactions I have. Actually, I take that back — our current president has figured that out. Though it’s probably not the kind of immortality he had planned on.

obfuscator June 2, 2008 at 11:04 pm

[re=3568]AxmxZ[/re]:

Bo Diddley, the father of the pantsuit, Harvey Korman, and Sydney Pollack are all hanging out in a green room in the afterlife as we speak. What the hell would they talk about?

Royal Canadian MountMe June 2, 2008 at 11:05 pm

This is great news!!! FOR DICK CHENEY

mrtrailsafety June 2, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Aw, shee-it! Uncle Dick wanted to make sure you-alls wuz listenin’! Then he was gonna tell you about his “sheepskin” from E Casper Community College.

wowscrait June 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm

If West Virginians want to be miffed at Dick’s insinuations of incestuous unclefuckery, perhaps they should stop fucking their uncles.

valencia June 2, 2008 at 11:29 pm

i thought it was incest and slavery that made america great … okay, maybe just the slavery

AudicityofHope June 2, 2008 at 11:33 pm

[re=3577]obfuscator[/re]: The election and whether or not Hillary is the Whore of Babylon. Sydney Pollack is pissed that he didn’t live long enough to make a movie about the clusterfuck that’s going on in the States.

(pss…Hey, baby! I saw you on Keith tonight; great job. I had never noticed that you had a dimple on your right cheek, btw.)

My old Gawker login was byproxy June 2, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera already proved that incest is hawt. Nothing to worry about, WV.

obfuscator June 2, 2008 at 11:53 pm

[re=3583]AudicityofHope[/re]:

The dimple is my secret weapon. Only the most astute black female uncommitted super delegates notice that kind of thing.

Sydney would be kicking himself about not being able to make a movie about the Clinton campaign. It’d be fraught with psychological inner turmoil, palace intrigue within the high level staff, and a final steadicam scene featuring shrill screaming, a nervous breakdown, a Steuben Glass pitcher shattered in slow motion, and a tattered pantsuit.

John Edworts.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 12:05 am

[re=3591]obfuscator[/re]: Perhaps Woody could make “A Delegate Situation” starring an ensemble cast of Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Poitier, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, and Jude Law and dedicate it to Pollack. But Woody has to promise not to put Scarlett Johansson ANYWHERE in the film.

publius June 3, 2008 at 12:07 am

[re=3573]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Okay, minor factual details, but it didn’t really alter anything else, and he was essentially still the same person, despite doing the nasty with his own grandmother before she met his grandfather and still turning out to be himself.

At any rate, I just thought it was mildly relevant considering the incestuous discussions here! Still a good episode, and I’m glad someone else saw it :)

obfuscator June 3, 2008 at 12:14 am

[re=3593]AudicityofHope[/re]:

A brilliant concept. You should pitch it to the Weinsteins. Wait, they’re Hillzarians. Scratch that.

Could Meryl Streep play Geraldine Ferraro? Stephanie Tubbs-Jones?

Sydney Poitier as newly announced Barry supporter James Clyburn.

Dustin Hoffman as David Axelrod.

We’re making movie magic here, people!

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 12:31 am

[re=3597]obfuscator[/re]: I don’t think any black actress could do Tubbs justice. Meryl Streep, I like as Femi-nazi-Ferraro (and she’d have to drive a Ferrari).

But who the hell is going to play America’s favorite fighter, Hellaballs Clinton? And I’m not totally convinced that Denzel is the right man to play Barry. Only Barack’s ass can do his own ass justice.

Many of Clinton’s campaign staffers will be out of jobs anyway, so they can just play themselves. Which reminds me. I hope everyone saw Countdown tonight especially the last 10 minutes. If you didn’t, here’s the link to the video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#24939498

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 3, 2008 at 12:33 am

[re=3577]obfuscator[/re]: Don’t forget the guy that composed and whistled the Andy Griffin theme (and wrote Harlem Nocturne). It’s been an interesting Dead List the last week.

[re=3590]My old Gawker login was byproxy[/re]: Michael Cera is the single luckiest actor of his generation.

[re=3595]publius[/re]: Watching Futurama as we speak on Comedy Central. “Roswell that Ends Well” is one of the top three episodes of Futurama (I believe it even won the Emmy that year). I love President Truman’s interaction with Zoidberg:

Truman: If you’re here to make peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you’re here to make war, we surrender.
Dr. Zoidberg: Both good. The important thing is I’m meeting new people.
Truman: Bushwah! Now what’s your mission? Are you planning to make some kind of alien-human hybrid?
Zoidberg: Are you coming onto me?
Truman: Hot crackers, I take exception to that!
Zoidberg: (sexfully) I’m not hearing a no.

In fact, using Lionel Hutz as my alias started on a Futurama board, back when the original episodes were airing.

