"I wore blackface, just not that time."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How is that exculpatory?

[LuvLoogie]

1. There's probably a more discernable photograph of "that time" somewhere.

Maybe his wife future was there. The other times, there weren't any cameras.

[EffieBlack]

2. Because he's trying to get out in front of the inevitable release of him in blackface

The old "I was dressed up like Michael Jackson" defense.

[crazytown]

4. Gaslighting.

No Shame. A Republican with a D after his name.

[Solly Mack]

3. No shit. Damn. Just damn.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. 7000 plus

AA casualties in Viet Nam, years before this stupidity.

[Skinner]

6. Oh god did he really say that?

Unfortunately I am not in a place where I can watch this trainwreck. Posting from my phone.

[pnwmom]

10. He said he put some shoe polish on his face when he danced as Michael Jackson

that same year, but he was careful to only put some on his cheeks because he knew that stuff is hard to get off.

He seriously said that.

[Takket]

7. that actually makes it WORSE

He just established a PATTERN of this behavior as opposed to denying it was him in the photo which could never really be proven or disproven. He HAS to resign now!

[peggysue2]

8. Northam's excuse is no better . . .

than the Trumpster claiming doubt over the Access Hollywood tape, the grab 'em by the pussy line.

Why or how he thought this reversal would fly is beyond me, particularly now that he's admitted doing blackface--just a little shoe polish on his cheeks--in a Michael Jackson impersonation/dance contest.

It just gets more bizarre. Plus, he explained he used 'just a little shoe polish because it's hard to get off.' Not because blackface is objectionable or offensive but because it's hard to clean up.

In so-o-o many ways, I might add.

[moondust]

9. Exactly.

Anybody who had never done anything like that would categorically deny it as libelous, maybe even file a defamation suit.

[shanti]

11. So...he's done it more than once?

Geez, he just cannot keep from stepping in it!