by sumac | May 23, 2016 | Political Apologies
In 1954, Ethel Payne was a reporter for The Chicago Defender, the biggest black-run newspaper in the nation. The Defender had sent her to Washington. She’d had a White House press credential for 3 months, the 3rd black reporter ever to do so, but hadn’t...
by sumac | Mar 16, 2016 | Political Apologies
In Wisconsin, there’s an electoral race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. (Judicial seats are sometimes filled by appointment, sometimes by election. I disapprove of the election method.) Now in the seat is Rebecca Bradley. She had planned to run for the...
by sumac | Mar 6, 2016 | Corporate Apologies, Political Apologies
Lands’ End, respected purveyor of serviceable clothing, put out a fancy catalog. It contained an interview at which some people directed a fury campaign. The company apologized. The apology infuriated different people, generating another fury campaign. The...
by sumac | Feb 3, 2016 | Political Apologies
A person running for president said something snide, and later said he was apologizing for it. Sounds good until you seek the apology. The candidate isn’t expressing regret, he’s piling insults higher. In an ugly self-serving tirade – understandably...
by sumac | Jan 12, 2016 | Political Apologies
We’ve gotten requests to do the apology/non-apology/semi-apology of Paul LePage, Governor of Maine. Non-apologies are a LePage specialty, as we’ll see. We try not to do non-apologies but there is also a despicable phony apology in the current mess, so...
by sumac | Nov 12, 2015 | Political Apologies
Apparently Marco Rubio doesn’t show up at the Senate much. Me neither, but nobody elected me Senator. Rubio asked to be elected, so the fact that he doesn’t turn up much is noteworthy. Noteworthy? So noted! His opponents in the Republican presidential race...
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