Boy, I’m old.

obfuscator June 3, 2008 at 12:37 am

[re=3598]AudicityofHope[/re]:

Tyler Perry as Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. Also, Phillip Seymour Hoffman drops a few pounds, plays Howard Wolfson.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 12:47 am

[re=3602]obfuscator[/re]: Let’s see…what about Terry McAuliffe? What actor can scream every line like a prepubescent boy who’s having his balls twisted into a balloon animal?

villageatrois June 3, 2008 at 12:54 am

[re=3425]bitchincamaro[/re]:
“Vice President Uncle-Daddy should eat hog-trough full of dicks.”

Ain’t it sad what/who you hafta do to be Vice President of 49.8% of the United States? Can’t blame him for chokin’ back tears. He’s chokin’ on the awesomocity of the task.

publius June 3, 2008 at 1:02 am

[re=3600]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: I always love how Zoidberg really just wants to feel like he’s A) needed, B) acting normal, or C) actually doing something right. Or all of the above. Like seeing an infomercial for a magazine subscription, ordering 12 of them, and congratulating himself for finally becoming a crafty consumer.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:02 am

[re=3607]AudicityofHope[/re]: [re=3597]obfuscator[/re]: For some odd reason, I see Whoopi Goldberg as Tubbs-Jones. (I know she doesn’t look like her..I mean for attitude).. Joan Allen could play Cindy McCain in a sideline footage bit part.

bitchincamaro June 3, 2008 at 1:13 am

[re=3609]villageatrois[/re]:
VP was one god-awful thankless task. Then, along came Darth Cheney and made it the most powerful second-fiddle in-the-whole-world-task and HE managed to boot tons of cash to himself and his pals in the death and oil industries and you and I will pay and pay and pay for many days to come. But there is a chance, slim though it may be, that the bill will be kept minimal by a new white house world order not shot through with arrongance, greed, bloodthirstiness, hubris, and, deception, not heretofore seen by…… well, hmmm, by, a few people, I guess. Shit.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 1:13 am

[re=3602]obfuscator[/re]: Who would you like to play you, baby? Sadly, the only guy that’s comin’ to mind is Paul Giamatti. I’m sure you can come up with someone better.

Queen Latifah can do the honor of playing me.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:18 am

[re=3610]publius[/re]: My all-time favorite Futurama episode is the one featuring the Slurm Factory.. (Just thought I’d get that out there).

Darehead June 3, 2008 at 1:28 am

Jim Newell: I just tried to go the Paultard article on this page and got “Error 404 – Not Found.”

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:28 am

Anyway, back to topic, Lynne Cheney’s “Blue Skies, No Fences” aptly subtitled, ‘Because the Nigger We Shot Done Broke Through It, Now We Gotta Pay to Get A New One’, really does encapsulate white life in the 50′s! Great job, Lynne!

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 1:29 am

[re=3611]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: Who do you think would make the best Chuck Todd? All I can come up with is Paul Giamatti, but I’m sure you can come up with someone better.

Queen Latifah can have the honor of playing me.

Jim Newell June 3, 2008 at 1:30 am

[re=3618]Darehead[/re]: Yeah I decided to take it down because he is like 12 years old. Funny… but 12. Aren’t I a nice guy? Here’s the video if you want to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSc8rogefA

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:30 am

[re=3618]Darehead[/re]: I noticed that myself, it’s mysteriously vanished..

AxmxZ June 3, 2008 at 1:35 am

[re=3577]obfuscator[/re]: Duh – sex.

graceless June 3, 2008 at 1:36 am

He should have said Arkansas, instead. But it really is the same joke, as HRC won both states.

Tits_LaRue June 3, 2008 at 1:36 am

[re=3496]blogfather[/re]: Hey! What gives? [re=3459]Are you calling me a phrase-coin thief?[/re] I hereby challenge you to a Fuckin’ Cousinfuckery Fuckoff™®©!! (All Rights Reserved. Not Valid In 49 States. Actual Cousins Will Not Be Fucked. Possession Of More Than 8 Naturally-Grown Teeth Is Cause For Disqualification.)

publius June 3, 2008 at 1:38 am

[re=3615]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: Indeed, definitely a winner there. That bit at the beginning with the x-ray flashlight they were using to find the winning can when Bender points it at Fry’s crotch:
“Ow, my sperm!”

And then at the Slurm factory Fry can’t stop drinking it even after he sees how it’s made…

bitchincamaro June 3, 2008 at 1:39 am

[re=3615]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]:

Now that all posters seems to have new avatars, don’t you miss being able to decipher them?

This neo-wonkette transition driving the camaro nutzo, yo.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:40 am

[re=3621]Jim Newell[/re]: That was kind of you.. really. It’s nice to know someone that young is influenced so passionately by politics. No more Ghyslains..

