Joe Biden's 'Smartass' Quip: Vice President Jokes With Wisconsin Ice Cream Store Manager (VIDEO)

Over the weekend, Vice President Joe Biden was caught once again in one of his now infamous verbal gaffes.

Biden's latest comment came during a visit to Wisconsin where he was campaigning for Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold. When the vice president stopped at Kopp's Frozen Custard for an icy treat, the shop's manager casually suggested to the veep that the Obama administration "lower our taxes." Biden's response: "Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?"

The vice president's remark was made in jest at the culmination of a colorful exchange captured on camera by local station WISN 12. According to the store manager, Biden later whispered that he was just kidding. He also said after the run-in that Biden was "very nice."

Earlier this year, the vice president made another unforgettable open-mic gaffe when he told President Obama that the passage of health care reform was "a big fucking deal" -- on live television.

WATCH: Biden Calls Ice Cream Store Manager A 'Smartass'

Comments

[Badger84]

09:29 PM on 06/30/2010

Well, he should have visited Leon's instead; a local institution with a better product.

[Sixtracks]

01:54 PM on 06/30/2010

Proof that Biden was right:
http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/scott-the-kopps-custard-guy-is-also-a-smartass-to,42631/
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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/joe_biden_called_my_old_boss_a.html

[FlameOnH8]

01:22 PM on 06/30/2010

Just another case of "when keeping it real goes wrong."

[Treima]

11:34 PM on 06/29/2010

I like Biden! He speaks his mind, and he always has. It's something that's lacking in American political discourse these days. He's got blue-collar, working-class roots, and it shows.

[SparkyDash]

11:57 PM on 06/29/2010

I've always found interesting with Joe, he is told his honesty makes some uncomfortable or leaves him open for ridiculous comments from detractors, but he has always kept an open, passionate and poignant way of communicating...no whitewash politico-speak for Biden. He is real and makes no excuses. I honestly love the gentleman and feel we are fortunate to have such a loving soul in the Administration; I'm glad he's with Obama.

[Snarliechell]

12:55 AM on 06/30/2010

that is what i do not like about him

[Brane]

08:16 PM on 06/29/2010

Dedicate one to the ladies...
Now summertime's here babe, need somethin' to keep you cool
Ah, now summertime's here babe, need somethin' to keep you cool
Better look out now though, Dave's got somethin' for you
Tell ya what it is
I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by
Oh my, my, I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by
See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy
Hold on a second baby

I got bim bam banana pops, dixie cups
All flavors and pushups too

I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy Hold on, one more

Well I'm usually passin' by just about eleven o'clock
Uh huh, I never stop
I'm usually passin' by just around eleven o'clock
And if ya' let me cool you one time, you'll be my regular stop

All right boys!

I got bim bam banana pops, dixie cups
All flavors and pushups too

I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by
See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy, yes
I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by
I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by
They say all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy.

Now THAT is a smart@$$ ice cream man.

[SparkyDash]

12:02 AM on 06/30/2010

lol..Van Halen!

[SURFER DUDE]

06:57 PM on 06/29/2010

He is just an employee. His payroll tax rate is like everybody else's... 7.65% (ss+medicare). The owner must match yogurt man's and all the other yougurt employees with the same 7.65%. But don't worry, once all the yougurt shop employees make $106,000, they stop taking out Fed payroll taxes.

BTW, if I was the owner of that place, I would fire that whiney manager for backtalking the VPOTUS, impuning the reputation of my establishment and for not charging the guy 3 bucks for the cone. He just gave away all the profits. Also, if I owned the place, all my workers would have insurance and a 401k plan. Gotta keep your employees happy man. I'm willing to pay a few cents more for a cone so that they all have at least basic health care.....how about you?

[Brane]

07:53 PM on 06/29/2010

Uncommon intelligence for a surfer. Faved.

[Coyote50]

08:15 PM on 06/29/2010

Excellent comment! Faved!

[sydneymoon]

05:19 PM on 06/29/2010

Much ado about nothing. He likes to kid around.

[agxphoto]

05:11 PM on 06/29/2010

I think the Vice President does okay. I hear and read about these "gaffes", and really don't think much of them. If President Harry Truman was on video these days, some of these wimpy commentators would have a stroke!

[pennlady]

04:19 PM on 06/29/2010

Joe has a sense of humor. And he doesn't hide like the former VP did.

[Coyote50]

03:08 PM on 06/29/2010

I wish he'd said, we already did, since 90% of the country paid lower taxes last year than in a loong time....

[Mark Harker]

03:39 PM on 06/29/2010

aparrently the other ten percent aren't "real" americans and don't count.

[oberon123]

04:16 PM on 06/29/2010

You go it. Leave.

[Coyote50]

04:35 PM on 06/29/2010

Actually, I misspoke. It's more like 5% of the country who make less than $250,000 and got the tax cuts.

I bet you dollars to donuts the guy in the ice cream store was not making over $250,000 a year. And that's why Joe was messing with him - because Joe knew he wasn't. ANd Joe knew that the average family of 4 was paying the lowest they've paid in 50 years.

So if you make $250,000 or more and you're whining about not getting a tax break, when so many people don't even have jobs, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[jourdankr]

02:56 PM on 06/29/2010

He makes me smile - and his wife is AWESOME!

[bswell]

02:13 PM on 06/29/2010

Love Joe B. He defies the oxymoron "honest politician." Wondering if he should change jobs with his boss.

[sistahfriend]

02:06 PM on 06/29/2010

I LOVE JOE!

[jsgaetano]

01:50 PM on 06/29/2010

The Teabagger should have been on his hands and knees, praising the ground Joe Biden walks upon, for him and Obama passing the largest middle class tax cut in US history.

Kind of odd how the Teabaggers claim to be "experts" on tax issues, yet they worship Reagan as their god, despite his having passed the largest tax increases in US history.

[Artemis34]

02:07 PM on 06/29/2010

Yes, they are living in fantasy seemingly immune to reality.

[h23154]

01:22 PM on 06/29/2010

It would have been better had he responded as Bush might have; yeah, um, um, uh, uhm, thanks icey dicey. May I call you icey dicey? I like ice cream. It makes my brain hurt good.

Cheyney would have just shot him.

[joyf1]

02:22 PM on 06/29/2010

Good one!!!