by sumac | Dec 31, 2012 | Political Apologies
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo was arrested for drunk driving on December 23, in Alexandria, Virginia. Especially awkward because he has apparently said he doesn’t drink alcohol (as a Mormon thing). I gather that’s pronounced KRAY po. Okay? The man has enough...
by sumac | Dec 26, 2012 | Political Apologies
In 1998, then-Senator Chuck Hagel criticized President Bill Clinton’s nomination of James Hormel to be U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Ambassadors represent America, “our lifestyle, our values, our standards,” Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald. “I think it is an...
by snarly | Dec 4, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Newspaper “regret the error” corrections can be amusing. Sometimes they’re more than that. On July 4, 2004, The Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY ran a front-page correction: “It has come to the editor’s attention that the...
by sumac | Nov 27, 2012 | Historical Apologies, Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Campbell Newman, the Premier of Queensland, Australia, has just apologized for a quarter-century of stolen babies. From the 1950s to the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of single women in Australia were forced to give up babies for adoption. They were bullied, misled,...
by sumac | Nov 15, 2012 | Political Apologies
On Election Day, after an Obama rally in Colorado, reporter Dave Philipps intercepted Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for a few questions. He asked two puffy ones about Salazar’s whirlwind of campaign stops and what he’d cite as his big accomplishment in...
by snarly | Nov 14, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Local Fox News anchor if-apologizes (“if-apology” definition: if anyone was offended/if you don’t understand my sense of humor/if my job is in jeopardy unless I backpedal in some half-assed manner, then I APOLOGIZE, OK?) for saying “Rachel...
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