The US Vice President buys into it:
The day after President Barack Obama urged the flu-worried masses to stay calm, Vice President Joe Biden went off the rails, saying he has urged family members to avoid airplanes and subways.
Biden, whose high-profile misstatements littered the campaign trail last year, told NBC’s “Today” show Thursday that he’d tell family members to avoid traveling in “confined spaces.”
“It’s not just going to Mexico. If you’re any place in a confined aircraft and one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft,” he told Matt Lauer. “That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.”
Biden’s statement sent federal officials into damage-control mode. Biden’s staff, along with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs, said he meant only people who are sick should avoid traveling on planes and trains.
I love how Napolitano and Biden’s staff defend him by claiming he really only meant sick people (or was it travel to Mexico?) when that clearly wasn’t what he was saying. I guess you can’t admit your boss is a dope.
