Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter in Linden, says he doesn't regret sharing his incendiary editorial calling for the KKK to 'night ride again'

The publisher of a rural Alabama newspaper who penned an incendiary column calling for the 'Ku Klux Klan to night ride again' is standing by his comments.

Goodloe Sutton, who publishes the Democrat-Reporter in Linden, defended his controversial piece published last week saying, 'Democrats have been terrible. The KKK are the nicest.'

Sutton, 80, sparked outrage when he shared the inflammatory editorial asking for the white supremacist group to rise again to squash Democrats in power in the February 14 issue of his paper.

He wrote he wished for 'the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again' against 'Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in America'.

Sutton reveals he doesn't regret sharing his controversial editorial.

'It got me about $10 million in free publicity. I know I would do it all over again,' he said to AL.com.

'Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again' against 'Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in America,’ Sutton wrote in the editorial (above)

'It got me about $10 million in free publicity. I know I would do it all over again,' Sutton said defending his controversial piece. The Democrat-Reporter's office in Linden, Alabama pictured above

He added people missed the point of his piece.

'The point of the editorial was ironic in that all these years, the FBI and the Department of Justice have been investigating the Klan and now, that shoe is on the other foot. (The FBI and Justice Department) are doing wrong and the Klan needs to investigate them. That’s what the point of (the editorial) was. Not a lot of people understand irony today,' he said.

Following his piece, he's been contacted by media from across the country.

'I walked into the coffee shop and some of my derelict friends said "here comes our celebrity,"' he said to the outlet.

He added that the backlash and criticism 'doesn't bother me one way or the other' and he's not bothered if he offends people saying, 'Hell, that's what we're supposed to do.'

He said he had a message for 'liberals' offended by his piece saying, 'It’s not their country. It’s our country and if they don’t like it, they can go to hell.'

Sutton defended his calls for the white supremacist groups to rise again and lynch DC politicians saying: 'Democrats have been terrible. The KKK are the nicest'

In his incendiary editorial he called for the KKK to launch lynching attacks against Democrats because they were allegedly plotting to raise taxes in Alabama

Sutton made headlines last Thursday after he published the controversial piece and it sparked outrage online.

'If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we'd all been better off,' Sutton wrote in the editorial.

He said the KKK would be 'welcome to raid the gated communities' in D.C. where 'Democrats and Democrats in the Republican Party' live to retaliate against elected officials allegedly 'plotting to raise taxes in Alabama'.

When asked to specify what he meant by 'clean out D.C.,' Sutton brought up lynching.

'We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,' Sutton said.

As a result of his firestorm piece, he was stripped of his place in the University of Southern Mississippi's Mass Communications and Journalism Hall of Fame and censured by the Alabama Press Association.

Following the public outcry, U.S. Sen. Doug Jones called for Sutton to step down.

His family has operated the local newspaper since 1917. He says he's in the process of selling the paper which has a circulation of 3,000 and is working on writing books.

According to USA Today, the paper has a history of 'racial headlines' which readers excused as 'Goodloe being Goodloe.'