Poor, poor L. Brooks Patterson claims he's the victim of an ambush

[marmar]

Cue the orchestra.......


(Free Press) Battling back from a storm of negative publicity from an article in the New Yorker magazine, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said Tuesday he felt “ambushed and betrayed” by the article’s author whom he let tag along with him for three days last fall.

Patterson’s comments in the article included derisive and even profane ridicule of Detroit and Detroiters for his view of the city’s crime, corruption, mismanagement and residents who receive public assistance.

Calls for an apology mounted Tuesday from civil rights activists and Detroit political leaders, but Patterson insisted that “I’m not apologizing because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

He told the Free Press that he was quoted out of context and misled about the writer’s intentions. He said he regretted that the article came out at “this key time” in the region’s efforts to resolve Detroit’s bankruptcy. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20140121/NEWS03/301210093/L-Brooks-Patterson-Detroit-The-New-Yorker

[Demeter]

1. He's right--Stupidity and Rudeness and Bigotry are not crimes

other than the social and genetic "crimes" they are.

[JNelson6563]

2. He's an asshole and he needs to go. NOW.

[LovingA2andMI]

3. He's a victim of....

Being a Racist Prink that has no plans ever to get over this inability to accept African-Americans from Detroit or elsewhere are no less Americans than him....