It's not often that on one's way to a reprise of an already-established apology, one trips over the words and falls deeper into stupidity.
But that's exactly what happened to the Pine Tree State's governor not very long ago.
This morning, Maine Gov. Paul LePage was in Vermont (out of respect for the citizens of that state, I have to believe it was an illegal border crossing) for a fundraiser.
The hilarious tale unfolds from there.
Now teacher gave you two chance, Paulie and you still failed the test. Dummkopf
"Standing by Brock's side at the Sheraton in South Burlington, the Maine governor said, "What I am trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and, frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. Maybe the IRS is not quite as bad -- yet."
LePage then said, "They're headed in that direction."
Asked if he had a sense of what the Gestapo did during the second world war, LePage said, "Yeah, they killed a lot of people."
Asked whether the IRS "was headed in the direction of killing a lot of people," LePage answered: "Yeah."
UPDATE 07/14/2012:
Apparently, LePage pulled his head out of his ass long enough to get air to it and truly figure out where he went wrong. After a meeting with several Jewish leaders, he issued an apology that sounds as though it actually came from a sane person:
Viel besser
LePage said it was "never my intent to insult or to be hurtful to anyone, but rather express what can happen by overreaching government.
"The acts of the Holocaust were nothing short of horrific. Millions of innocent people were murdered, and I apologize for my insensitivity to the word and the offense some took to my comparison of the IRS and the Gestapo," the governor said.
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