I'm a little surprised that this hasn't been diaried yet, and if it has, well I just don't know how to use the search function properly.
So there's another Republican tea party member who made a real bad racist comment, and is now making a faux apology claiming really he was just joking.
Quick little diary, read on below the fold...
A South Carolina lawmaker on Thursday called a Republican gubernatorial candidate of Indian descent a "raghead," saying we have one in the White House, we don't need one in the governor's mansion.
Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts later apologized for the slur, saying the remarks about President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley were meant as a joke.
They came on Internet political talk show, Pub Politics. Co-host Phil Bailey said Knotts said, "We've already got a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion."
I'll call this an instant classic. I just wish I could run my life like that, making racist comments and then when I realize I offended someone call it a joke and "apologize" by saying, "I'm sorry you were offended", rather than taking any real sort of responsibility.
But what's the absolute best part about this? The candidate that he called a raghead, Nikki Haley...
Haley, who has been endorsed by Sarah Palin and is a favorite of the tea party, also represents Lexington in the Statehouse and has faced other landmines in her attempt to become the state's first female governor. In the past two weeks, two men have come forward to say they had trysts with her, which she denies.
Hilarious. The GOP is trying their hardest to implode from within.
SOURCE: Yahoo News! Associated Press
Update: I made a mistake in the opening paragraph which I have fixed. Nikki Haley is the tea party member and not Knotts.
Update #2: Fixed the title to more accurately reflect the facts.
Update #3: Apologies to segseg who already diaried about this yesterday.