Huckabee: ‘I apologize that my comments were offensive.’

[kpete]

Huckabee: ‘I apologize that my comments were offensive.’
Earlier today, while speaking at the NRA convention in Louisville, KY, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made an offhand joke after being interrupted by an offstage nice. In his joke, Huckabee claimed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “dove for the floor” when “somebody aimed a gun at him.” Huckabee has released a statement apologizing for the remark:

During my speech at the NRA a loud noise backstage, that sounded like a chair falling, distracted the crowd and interrupted my speech. I made an offhand remark that was in no way intended to offend or disparage Sen. Obama. I apologize that my comments were offensive, that was never my intention.

Obama was placed under secret service protection last year — the earliest ever for a U.S. presidential candidate — because of racially motivated threats.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/huckabee-i-apologize-that-my-comments-were-offensive/

[davidinalameda]

1. wow, that's really funny

not

[L. Coyote]

2. Yeah, it is like he is blaming the damn chair!! GOD will punish this man. LOL

by putting all his weight back on him and sending him to HELL.

[Robbien]

3. "that my comments were offensive" not "if my comments offended anyone"

Funny that Huckabee didn't make the standard non-apology apology all other GOPers use.

[Fridays Child]

6. It was a bit less deceptively constructed than the typical GOP mea culpa but...

...saying that it wasn't his intention to be offensive is still a lie.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. He didn't take any responsibility

His "apology" is bogus. He's shifting it from the personal to the impersonal - he's not the subject, but his "remarks" are.

He should have said "I'm sorry I said what I said. It was offensive, mean-spirited, bigoted, and hateful. I regret so much what I have done, and I hope Senator Obama and the rest of the country can forgive me."

THAT would have been an apology. His statement is nothing more than the pathetic sniveling sounds made by a weasel.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Yup, them thar comments is to blame - they done it, not me

It's like he's apologizing for his dog having farted. Those comments just had a life of their own. They forced themselves upon poor ole Huck.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Seed planted, now more along...

what a fucking idiot, do they think we don' see this for what it is?

[Gman]

5. Hmmm...

Not apologize "if" but apologize "that". He admits his remarks were offensive and apologizes. Very strange coming from a puke.

[smokey nj]

8. Fuckabee should go huck himself.

[Berry Cool]

9. "I apologize that my comments were offensive,

because I really wish no one had found them offensive."

That's what he wanted to say.

The new non-apology apology.

[Bluebear]

10. I'm sure he would have liked to have added "Lighten up and/or Get Over It." nt

[magellan]

12. And the audience LAUGHED

That's what really got me. I expected the beat of silence to be followed by gasps. Instead -- laughter.

Not so long ago there was a sense of moral decency in this country. The Repubs have eaten away at that and made immorality the "Christian" thing, as long as it's directed at the enemy.

Thoroughly disgusted.

[emilyg]

13. Actually, majority did not laugh.

[magellan]

15. Edit: Sorry! You're absolutely right

I was going from memory of what I heard on Countdown, but I just viewed it again. Guess it enraged me so badly that I conflated the first round of laughter with the second which was more a tittering.

It's still angering, but at least the idiots in the crowd were in the minority.

[DearAbby]

14. What is scary...

some stupid Rube, who has had a steady diet of this shit, actually thinking this would be a good idea.

It is something a decent person would never joke about.

[Nikki Stone1]

16. It was so offensive that I don't believe he actually said it.

I agree with you that it is scary.

[The_Counsel]

17. REVEREND Huckabee Should Know Better.

But then he IS a Republican, so I'm not surprised.

Sad. Just sad...