Here's a joke for you. What does longtime South Carolina Republican activist Rusty DePass call a gorilla that escaped from the zoo? Michelle Obama's ancestor! Funny, right? Right?

The best part is that he made the comment on Facebook. Apparently the olds, having never texted naked pictures of themselves as teenagers, are still learning the hard lesson that anything you post in a public forum is pretty much guaranteed to come back to haunt you.

Local Republicans called the remark "sad, disappointing and unfortunate." Perhaps realizing his own mistake, DePass apologized, even though he said he was making a comment on Obama's belief in evolution. Check out a video on the whole brouhaha after the jump.