I’ve read phony apologies many times over the years.
They usually include the phrase “If I offended anyone ,,.”
Carl Palodino, the New York Republican operative/activist and former GOP candidate for governor, has taken the non-apology to a new level.
He said he wished President Obama would die in the coming year of mad cow disease and said Michelle Obama is really a dude who should live with gorillas in Africa.
Palodino’s explanation? What he said to an alternative newspaper in Buffalo, N.Y., was meant only for his “friends.”
What? Huh? Are you kidding me?
This guy has said these kinds of things before. If this latest diatribe isn’t drenched in racist intent, then I have been living in some parallel universe for the past 67 years.
Palodino is a strong ally of Donald J. Trump. To its credit, the president-elect’s transition team has issued a strong statement of condemnation of Palodino’s hate-filled comment, calling it “reprehensible.”
As for this notion that he intended these hideous remarks only for his “friends,” how in the name of all that is holy does this guy’s non-apology make anything right?
It’s exactly the same thing that the President-Elect did when he said that his hideous, misogynist, predatory remarks about women were just “locker room talk.” Powerful men trying to excuse reprehensible remarks/beliefs by blaming the listener (or women, or homosexuals, or immigrants, or minorities, etc.) rather than acknowledging it is wrong or changing their behavior.