Joe Biden Didn’t Officially Mean It

“Let’s just talk as non-experts, you and me,” said Matt Lauer to Vice President Joe Biden. And so they did.

Biden’s office says he really didn’t mean to advise against flying on airplanes or using mass transit because of the risk of contracting swine flu, but that’s very clearly what he said:

His office suggested that wasn’t what he meant to say. Certainly it isn’t what he should have said.