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Showing posts with label Apologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apologies. Show all posts

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Don Surber commentary: Rush apologizes

Rush apologizes

March 3, 2012 by Don Surber


Do I get result or not? Forget boycotts and the like, when I speak Rush Limbaugh listens. I called on him at 7 AM to apologize.


For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.

I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress…

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What happened was simple: He tried to use a lefty way to counter what a lefty did. He tried to demonize her like the left did with Sarah Palin but he could not get away with that because…

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The Left will not forgive or forget this incident which means, of course, absolutely nothing. It does not matter if they accept the apology. Let them chatter among themselves. Let them distort what he says because heaven forbid if the Left accurately quoted him. Really, who cares what people on the Left think?

But fairness required an apology. It matters what we conservatives think about him and about ourselves.

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Read Mr. Surber’s entire commentary here: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/52411

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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Rush Limbaugh apologizes to Georgetown law student for insulting her

The Washington PostSaturday, March 3, 2012 6:14:02 PM
POLITICS NEWS ALERT 

Rush Limbaugh apologizes to Georgetown law student for insulting her

Conservative talk show host posted the apology on his Web site: "... I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke," wrote Rush Limbaugh, who on Friday vilified student Sandra Fluke for her public support of health plans that cover the cost of contraceptives.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rush-limbaugh-apologizes-to-georgetown-law-student-for-insulting-her/2012/03/03/gIQAtaJKpR_story.html

Or visit PostPolitics.com.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Greta Van Susteren: Full Transcript of Letterman’s Apology


June 15, 2009 10:27 PM EDT

David Letterman: “All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah."

"But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the Governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani … And I really should have made the joke about Rudy…” (audience applauds)

“But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself.

“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ – this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly – ” (audience applause) “– thank you. Well, my responsibility – I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds)

“Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.” (audience applause)


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http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/15/full-transcript-of-lettermans-apology/

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Should Letterman and CBS be worried?

This is what the CBS legal department probably doesn't want known:
Did you know this? in most jurisdictions someone (Letterman) accusing an unmarried person (Willow Palin, age 14) of being unchaste (knocked up by A-Rod) is libel per se?

That means that the mere statement is presumed to cause damage to the person...in other words, utter the unchaste words and you better open your wallet since it is libel per se. Claiming now it was a joke is not a defense...plus, in this case, I bet the joke was vetted by several layers of writers at CBS which means CBS could have problems.


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