After Biden’s unseemly flu remarks settled in, people from Biden's office to Napolitano to Gibbs - everyone but the White House dog - frantically issued clarifications excusing the VP by saying, "what he really meant was...”
What he really
said was:
"I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," Biden said. "It's not that it's going to Mexico. It's you're in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft." Biden went on to say he wouldn't suggest that they ride the subway either.
Avoid all airline travel? Don't ride the subway?
Cue the backpedaling:
At 8:47 a.m., Biden's office put out a statement gamely trying to rewrite the vice president's words.
By 10 a.m., Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano had supplied her own do-over for the VP.
Even New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "I think what Joe Biden was talking about was...”
More of the Joe Biden alibi story here.
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