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NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne Apologizes For ‘Offensive’ Breastfeeding Tweets

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NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne apologized late Wednesday for controversial tweets he had written criticizing public breastfeeding. “I understand that my comments regarding breastfeeding posted on Twitter were offensive to some people,” Kahne acknowledged in a statement on his Facebook page. “For that, I apologize. It was in no way my intention to offend any mother who chooses to breastfeed her child, or, for that matter, anyone who supports breast feeding children. I want to make that clear.”

RELATED: NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne Slams Mothers Who Breastfeed In Public

Kahne earlier had tweeted he was grossed out to see a woman breastfeeding in a supermarket, hashtagging #nasty and said he didn’t feel like shopping or eating anymore after seeing it. After a woman told him she disagreed, he called her a “dumb bitch.”

“In all honestly, I was surprised by what I saw in a grocery store,” Kahne continued. “I shared that reaction with my fans on Twitter. It obviously wasn’t the correct approach, and, after reading your feedback, I now have a better understanding of why my posts upset some of you.”

“My comments were not directed at the mother’s right to breastfeed. They were just a reaction to the location of that choice, and the fashion in which it was executed on that occasion. I respect the mother’s right to feed her child whenever and wherever she pleases. ”

Kahne also apologized to the woman who he insulted after she had defended breastfeeding in public.

Read Kahne’s mea culpa below:

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  • http://www.davechen.info David Chen

    What’s the original offending tweet? what’s the insult? Where are links to these things? Where are the primary sources???

  • Anonymous

    I guess dbags can have some class too. 

  • Henry Wood

    Isn’t it neat when lawyers write apologies?

  • Anonymous

    Cited in the first story about this.  Cited in this story about this.  But Kahne, knowing he’s a dumbass and stepped over a line, deleted offending tweets to cover his ass.  I’m sure sponsors loved him calling fans “dumb bitch”  Good Times

  • http://twitter.com/Dawn96741 Dawn96741

    Here you go again James, “defending breastfeeding”. GET IT RIGHT. She called him a d**cheb*g.
    Let’s see her “man up” and apologize to him. Good grief, so biased!!!

  • Henry Wood

    He is a douchebag.  It’s a statement of fact.

    I wonder if her lawyer can write up a phony apology for her. 

    Something like this, perhaps:

    “I understand that my comments offended Dawn and that Nascar douchebag.  For that, I apologize. My comments were not directed at the right of a douchebag to be a douchebag.  They were just a reaction to people acting like douchebags and the fashion in which the douchebaggery was executed.”

  • Anonymous

    Little late for that! We already know his true self from the initial twitter posts. Just like Imus, really.

  • Tucsonense

    WHAT?????????? You have to be kidding? and you are a woman????!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Actually it wasn’t sited in the first story – what the women said to prompt such a response is never quoted.

  • Anonymous

    what do you expect? I mean the gentleman is a driver in NASCAR known to be a classy sport.

  • expatpatriot

    Dumb as dirt. “I apologize to those who would find being called ‘a bitch’ offensive.”

    Time to STFU, bub.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    I’m just as poor and stupid as you! Steer to the left.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

    Whoa!  You are a day late and a dollar short.  Keep up with the pace there bunky.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    This is what happens when Redneck NASCAR drivers start thinking their opinions matter and discussing issues other than driving a car in circles for hours!!

  • Anonymous

    A man who hates mammaries. Must be a Republican.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H4IBFR73BL2SHBPMPBLZRGJHKE ERIN

    I’m sure he doesn’t hate mammaries. He just hates that they are being used for their intended purpose instead of to sell beer or incite lust.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/HMWZ2BOVLZVWF4A45YHMVZ6LFA Irene

    I agree with him.  Women who make a show of breastfeeding usually do so to get attention.  The only think they can accomplish is getting knocked up.

  • Anonymous

    He’s too cute and adorable not to forgive him.

  • Anonymous

    His manhood has been deeply threatened.  Like most NASCAR types.  Mini-genitalia.

  • Anonymous

    At least he knew enough to apologize.  Most of these NARCAR farts are both narcissists and sociopaths.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000558072621 Garden Pheenix

    You’re a flaming moron. And if you replace flaming with another f word used as slang for sexual intercourse, you’ll get a better picture of what I am calling you. What an ignorant misogynistic a$$backwards thing to say. What’s it like to hate on your own gender, twat?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000558072621 Garden Pheenix

    His apology means NOTHING. He got berated for exposing his misogyny and ignorance and couldn’t take the heat so blurted out some bs apology in order to shut people up. His tweets were uncensored exampled of who he is as a man and he should be UTTERLY mortified and ashamed of himself. Makes me sick that impressionable minds could have been exposed to his disgusting attitude. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Crystal-Rhodes/1358457497 Crystal Rhodes

    Completely lost my support. Ill breastfeed my child any where and any time for as long as he chooses to do so.

  • Henry Wood

    That is so narrow-minded.  Boobs are also intended to sell cars, insurance, website domains, video games, ear phones, hamburgers, hot wings, wheel chairs…

    okay I made up that last one.

  • Tucsonense

    Are you for real? OBVIOUSLY you have never breast fed or been around ladies that have. There is NO SHOW in breast feeding. 

  • Anonymous

    Just another weak, needy little man. A typical descendant of …” Prickasaurus Rex.”

  • BooBoo Bear

    With your moniker of Irene..I’m trying to figure out a few things..1-You are a woman. 2a  Women do not breastfeed because they want to draw attention to themselves. Women breastfeed because their baby’s are hungry.2b-There are about 4 million births in the US annually. All 4 million need to be fed. Breast milk is better than formula 3-Would you rather that they have abortions?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I only watch public breast feeding for the crashes.

  • Anonymous

    So now he thinks it’s OK for liberal pigs to lop out a tit and feed the little piglet.
    BFD!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Hevnsent Hellbent

    The funny thing about this is that he tweeted for @knittingrad to DM him but he never followed her so that she could.

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