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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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?
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