Posted on 07/11/2010 5:05:15 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Vice President Joe Biden held up airplane traffic for hours on Friday night at Los Angeles International Airport after an appearance on Jay Leno ‘s ‘Tonight Show,’ leaving restless passengers fuming.
A spokesman for the vice president said he was unaware of the FAA temporary flight restriction that stopped flights coming in, and delayed those going out.
“I know we didn’t ask for anything,” Biden’s spokesman James Carney told TheWrap. “There was no sign of any stoppage. And there shouldn’t have been one.”
Oh, but there was. Passengers were stuck for anywhere from 45 minutes to four hours as a result (including this writer), leaving many of them fuming. In one LAX terminal, flights on Horizon, Alaska and Virgin Air had three-hour delays.
“I sincerely hope that the vice president was oblivious to the number of lives he inconvenienced by deciding to land at LAX and his attempted humor on the Tonight Show,” said Will Roos, the owner of an environmental company GreenUp who was on his way back from a business trip in Sun Valley.
He added: “Just on our small propeller plane it resulted in half the passengers missing their flight, everyone missing their checked luggage, and more than four hours of delay for those lucky enough to make it on the plane."
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Quit complaining “Little People”! Your Vice Master is here to help you! Sheesh!!
Send a claim to the white house for lost time take him to small claims court
Vice Pres__ent ‘Biteme’ strikes again.
......like a dark cloud, the Biden legacy continues, screw up after screw up
I say ** to that ... his staff knows all about TFR’s - does the VP live in a vacuum? Apparently he does; he doesn’t know that the POUTUS (yes, POUT-US)and the VP have moving TFR’s where ever they go?....Clinton did the same thing when he landed at LAX for a haircut - held up flights ....(didn’t he?)
Suck it up, Mexifornia. A majority of you voted for Obowma & BiteMe, so deal with the consequences of your “Orgasm The Vote!”
“A spokesman for the vice president said he was unaware of ...”
Just about ANY SITUATION could be used at the end of the sentence.
The only person who seems to know less about White House Policy and Security is obama.
Talk about a clueless VP, or is he just arrogant.
Leno is an idiot having that fool on his show.
Stop whining. It’s your patriotic duty to wait humbly on the tarmac while His Royal Idiot appears on Leno. (Was he one of those folks Leno asks about American history and current events?)
The Vice-moron could have landed at Van Nuys Airport. Closer to the studio, less passenger traffic.
“I know we didn’t ask for anything,” Biden’s spokesman James Carney told TheWrap. “There was no sign of any stoppage. And there shouldn’t have been one.”
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OMG! Is this guy really that stupid or does he think the rest of us are?
I’ll guess “Bite Me Biden” has now become an immortalized phrase amongst air travelers
Maybe he had some new plugs inserted on the tarmac.
I can remember when that clown would screw up traffic on the 405 fwy when he would decide to travel to west LA during evening rush hour.
Or, he could have landed at a smaller commercial airport, namely, Burbank / Glendale / Pasadena, known years ago as Hollywood/Burbank Airport.
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