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."
(Excerpt) Read more at thewrap.com ...
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.”
-----------
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.
This administration has great priorities, eh?
Vote against that son of a bitch and that other son of a bitch and all the sons of bitches running for office as democrats.
Why didn’t the jerk land at Burbank? It’s a lot closer to Leno’s studio. Never mind, I forgot, it’s hard work flying across the country on our dime just so you can say the spy swap should have included Rush.
And he didn’t know the airspace was restricted where he goes???????? ANOTHER LIE FROM THE COMMIES!!!!!!!
Maybe he had to get a haircut on the tarmac (highly recommended by clintoon).
Not known but maybe a green weenie got inconvenienced.
Bet the wimp doesn’t care one bit.
that sounds like a deal....will make great reading as the lefty-judges toss the case....go for it.
It’s now officially Bob Hope Airport. But, yeah, Burbank would have been a better choice! I’m sure the Dems never care how much they inconvenience people.
To Biden, it wasn’t a big effing deal.
Happened to me in Chicago - the Friday afternoon prior to Memorial Day. Air Force One landed at O’Hare, the Zero had to leave by helicopter, so it shut down the airport for about an hour - we sat on the tarmac for the entire time, just missing being able to take off. Passengers sitting next to me missed their connection to London - they weren’t big Obama fans that day.
Close a runway - don’t need the entire airspace around the city.
the little people just don’t understand how much more important the ruling class’s time is. shame on them./s
Slow Joe likely IS blissfully unaware of any restrictions. I doubt he can even spell T-F-R. But that's not the point. I wouldn't expect him to sweat that stuff, his STAFF should and he is responsible for the competence of his staff. So the screw up ultimately does belong to him.
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."
Anybody see a problem with this? All these enviroassholes are upset because their flights were disrupted and their connecting flights were missed.
F-- them. They should have to take a bicycle or walk to wherever they're traveling. Why are they wasting all that carbon flying? They shouldn't be anywhere near an airport to be inconvenienced in the first place.
And they're all going to still vote Democrat. F--- them. Do it again, Biden.
Maybe they gave him Biden just to make BO look better. I think BO’s an idiot, on so many levels, clearly a product of affirmative action, no matter what the leftists say about his imaginary “intellect.”
LAX? If Biden was going to NBC why didn't the jackass fly into Bob Hope?
Question: how come the Vice President didn’t use Edwards AFB or the former March AFB to land the VC-32A and then helicopter into Los Angeles? I do know that many times when Air Force One visits the San Francisco Bay Area they often use Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, CA mostly because 1) it has a long enough runway and 2) it won’t interfere with operations at San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose International Airports.
The sad fact is, Biden was chosen to give the Administration foreign policy gravitas. I am not joking. That is what all the media etc reported way back when.
Crap that what happen, I had a connecting flight at LAX Fri at 5:30 pm...we were held up about 30 min
They all know, and they don’t care, they just send assistants out there to calm the great unwashed when they are thrown asunder. When the Princess Pelosi, Viceroy Reid, Royal Bitem VP and the Great and Powerful Wizzard of BOZ all deem to travel amongst the masses we must genuflect.
A good friend of the family was caught in this shut down and missed a flight to Australia. As a result he had to stay over night in LA and take the next flight out, which was not until the next day. Not a happy camper.
That too!
I thought it was a lame answer by VP Bite-Me ... he inconvenienced a lot of people who will remember his party this November ...I’ve got my over seas mail-in ballot request already in ....
He wanted to wide in his wong motewcade thwough the stweets of LA!!!! Makes him fweel wike a stwar!
Oh, I didn’t know Bwarny Fwrank was with him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.