Rep. Pete King: Yeah, I snapped a pic of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but I didn’t know who the guy was

Excuses, excuses.

On Inauguration Day, Twitchy reported that a dead ringer for GOP Rep. Pete King was caught nabbing a cellphone photo of Jay and Bey. Today, after making the cover of the New York Post, King confirmed that he was indeed the pol scrambling for a pic.

But for the record, he wants you to know he didn’t recognize the “99 Problems” rapper. He was just taking photos of “anybody who looked important.” You know, like the first couple:

Heh. Looks like King wasn’t the only one more interested in Beyoncé than in President Obama. The actual first couple is notably absent from the Post’s cover today.

NYPost finds a way to keep Obama's photo AND name off it's front page inauguration coverage. pic.twitter.com/ddfmmU11

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) January 22, 2013