At a meet and greet fundraiser last week, Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage told a room full of supporters that President Obama “hates white people.”
The comments, which were picked upby the Portland Press Herald, came during a speech from the governor at a private fundraiser in Belgrade, ME. Donors from across the state were invited to meet LePage and the state’s new party chairman Rick Bennett.The speech was not recorded, but the paper managed to get confirmation from a couple of attendees:Two Republican lawmakers confirmed the comment when asked directly by a Press Herald reporter, but asked that their names be withheld for fear of political retribution. Each said LePage talked about how Obama could have been the best president ever if he highlighted his biracial heritage. But, LePage said, the president hasn’t done that because he hates white people.“Yeah, he said it,” said one lawmaker. “It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate.”
maybe that's a solution they need to stop meeting and greeting people their contagion is spreading and we get this kind of SNL skit without a laugh line.
The statement is reminiscent of equally inflammatory comments made by conservative shock jocks like Glenn Beck and Rush Lumbaugh.The governor’s senior political adviser Brent Littlefield eventually released astatement after the remark began to circulate in the state media, saying that any insinuation that LePage was a racist seemed “farfetched.” According to the Press Herald, the statement also cited LePage’s past involvement in Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration events, though neglected to mention the instance in which the governor declined an invitation to participate in a similar event from the NAACP and told the civil rights organization to “kiss my butt.”
well they just confirmed it, they are trying to explain it the first sign of guilt by the right wing if that fails they go into the last to stages lie and deny.
