LOL from Slate - "Professional Victim Pat McCrory Has Slid Into Paranoia and Delusions of Grandeur"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/03/14/pat_mccrory_a_paranoid_delusional_professional_victim.html

Professional Victim Pat McCrory Has Slid Into Paranoia and Delusions of Grandeur

By Mark Joseph Stern

Pat McCrory was supposed to have another job by now. After voters tossed the former Republican North Carolina governor out of office—thanks in large part to HB2, the deeply unpopular anti-LGBTQ bill he championed—McCrory groveled at Trump Tower, clearly expecting a consolation prize from the new president. But here we are in mid-March, and Donald Trump, who famously dislikes losers, has yet to offer him a role in the new administration.


Bereft of employment, McCrory has slid into the role of professional victim, blaming his humiliating downfall on LGBTQ advocates, corporations, protesters, nonprofits, athletic leagues, transgender children, “silent” conservatives, and pretty much everyone but himself. Recently, he took his tearful tirade to the podcast Listening In, whining to host Warren Cole Smith, who is best known for declaring that Mitt Romney’s Mormonism made him unfit for public office. The interview provides a fascinating glimpse into McCrory’s troubled mind, revealing that he veers between extreme paranoia and rather piteous delusions of grandeur. Here are some highlights from McCrory and Smith’s 20-minute conversation.

1. McCrory says he can’t get a job because of HB2.

The Human Rights Campaign led the public opposition to HB2, criticizing the bill for barring transgender people from certain public bathrooms. In his interview, McCrory repeatedly blamed the HRC for his defeat, asserting that the group is “more powerful than NRA.”

“I said that nine months ago and everyone laughed,” McCrory confided in Smith, “and now everyone’s going, ‘you know, maybe they are,’ because they put their pressure on corporations. The NRA puts pressure on politicians. The HRC puts public pressure, threatened boycotts on major corporations through the U.S. with a false narrative, and it worked.”

(For the record, the NRA also “puts pressure” on corporations, boycotting any gun manufacturers that agree to make firearms safer.)

“Even after I left office,” McCrory continued, “people are reluctant to hire me because, ‘oh my gosh, he’s a bigot,’ which is the last thing I am. I’m actually in some ways rather liberal on some of these issues. I’m a libertarian on many of these issues. But I don’t think a city government or state government or federal government should be able to tell the private sector what the new definition of gender is.”

Smith later asked McCrory to elaborate on this allegation, but McCrory would not specify who had refused to hire him or in what context. Indeed, when pressed on this claim, McCrory seemed to walk it back, then changed the subject.

SNIP - MUCH more on our pathetic former governor. What an asshole!

[world wide wally]

1. I guess he and Trump are the two least bigoted people in the world.

[cwydro]

2. Ha. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, more powerful than the NRA

Right. You keep telling yourself that, Pat, just because the Human Rights Campaign bulls-eyed such a fat, slow-moving target as you, you think they're more power than the NRA. Try crossing the terrorists at the NRA some time, and compare things.

As it is, I see "Help Wanted" signs at McDonald's all over the place, I understand a lot of farmers are running short of field workers to get their crops in thanks to your Republican compatriots. Why don't you put on some work clothes - if you have any - and get your soft, manicured hands dirty in the fields for a few weeks?

[dalton99a]

4. McCrory is lying

He probably has something lined up with the fundies or a RW outfit.