Real Biden Responds to Fake Biden: I'm A 'Vette Guy

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Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM

Real Biden responds to The Onion's Fake Biden: http://tpm.ly/10F8sYu

The Onion's caricature of Vice President Joe Biden held an "Ask Me Anything" chat on the social news site Reddit Friday, in promotion of the satirical newspaper's new e-book, "The President of Vice."

Biden's office released a question from the vice president ahead of the chat, nodding to the famous May 2009 classic Biden headline: "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway".

Office of VP Biden@VP

Q for @reddit AMA with my @TheOnion pal: A Trans-Am? Ever look under the hood of a Corvette? #imavetteguy –VP pic.twitter.com/xPGMBBYl

[Ian David]

1. Our VP has a sense of humor. Cheney would have just waterboarded the Trans Am. n/t

[leveymg]

3. Ah, shit. Flooded it again.

Damned Holleys!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Well played!

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8. Here are some real Trans Ams (and some Can Am).

Good: Enjoy a little motor music

Better: and if you liked that, try this - no Holleys, but lots of Lucas stacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5mcg2GlPDa8

Best: A brace of Webers atop a big block in a British chassis:

&NR=1

[longship]

2. Joe is the greatest!

He's really the best Veep ever.

And don't you like a White House with a sense of humor, when it's appropriate. They can even laugh at themselves.

[frylock]

5. for reference..

one of my all-time fav Onion pieces!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-dri,2718/

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6. thanks, frylock

. . . hilarious!

[bongbong]

7. Car And Driver interviewed Joe

And he expounded upon his vette.

However, they got a deluge of hate-mail, as car guys (i.e, car rag subscribers) tend to be wingnuts.

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9. r

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. But do they read Load & Crash (as it was called by MAD magazine)

Or Car & Driver?

One of those mags test drove anything that moved. I read in the late '70s about the test drive of the Mercedes-Benz GT (Garbage Truck). Curb weight 22,000 lbs.

[ellisonz]

11. Oh Joe...