Apologies
Recently there has been a spate of apologizing, for example,
1. The Pope apologized to victims of pedophilia at the hands of Catholic priests and for the cover-up by higher Church authorities (excluding himself of course).
2. The Pope's personal priest (aren't his own prayers good enough?) Raniero Cantalamessa, in a sermon at the Vatican, compared the campaign against the Church due to the pedophilia scandal to anti-Semitism. What Catholic chutzpah, especially since the Church was responsible for both anti-Semitism and the cover-up of priestly pedophilia. After a brief delay the priest apologized to the Jewish community.
3. US President Obama has apologized to the world's Muslims on behalf of the USA in case they think that they have been improperly implicated in terrorism. He is having terms like "jihad" and "Muslim terrorism" removed from all US government documents. As if it never happened. By the way, who did those nasty deeds?
4. An Oxford student yelled "Kill the Jews" at Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, when he spoke at the Oxford Union in February. The President of the Oxford Union debating society apologized without real regret.
5. UC President Mark Yudof and campus Chancellor Michael Drake apologized for the students' behavior when Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was shouted down and 11 were arrested at UC Irvine in February.
6. A few of the British MPs who took expenses for houses they didn't own and for private work that they should have paid for, have apologized. No need to know their names since you won't be hearing from them again for a long time.
7. Of course, Tiger Woods apologized to his fans and his wife for having had affairs with supposedly 11 gorgeous women. Was he apologizing because the women were gorgeous, because there were so many of them or because he was caught. Anyway, not to trivialize the trivial, but who cares.
8. Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect.” “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” Mr. Reid said in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans, for my improper comments.”
9. Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning apologized Monday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for saying he believes she could die within a year from pancreatic cancer. "I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsberg," the two-term Kentucky junior senator said in a statement which misspelled Ginsburg's name.
10. It was reported from Gaza by most of the media that a teenager, Muhammad Ismail Al-Farmawi, 15, was shot dead near the Gaza border by Israeli forces. However, a few days later the boy turned up alive! He had infiltrated Egypt thru a tunnel under the Gaza border, had been imprisoned and tortured and then released. This is another example of the gullible western press accepting an uncorroborated Palestinian story. Will they never learn? However, in this case the media did not apologize!
1. The Pope apologized to victims of pedophilia at the hands of Catholic priests and for the cover-up by higher Church authorities (excluding himself of course).
2. The Pope's personal priest (aren't his own prayers good enough?) Raniero Cantalamessa, in a sermon at the Vatican, compared the campaign against the Church due to the pedophilia scandal to anti-Semitism. What Catholic chutzpah, especially since the Church was responsible for both anti-Semitism and the cover-up of priestly pedophilia. After a brief delay the priest apologized to the Jewish community.
3. US President Obama has apologized to the world's Muslims on behalf of the USA in case they think that they have been improperly implicated in terrorism. He is having terms like "jihad" and "Muslim terrorism" removed from all US government documents. As if it never happened. By the way, who did those nasty deeds?
4. An Oxford student yelled "Kill the Jews" at Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, when he spoke at the Oxford Union in February. The President of the Oxford Union debating society apologized without real regret.
5. UC President Mark Yudof and campus Chancellor Michael Drake apologized for the students' behavior when Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was shouted down and 11 were arrested at UC Irvine in February.
6. A few of the British MPs who took expenses for houses they didn't own and for private work that they should have paid for, have apologized. No need to know their names since you won't be hearing from them again for a long time.
7. Of course, Tiger Woods apologized to his fans and his wife for having had affairs with supposedly 11 gorgeous women. Was he apologizing because the women were gorgeous, because there were so many of them or because he was caught. Anyway, not to trivialize the trivial, but who cares.
8. Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect.” “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” Mr. Reid said in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans, for my improper comments.”
9. Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning apologized Monday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for saying he believes she could die within a year from pancreatic cancer. "I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsberg," the two-term Kentucky junior senator said in a statement which misspelled Ginsburg's name.
10. It was reported from Gaza by most of the media that a teenager, Muhammad Ismail Al-Farmawi, 15, was shot dead near the Gaza border by Israeli forces. However, a few days later the boy turned up alive! He had infiltrated Egypt thru a tunnel under the Gaza border, had been imprisoned and tortured and then released. This is another example of the gullible western press accepting an uncorroborated Palestinian story. Will they never learn? However, in this case the media did not apologize!
posted by Jack Cohen at 7:26 AM
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