As Vice President Joe Biden’s visit snarls traffic in Los Angeles this week, comedian Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Angelenos to ask if they knew who was causing all the commotion in their city. The results — while neither surprising nor necessarily representative – were certainly hilarious.
In man-on-the-street interviews aired Monday night, not a single L.A. resident was able to say who Biden was. But they had some interesting ideas.
“A terrorist?” one man postulated, with another asking if he was “a movie star” and another claiming he’s a “Republican who’s going to be president soon, I’m assuming.”
Shown a picture of Biden, the African-American man was asked if he thought the vice president was a friend of Obama. “No,” he said. “He looks like he’d probably oppose things Obama’s doing.”
“How come?” the interviewer asked. ”I’m basically going off skin color right now, to be honest with you,” the man replied.
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