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Foster Friess, the Santorum-supporter who’s now known best for suggesting that “gals” stick aspirin between their knees as birth control, wants everyone to know that he was just making a “silly” joke. Har, har. Andrea Mitchell‘s awkward silence following his statement was a pretty good barometer for his humor, but Friess admits that not even his own wife, Lynn Friess, found it funny. And Santorum was equally unimpressed.
Friess apologized via blog post last night, in which he apologized “to those who misunderstood his joke“:
Today on Andrea Mitchell’s show, my aspirin joke bombed as many didn’t recognize it as a joke but thought it was my prescription for today’s birth control practices. In fact, the only positive comments I got were from folks who remembered it from 50 years back. Birth control pills weren’t yet available, so everyone laughed at the silliness on how an aspirin could become a birth control pill.
After listening to the segment tonight, I can understand how I confused people with the way I worded the joke and their taking offense is very understandable. To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife constantly tells me I need new material—she understood the joke but didn’t like it anyway—so I will keep that old one in the past where it belongs.
He also took the opportunity to brag about Santorum’s stance on birth control (wowing us with Santorum’s public claims that he would not ban contraception), and thanked those who did find humor in his joke for their encouragement.
Santorum also seems to be distancing himself from Friess: In an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Santorum said that Friess made “a stupid joke” that does not “reflect on the campaign or me.” Although, judging by his stance on birth control (in the same interview, he said “I think it’s harmful to women; I think it’s harmful to society”), I’m not sure it’s far off.
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