Couldn’t resist the comparison:

ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: Former DNC Chairman Don Fowler apologized on Sunday for joking in a private conversation that the timing of Hurricane Gustav demonstrates that God is on the side of the Democrats.

“If this offended anybody, I personally apologize,” Fowler told ABC News. “It was a mistake, and it was a satirical statement made in jest. And one that I clearly don’t believe.”

No doubt here that he was joking about it. And that it blew up at all is kinda stupid if you ask me.

But this is some funny shit right here:

Fowler was secretly recorded by the person sitting behind him while flying from Denver, Colo., to Charlotte, N.C., following the Democratic National Convention. His conversation with Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., was anonymously posted to YouTube and highlighted by RedState.com, a conservative blog.

“One doesn’t anticipate that one’s private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase,” said Fowler. “But that’s the nature of what we’re dealing with.”

… AND I WOULD’VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU DAMN KIDS!

Seriously Fowler … blaming “right wing nut cases” because you got caught? Lame, lame, lame.