"I've said I was sorry from the first interview," Green Party leader Elizabeth May told me when I interviewed her today on Parliament Hill.
"My attempts at humour were completely misplaced and didn't work well," she added.
I asked her if she stood by her comment that convicted terrorist Omar Khadr had more "class" than the Prime Minister's cabinet, and she told me she was trying to make a play on words related to her earlier reference to the 1970s sit-com Welcome Back, Kotter.
May told me she has no further plans to "try to do comedy without help."
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That stony, dagger throwing glare she delivered during her joke was as serious as a heart attack.
If a Conservative had done the same thing the main stream media would be riding and flogging this horse for weeks if not months, but since Conservatives are a cut above the MSM and the left …
But that she thought the concept was funny in any context shows a huge lapse in judgement. It shows she thinks society, including those at the dinner, think it acceptable to joke that a treasonist terror convict is better than all the members of Cabinet.
That judgement shows May has lost touch with reality. Time for her to go to rehab …
… but May will say neigh, neigh, neigh …