Typical Dick move.

Via The Hill:

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday defended his decision not to remove a Facebook post alleging that a GOP House leader told President Obama “I cannot even stand to look at you,” saying he would have been accused of trying to run away from his statement.

Instead, after the White House took the blame for passing along incorrect information last week, Durbin updated his Facebook wall and urged people to move beyond the incident.

“If I had pulled it off, they would have said ‘You’re trying to run away from it,’” Durbin said at an event in Chicago, according to Bloomberg News.

Durbin made some of his first public comments since the incident drew rebuke from House Republicans, who demanded a retraction and an apology.