TMZ catches Burr, not that he minds
As our friends at Politico note, usually when the website TMZ catches a public figure in public the exchange rates somewhere between "awkward" and "hold on while I dial my lawyer."
But, as seen in this clip, Sen. Richard Burr doesn't mind showing his thing to the Web site at all.
To be precise, Burr's "Thing" is a 1974 Volkswagen convertible that he uses to get around Washington, D.C., even in the nastiest of weather. From a blog post a couple years back:
The Volkswagen Thing, a Mexican variant of a European jeep from the late 1960s and early 1970s, is about as ugly a mod of transportation as one might find. Sen. Richard Burr has two."As most would tell you up here, rarely if ever does the top go up," he says. "I leave the top down because the weather is pretty good most of the time and I can ride from here to the White House and kind of forget that I'm in Washington. It's as much therapy as anything else."
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LOL! That's classic.
Back when I was 19 I drove a Triumph Spitfire, and it took a major weather "event" for me to put the top back up. I had one of those tonneau covers that allowed you to zip open the driver's side and drive in the rain without getting the inside of the car (too) wet.
I also had a pair of goggles that I wore when it was raining hard. Which, in retrospect, seems kind of dorky, but dorks generally can't comprehend their dorkiness. ;)
Posted on February 5, 2009 4:46 PM
But, as seen in this clip, Sen. Richard Burr doesn't mind showing his thing to the website at all.
To be precise, Burr's "Thing" is a 1974 Volkswagen convertible that he uses to get around Washington, D.C., even in the nastiest of weather. From a blog post a couple years back:* Pol Co
No doubt Senator Burr is having a flashback in history thinking he is the Fuhrer personal Chauffeur on a Autobahn Sunday Drive.
Has it ever occured to Gernic establishment Republicans how they got stuck with the Nazi image by the Communist Democrats
Posted on February 5, 2009 5:29 PM