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 1:41 am

[re=3621]Jim Newell[/re]: Well at least the kid isn’t a complete idiot like the majority of millenials. But why did he have to film that in front of all of those taxidermied deer heads? Oh yeah. He wants everyone to know that his right, as layed out in the 2nd Ammendment, protects him from being tazed for killing animals. “It’s my fucking civil liberty to protect myself from those globalist deer!”

bitchincamaro June 3, 2008 at 1:42 am

[re=3625]Tits_LaRue[/re]:

Tits Ruuuules, ahahahahahha, berrrp.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 1:44 am

[re=3630]AudicityofHope[/re]: Correction: …*laid* out…

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:45 am

[re=3628]bitchincamaro[/re]: Yeah mine looks like a black square with strategically placed ants around it..

InfoEntity June 3, 2008 at 1:46 am

I signed up to the new Wonkette to say that Cheney would make the best teevee pundit ever.

That, and short-shorts is an embarrassment to the Korean race, with his retarded knee-jerk clawing for friends by being anti-Paultard.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 1:46 am

Can someone tell me why HTML code isn’t working anymore?

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:49 am

[re=3633]AudicityofHope[/re]: I think you were correct the first time, unless you were insinuating the right to bear arms somehow involves fucking. Bears.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 1:53 am

[re=3631]bitchincamaro[/re]: I think bitchincamaro ran over his neighbor.. of beers, 15 of them or so.

bitchincamaro June 3, 2008 at 1:54 am

[re=3495]Maj. Major Major Major[/re]:
Major research and mucho respeck.

bitchincamaro June 3, 2008 at 2:07 am

[re=3639]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]:
Ran over Johnny. Walker. Many times. Fucking Red Wings lost, and Hilz still breathes. Loves me some pity.

ronaldpagan June 3, 2008 at 2:10 am

Jim, good call about taking off the 12-year-old Libertarian. (I’m still glad he can’t vote though.)

ronaldpagan June 3, 2008 at 2:11 am

Hopefully Cheney is a hemophiliac. But that would involve having human blood running through his veins, which I doubt.

WIDTAP June 3, 2008 at 2:21 am

“Hey West Virgina! Is you is or is you ain’t my constituency?”

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 2:21 am

[re=3602]obfuscator[/re]: Queen Latifah can play me. How about Paul Giamatti as “Numbers Master, Chuck Todd”? Although, I think we can come up with a better looking actor; right now, he’s the only one who’s got the red facial hair going.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 2:34 am

[re=3643]bitchincamaro[/re]: So sorry.. I’m a Flyers fan and wanna see Detroit win, fuck Pittsburgh..

capitol-hillbilly June 3, 2008 at 2:37 am

he might not be from west virginia, but he by god knows a thing or two about bein’ stump broke

the schmada June 3, 2008 at 2:38 am

[re=3635]InfoEntity[/re]:Hey welcome back Tony, please eat a dick.

dilhavarti June 3, 2008 at 3:02 am

[re=3564]Kingbee[/re]: Would the self-child be a one-eighth scale sheep from WV? Mini-Dick! It won’t get weird.

villageatrois June 3, 2008 at 3:31 am

[re=3643]bitchincamaro[/re]: “Fucking Red Wings lost, and Hilz still breathes.”

She only gives half a life in Michiganistan. Not enough to grope Mr. Stanley’s cup.

Smoke Filled Roommate June 3, 2008 at 3:54 am

[re=3654]dilhavarti[/re]: No it’ll get weird. It was a babyman screwing a manbaby.. Mittelos Bioscience can fill you in on that with their stupid invention, the ‘time/earth moving’ wheel which is so plausible.

pinko-commie June 3, 2008 at 3:57 am

Do people from West Virginia not understand that they are the butt of the incest jokes? Perhaps a side effect of all that inbreeding is a lack of a sense of humor. And to correct the record, it is Oklahoma where the men are men, and the sheep are scared. It is here in Los Angeles, where we all just want to (and do) fuck ourselves.

AudicityofHope June 3, 2008 at 4:15 am

I don’t know if this video is relevant or not to this thread, but it’s fuckin’ hilarious and I felt the need to share it with you, my friends.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z7sLFhTVMyE

Darehead June 3, 2008 at 4:57 am

[re=3630]AudicityofHope[/re]: [re=3621]Jim Newell[/re]: Ok, I’ll support ya on that one. I just wanted to mention that the kid has a website with zillions of other vids too.

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/vBTube.php?do=user&uname=NsaneSk8er007

regisgoat June 3, 2008 at 6:47 am

Incidentally, there’s a damned good article…
http://www.democraticunderground.com/plaidder/04/37.html
on Lynn Cheney’s purportedly lesbo novel, revealing it to be more about class than sex. Really the best piece I’ve read about Mrs. Angler’s little literary indiscretion. As for San Francisco, I am proud of my dead gay city (to paraphrase that line in Heathers.

