Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Racist Republician Calls Michelle Obama a Gorilla


South Carolina GOP activist and former chairman of the state elections commission Rusty DePass posted on Facebook that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was an "ancestor" of Michelle Obama.

DePass’s comment was a response to a Facebook post by an aide to state Attorney General Henry McMaster, who described in detail the escape of a gorilla from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo Friday.

“I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors - probably harmless,” DePass wrote.

He later admitted that he was in fact referring to First Lady Michelle Obama.

“I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest,” he told WIS News, a local television station who spoke to him exclusively.

The comment was immediately removed while DePass’ Facebook page was also later deleted, WIS reports.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet fox news is up in arms over the Letterman / Palin kerfuffle.

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