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To: Vice President Joe Biden
The Naval Observatory
One Observatory Circle NW
Washington, DC, 20008
Re: Your Big Mouth
Dear Mr. Vice President,
If you’re so concerned about the health of New Yorkers, do us a favor and cover your mouth before you talk again.
We’re all a little uneasy about swine flu — and for good reason — but your suggestion that straphangers cut up their MetroCards and cower in their apartments is reckless and stupid, damaging to our economy and our psyche.
This is the city that never sweats, at least not the small stuff. If Osama bin Laden couldn’t keep us from riding the subway after 9/11, Porky Pig certainly isn’t going to now.
You say you don’t like confined spaces, like airplanes. Fine — don’t get on one and come here ever again.
But if you do, here’s a MetroCard so you can take the subway or the bus — just like 7 million of us do every day, through good times and bad. Squished up against each other, we may give up our privacy, and even a little bit of our dignity, but we do it with pride and resolve.
We’ve done it for 105 years now, through far worse epidemics than this.
Yes, the subway we love to hate is a breeding ground for entire civilizations of germs and bacteria.
But after riding the Lexington Avenue line during rush hour, our hands are still cleaner than yours are after spending just a single minute in the seedy backrooms of Washington.
On Monday, a showboating Air Force One made half the city duck and cover, bringing back memories of our darkest day.
But yesterday, Gaffe Force Two (that’d be you, Joe) took a shot at our economic backbone.
You and the president claim you want to stimulate the economy. But this week, you sent people fleeing from their desks in the middle of the workday and then urged them to stay home for good.
You campaigned as a proponent of mass transit. But your remarks could generate mass hysteria.
We didn’t ask for your two cents, and our subway turnstiles don’t want your two bucks.
As we say in New York: Flu you, Joe. And the pig you rode in on.
Yours truly,
The New York Post staff.
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12 Responses
There is no excuse for addressing the leaders of our country is such a debased and insulting manner. And YWN should consider it beneath their dignity to publish material of this caliber, more suitable for the clientele of this rag of a paper than for the ‘yeshiva world’. It is possible to disagree with someone without insulting them.
Very well said.
The VP suffers from a different disease, its called foot in mouth disease.
The VP’s remark was stupid . . . that said, it must be a slow news day at the Post. I really miss Dorothy Schiff – the NY Post was a great paper back then.
GUT GEZUGT!!
let’s see CNN post this!!!
That is an awesome response to someone who has no business being vice president.
How old was the author of this article?
I agree with #1 the Post is a Cheap Tabloid, and the remarks of the Staff that work unfortunately inculcate this attitude. I may not agree with Vice President Biden, but to speak in such a disrespectful way to the Vice President of the U.S.A. goes beyond what is tasteful and acceptable of Freedom of the Press.
All the way!!!!
The Post deserves a standing ovation from all sensible people. (This obviously leaves out some people who posted before me.)
The Veep certainly suffers from “Hoof-and-Mouth Disease” made famous a few years ago.
6, as long as we criticize those we disagree with in the same dignified way we wish Bush would have been treated. There are ways to do this and imo this ain’t it.