Keke Palmer not knowing Dick Cheney is the new meme for ignoring your ex

"I don't know who this man is," she said, shaking her head. "He could be walking down the street and I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man."

Keke Palmer's reaction to Dick Cheney is, frankly, pure art.

The former Nickelodeon star-turned-Hustlers power woman took a lie detector test for Vanity Fair on Wednesday, where she answered questions about her birth place, her real name, and her dating preferences. When asked whether her character on the Nickelodeon show True Jackson, VP was a better VP than Vice President Dick Cheney, she balked.

"I don't know who this man is," she said, shaking her head. "He could be walking down the street and I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man."


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Iconic. According to the lie detector, Palmer was telling the truth when she said, with her whole chest, that she did not know Dick Cheney.

The clip was posted by MTV video producer Matt Gehring the day the video went up, and it went viral on Twitter.

Since Wednesday, the clip of Palmer saying "I don't know this man" has been used as a reaction to running into exes, Biblical references, and dealing with student loan debt.

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