Foster Friess, the billionaire backer of the pro-Rick Santorum super PAC, apologized early Friday for “joking” that women should put “aspirin between their knees” as a form of birth control. Friess wrote on his blog:
After listening to the segment tonight, I can understand how I confused people with the way I worded the joke and their taking offense is very understandable. To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife constantly tells me I need new material—she understood the joke but didn’t like it anyway—so I will keep that old one in the past where it belongs.
On MSNBC Thursday night, Friess also laughed off the remark as a bad “joke.”
