Foster Friess, one of a few billionaire Republican donors funding the GOP presidential race, speaking about President Obama in a FOX Business News interview today said, “I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof.†Friess, who gained infamy for saying that in his day, women placed an aspirin tablet between their knees as a low-cost form of effective contraception, was funding Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign until the former Pennsylvania Senator pulled out this week. Friess is now supporting Mitt Romney.
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“There are a lot of things that haven’t been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other,†Friess said during an interview on Fox Business Network, the L.A. Times reports. “Now that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof.â€
“Friess told ABC News that he regretted the statement immediately after making it,” the Times noted, and added:
It isn’t the first time gun imagery has been used in the presidential campaign. This year, when Santorum visited a shooting range in Louisiana, a woman screamed that he ought to pretend Obama was his target. Santorum didn’t hear the woman and said afterword that such a remark was “horrible.â€
For the record, this is what “bullet-proof” glass looks like when shot with bullets:
Image of President Obama by Matthias Winkelmann