"Buncombe"--or Worse

       The county that's given its name to the hogwash that emanates from the mouths of politicians has managed to outdo itself!

       A Republican official from Buncombe County, North Carolina, had to resign after his "Daily Show" interview about the state's strict new voter ID laws.  The remarks were unguarded and so racially tinged that Aasif Mandvi even asked Don Yelton, "You know that we can hear you, right?"  County and state GOP leaders disowned Yelton almost at once.

       That county is the origin of the word "buncombe" or "bunkum" or, for short, "bunk."  In 1820, a Representative from the county made an irrelevant speech to Congress just to impress his constituents.

       Now the residents have something else to live down.