ME Gov. Paul LePage Says He Wants To ‘Blow Up’ Portland Press Herald

LePage is notorious for shooting off his mouth:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Friday said he’d like to blow up the Portland Press Herald building.

LePage made the remark while participating in a fighter jet simulation at Pratt & Whitney, a defense contractor in North Berwick. When asked by a simulator what he’d like to do, LePage said, “I want to find the Press Herald building and blow it up,” according to video posted by the Bangor Daily News. …

That was a bit extreme by even his standards.

Adrienne Bennett, the governor’s spokeswoman, said in an email that LePage was clearly joking and was responding to a question from the simulator who asked the governor if he’d like to blow up anything.

Riiiight. Try telling that to eliminationist gun-nuts who can’t stand the liberal press and would love any excuse to take it to those filthy lying commie pinko socialists McVeigh style. FREEEEEEEDOM!!!!1!.

On at least two occasions, he has told students that his biggest fear is newspapers and he also once said buying a copy of a newspaper is like paying someone to lie to you.

Only if you don’t want to believe what they write. “Nuff said.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.