Ethics

Biden Swears, Worldnutdaily Readers Get Self-Reighteous

By Ed Brayton

It seems that Dick Cheney isn't the only Vice President who curses:

At an event at Union Station today where Vice President Joe Biden was heralding the $1.3 billion in investments in rebuilding train stations and passenger rails, a microphone picked up one of the former senator's myriad Senate colleagues addressing him, formally, as "Mr. Vice President."

That met with Vice President Biden's standard reply.

"Gimme a f*&$#ing break," he said, apparently unaware that the microphone was on.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).