{"id":18874,"date":"2016-12-28T03:50:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T03:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2016-12-28T03:50:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T03:50:01","slug":"thats-some-non-apology-carl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s some non-apology, Carl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58629aa71500002e00e9d372.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18875\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58629aa71500002e00e9d372-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58629aa71500002e00e9d372-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/58629aa71500002e00e9d372.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read phony apologies many times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>They usually include the phrase\u00a0&#8220;If I offended anyone ,,.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carl Palodino, the New York Republican operative\/activist and former GOP candidate for governor, has taken the non-apology to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Palodino&#8217;s explanation? What he said to an alternative newspaper in Buffalo, N.Y., was meant only for his &#8220;friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/carl-paladino-email-apology_us_58629a35e4b0d9a5945920ff?section=politics\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/carl-paladino-email-apology_us_58629a35e4b0d9a5945920ff?section=politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What? Huh? Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>This guy has said these kinds of things before. If this latest diatribe isn&#8217;t <em>drenched<\/em> in racist intent, then I have been living in some parallel universe for the past 67 years.<\/p>\n<p>Palodino is a strong ally of Donald J. Trump. To its credit, the president-elect&#8217;s transition team has issued a strong statement of condemnation of Palodino&#8217;s hate-filled comment, calling it &#8220;reprehensible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for this notion that he intended these hideous remarks only for his &#8220;friends,&#8221; how in the name of all that is holy does this guy&#8217;s non-apology make <em>anything<\/em> right?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read phony apologies many times over the years. They usually include the phrase\u00a0&#8220;If I offended anyone ,,.&#8221; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s some non-apology, Carl<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,6801,1424,3043,3808],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-carl-palodino","tag-donald-trump","tag-michelle-obama","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18876,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}