GOP Gov. Pat McCrory in a remarkable tail spin.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is either living in an alternate universe or he's blatantly lying to dig his way out of the sinkhole he's created with his bill targeting LGBTQ people for discrimination. He may call this damage control, but we call it bullshit.

Lie # 1: It's not like Indiana

McCrory in an NBC interview:

"There's a branding effort by the advocates pushing this agenda, which are trying to compare the North Carolina with the Indiana situation—when there's absolutely no comparison."

In actuality, it's remarkably similar. Republican governor, living in a time-warp bubble, thinks he can score political points with his social conservative base by statutorily ensuring that people can legally discriminate against LGBT Americans. Indiana’s Gov. Pence destroyed his own political ambitions to run for higher office; McCrory is presently doing exactly the same. Good luck in your re-election this fall, governor, where Democratic AG Roy Cooper is getting ready to swamp you.

Lie #2: It's all meaningless "political theater"

From NBC:

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday dismissed criticism of a controversial new law curbing LGBT anti-discrimination protections as "political theater" that he says is concocted by left-wing activists, accusing them of a "calculated smear campaign" that included threatening local businesses to oppose the measure.

You call it "political theater," we call it our lives. When you can be fired from your job simply because you're gay, that's not "political theater," that's a livelihood. When you are forced to use a bathroom in which you clearly bear no resemblance to your peers, that's not "political theater," that's an invitation to be violently beaten. You may have no idea what it's like to live on the margins, governor, but your law ensures that people who do are now in far greater jeopardy.

But wait … he’s got more lies!