The blowhard publisher of a West Village newspaper who headlined a July opinion piece about President Obama “The N—-r in the White House” finally apologized last week — sort of.
“I should never have allowed that title — that word to be printed — that word is the most offensive in the American language,” writes WestView News’ George Capsis, 86, using the fully spelled-out N-word seven times in the meandering mea culpa dryly headlined “I Apologize.”
In the ham-handed, front-page essay, Capsis pins part of the blame on the author of the Obama article, fellow octogenarian Jim Collier, who he says submitted the offending headline every month only to be met by a “chorus of no’s” from editors.
“In an angry moment . . . Jim offered to stop writing for the paper if we did not print the title,” he says.
Capsis then recounts his 15 minutes of fame, recalling how his Web site generated more than 100,000 hits after the incendiary headline — first reported last month by The Post — went viral. His phone rang off the hook, he says, from readers offering encouragement.
“ ‘I’m from Texas — attah boy, give it to them’ and ‘You must have had a hard day,’ and even though this guy was probably sitting in his Klan robes, I was grateful,” Capsis writes.