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In reply to the discussion: The used car salesman strikes again [View all]Nine
(1,741 posts)Shia LeBeouf could have made a humble apology when his plagiarism first surfaced but his ego wouldn't let him. Or maybe he thought at first that he could get away with a plagiarized apology. But by the time his apology was found to be plagiarized, he knew he had gone too far. He had to either REALLY lose face with an apology for the apology or he had to find a way to spin it. He chose the latter. So now he's either pretending to have lost his mind or he's pretending that it's been some kind of performance art all along. But no one is falling for it.
I think you know that your "fuck you" and "piece of shit" language from that other thread was over the top and that your blame of Obama was illogical and unmerited. But you're too egotistical to apologize, so you're doubling down (as others have noted) and trying to put some new spin on it. "Used car salesman" is an offensive way to refer to our Democratic president, but I think you'd rather have people focus on and remember that part of it than the rest of it, which was even more offensive and childish. I think you've been waiting all this time for Obama to say or do something that would allow you to shoehorn in that phrase again so that you can pretend it was political critique all along rather than a grown man having a tantrum. Does "used car salesman" even fit this latest poutrage?