Q June 3, 2008 at 8:30 am

:evil: I object to the “Cletus The Slack Jawed Yokel” image. It is culturally offense and hurtful. Billy Bob Clampet, my therapist, says I need effective methods to deal with my anger so I’m gonna beat my woman, fuQ my goat, get drunk, run down some taco munchers, and go out shoot up some stop signs with my SA58 FAL PARA Elite Compact .308 Cal rifle.

MoodProcessor June 3, 2008 at 8:41 am

[re=3598]AudicityofHope[/re]:
Kathy freakin’ Bates + Cheap wig + Banana Yellow P*ntsuit.
Think she could bring the crazy monomania as “Hellaballs Clinton?”
I’d pay. (to see the movie, of course)

ReelectTilden June 3, 2008 at 8:45 am

[re=3648]WIDTAP[/re]: Cheney is definitely getting run out of West Virginia on a rail.

Canuckledragger June 3, 2008 at 8:50 am

You know, if WV’ians really wanted to impress the world with how astute they are, and put an end to the centuries-long jokes about fucking anything at hand, it might have helped had their powers that be responded to Cheney with a little something like this:

“Vice President Cheney might have thought it amusing to poke a little fun at our expense. We are not amused. However, for our own amusement, we’ve done a little investigating and, having done so, our state legislature has unanimously passed the following 12 articles of impeachment against Mr. Cheney. Article One: Mass Murder and War Crimes; Article Two: Theft from the public purse; Article Three: Failure to protect these great United States; Article Four: [etc., etc.]

“We’ve also been in contact with every other state legislature, and found they are also willing to pass similar Articles of Impeachment. We trust that Mr. Cheney, possessed as he is of so complex an intellect, will revel in the irony of being brought down by a bunch of people he considers to e inbred yokels. Have a nice day, Mr. Cheney.”

Suddenly, West Virginia would have a completely new profile. “Hey, West Virginia… isn’t that the state that started the process that led to the imprisonment of all them Bush criminals? Damn, let’s go there on our next vacation.”

[re=3621]Jim Newell[/re]:

Jim, you’ve got a soft heart and one understands that 12 year olds probably shouldn’t be Wonketted. However, 12 year olds who post YouTube dissertations might learn something about the political process, and their part in it, when confronted with the results of their decision. Isn’t Ron Paul all about personal responsibility? [Particularly since there'll be no government left to do a dogdamned thing for the citizens?] You’ve denied this kid a realpolitik civics lesson. What did Stevie W. say? “When you believe in things you don’t understand……”

TJBeck June 3, 2008 at 9:00 am

against one of America’s greatest states

Eh, maybe top 50. But barely.

Lazy Media June 3, 2008 at 9:02 am

I’m from Georgia, and I never dated my cousin. I mean, I fucked her, but I never took her anywhere.

– Blake Clark

Darehead June 3, 2008 at 9:04 am

[re=3677]Canuckledragger[/re]: I’d be inclined to agree with you on the 12-year-old thing, if not for the American litigiousness thing. Furthermore I would like to mention that the kid, as I pointed out above, has his own web page of stuff, on which appears not only a dozen or so AlexJones ripoffs but also (horrors) a porn vid.
BTW [re=3677]Canuckledragger[/re]: What is your avatar now?

Canuckledragger June 3, 2008 at 9:24 am

[re=3683]Darehead[/re]:
It’s a roadsign pointing toward what should be Canada’s most famous town: “Dildo.” If’n you increase the size of your page on your browser [mine's on the bottom right of my broswer frame] you can see it in all its stupid glory.

I tried uploading the distinctive pot flag avatar of old, but it didn’t work.

Then again, I am an idiot. So, there’s that.

Darehead June 3, 2008 at 9:33 am

[re=3695]Canuckledragger[/re]: Oh, darn, sorry it’s so puny cuz I’d really like to see that thing. I hope you get engorg**– I mean, enlarged, soon.

obfuscator June 3, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Instead of apologizing, he should have simply said:

“I’d tell you to go fuck yourselves, but I assume you already are.”

Lionel Hutz Esq. June 3, 2008 at 2:11 pm

This is so unlike Cheney. When he shot the old lawyer, Cheney got him to appologise. When will West Virigina step up and do the same?

1ofUS June 3, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Cheney’s at least a dodecamaroon – or an iscosamoran in pantaloons.

1ofUS June 3, 2008 at 9:35 pm

oh no, icasamoran Where’s my editor when I need him?

shortsshortsshorts June 13, 2008 at 2:32 pm

[re=3635]InfoEntity[/re]: Hi Tony! Fuck you!

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