I Apologize If You’re Offended
2010-10-22 - by
It has to be the most insincere and overused political phrase of the year: “I apologize if anyone was offended by what I said.”
In other words, “you’re an oversensitive wimp to be upset about what I said but I’ve got to make some kind of apology to satisfy the media.”
The latest:
Tom Fetzer re Hugh Holliman: “I told him that I was sorry if the mailer caused him or his family any anguish,”
Jerry Brown’s “infuriatingly insincere sounding apology wrapped in excuses” to Meg Whitman:
Saying “whore” is not equivalent to using the N-word. It was a “five-week-old private conversation picked up on a cell phone….I’m not even sure it’s legal” to have released the tape….I’m sorry it happened. That does not represent anything other than things that happen in a campaign.”
I yearn to hear: “I’m sorry. I screwed up.”
I Apologize If You’re Offended
2010-10-22/
It has to be the most insincere and overused political phrase of the year: “I apologize if anyone was offended by what I said.”
In other words, “you’re an oversensitive wimp to be upset about what I said but I’ve got to make some kind of apology to satisfy the media.”
The latest:
Tom Fetzer re Hugh Holliman: “I told him that I was sorry if the mailer caused him or his family any anguish,”
Jerry Brown’s “infuriatingly insincere sounding apology wrapped in excuses” to Meg Whitman:
Saying “whore” is not equivalent to using the N-word. It was a “five-week-old private conversation picked up on a cell phone….I’m not even sure it’s legal” to have released the tape….I’m sorry it happened. That does not represent anything other than things that happen in a campaign.”
I yearn to hear: “I’m sorry. I screwed up.”