The Vice President gave a speech recently.\u00a0 He talked about the deadly 2011 tornado in Joplin, MO.<\/p>\n
But he made a small error during his remarks.<\/p>\n
The Vice President talked about the “161,000 brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents lost” in that natural disaster.\u00a0 The actual death toll was 161<\/a>.<\/p>\n For comparison, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923<\/a> – after which parts of Tokyo burned for two days – had a death toll of approximately 142,000.<\/p>\n Given the speaker, I think we can blame this one on cluelessness vice mendacity.<\/p>\n But that’s OK, he’s in good company.\u00a0 At one time, his boss apparently thought there were 58 states<\/a> (and he’d visited 57 of them!).\u00a0 And their “patron saint”, Jimmy the Clueless, claims he could have beaten Reagan in 1980 if he’d been “more manly”<\/a>.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"