Foster Friess' unfunny comment not campaign's problem: candidate
(NEWSER) - After making headlines yesterday by saying aspirin "between [gals'] knees" once served as birth control , Foster Friess explained his comments to Lawrence O'Donnell last night. "I love the expression, 'It’s not so much what people say, it’s what people hear,' and obviously a lot of people who are younger than 71 didn’t get the context of that joke," the leading Rick Santorum backer said. "Back in my days, they didn’t have the birth control pill, so to suggest that Bayer Aspirin could be a birth control was considered pretty ridiculous and quite funny." But on his website today, Friess went further and actually apologized, saying that even his wife "didn't like" the joke. More»
