Asshole of the day: Mark Ewing

They breed a very special kind of asshole in Wasilla.

Via HuffPo:

Mega-Gaffes From Another Wasilla Republican

Posted: 08/16/2012 4:54 pm

 But soon [Mark] Ewing distinguished himself. . . After talking about cutting the operating budget, he cited education as one of the problems.

"We are spending millions and millions of dollars educating children that have a hard time making their wheelchair move and, I'm sorry, but you've got to say, 'no' somewhere. We need to educate our children, but there are certain individuals that are just not going to benefit from an education."

GIFSoup 

After his comment in the debate was published in The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, he received a lot of email. He doubled down on a local right wing radio show stating:

"Actually, you know, that was a response that isn't politically correct. But I'm going to use a quote from Jack Nicholson and that is, 'most people can't handle the truth.'"

 

That's not what I said!

Then he went on to insinuate in Facebook posts (now deleted) that he'd been misquoted by The Frontiersman

Aah, the Wasilla two-step! "I said that, I'm proud I said that, but I didn't say that and how dare you say that I said that!"

A comment on the op-ed, appearing to be from Ewing, stated that he'd "checked the Wasilla Chamber website and realized the words in the paper were mine and I should have made that point clear and apologized to the Frontiersman... and also to the public. It was a poor decision on my part to not remember what I said used to describe children with special needs. I know now that what I meant to say and what I said were completely different and after reading comments from a broad parental base that all children can learn regardless of their handicap I am not against teaching special needs children and clearly not trying to hurt any students or parents that have a child in that situation. This election is not worth my creditably or using a bone headed remarks that may hurt others..." (sic)

 
And a new twist, the "I said that but what I meant was the opposite of what I said."
Sarah Palin would be proud.