http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/apology/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:05:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285821/posts A Letter to Our Readers By Katharine Weymouth Sunday, July 5, 2009 Dear Reader: I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind. But let me be clear: The flier was not the only... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285821/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:05:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285916/posts Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan Washington Post publisher apologizes for plan to hold paid dinners with officials, journalists On Sunday July 5, 2009, 6:59 am EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Post's publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper's journalists. A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor one of a series of dinner parties that would include off-the-record conversations with Post journalists and access to Washington insiders. The series was canceled Thursday. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285916/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:20:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285656/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Just in time for the document’s 233rd anniversary, President Barack Obama has issued an executive order apologizing to Great Britain for America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776. IMAO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285656/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:03:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285271/posts The Huffington Post issued an apology Friday evening for an article about the resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted at their website entitled, Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform, written by HuffPo writer Erik Sean Nelson.The Daily Dose published an e-mail apology from Mario Ruiz of HuffPo: Due to an editorial lapse, Erik Sean Nelson’s post on Sarah Palin bypassed the normal vetting process and appeared on HuffPost — but was never featured anywhere on the site. Even though satiric works are generally given greater latitude, Nelson’s post falls outside of HuffPost’s editorial guidelines. As such,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285271/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 04:38:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284488/posts Well, that "feel good" moment the Dems hoped for, as well as a July 7th photo op, is down the drain. The Dem controlled Senate was smug in their delight of passing a formal apology for past US generations INRE slavery and Jim Crow segregation.... until it hit the House and a face off with House Black Caucus members, that is. The Senate found that out two weeks ago when it passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to apologize formally for more than three centuries of enslavement and segregation of African-Americans. Senators thought they'd done the right thing. The... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284488/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:50:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280505/posts Gov. Mark Sanford tried to get back to work Friday, apologizing to his Cabinet, comparing himself to the biblical figure David and retreating to the familiar territory of federal stimulus money and declining state revenue estimates. Friday’s anything-but-normal Cabinet meeting was Sanford’s first official business since admitting Wednesday to an affair with a woman from Argentina. Sanford also reaffirmed he had no plans to resign and that he had only been unfaithful to his wife, Jenny, once. Sanford’s denial of other infidelities can after a Web site run by a former Sanford staffer on Friday named two other alleged lovers.... The State, Columbia, SC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280505/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280186/posts South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford apologized on Friday to his state agency chiefs for secretly going to Argentina last week to see his mistress. Meanwhile, the last Republican governor of the state prior to Sanford called on him to "clear the air" over any remaining questions about his state-funded trip to the South American country a year ago. Sanford held his typical public meeting with the agency chiefs, but started with apologies and likened his confession and future to the biblical plight of King David. Sanford said King David fell mightily but picked up the pieces and built from there.... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280186/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279393/posts Iranian thug in chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is following the “belligerent tyrant” script to the letter; he’s demanding an apology from Barack Obama, and accusing Obama of behaving like George W. Bush. Meanwhile, the demonstrations are subsiding, due to overwhelming force and brutality from Iranian security forces and Basij militia. Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279393/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279010/posts "Mr. Obama made a mistake to say those things ... our question is why he fell into this trap and said things that previously (former U.S. President George W.) Bush used to say," the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. "Do you want to speak (with Iran) with this tone? If that is your stance then what is left to talk about," said Ahmadinejad. "I hope you avoid interfering in Iran's affairs and express your regret in a way that the Iranian nation is informed of it." The state-owned newspaper, Iran, reported Thursday that in addition to the... FOXNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279010/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:07:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277218/posts The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week apologizing "to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws."The horrors of chattel slavery remain unimaginable for most of us who never suffered them, and it's never wrong to express regret for such a regretful institution. But why is the Senate apologizing now? "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," said a puzzled Sen. Tom Harkin, leading sponsor of the resolution. Maybe it's because America had already paid a... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277218/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276341/posts The resolution passed Thursday includes a disclaimer saying that nothing in it supports or authorizes reparations by the United States. Black Planet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276341/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:44:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275883/posts The Senate unanimously passed a resolution on June 18 that “apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws.” Sorry, Senate, but you’re not speaking on my behalf. Slavery and Jim Crow were evil, all right, but your resolution is divisive and evasive. It is divisive insofar as it forgets E pluribus unum and suggests that some Americans need to apologize to other Americans, and of course the division is by skin color. It is evasive insofar as it inevitably... Pajamas MEdia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275883/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275683/posts YOU DECIDE: After coming under fire from almost all quarters for her snippy request should the senator take a deep breath and apologize to the general? Share your thoughts: First, vote in our poll and then click on “Leave a Comment” below. Fox News Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275683/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275468/posts Aside from a briefly worded statement about a "friendly" conversation she had with an Army brigadier general after dressed him down a day earlier for calling her "ma'am," Sen. Barbara Boxer remained silent Friday in the face of growing criticism as to whether she owed an apology. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275468/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275085/posts The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery, making way for a joint congressional resolution and the latest attempt by the federal government to take responsibility for 2 1/2 centuries of slavery. "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote. "It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice." The Senate's apology follows a similar apology passed last year by the House. One key difference is that the Senate version explicitly deals with the long-simmering issue of whether slavery... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275085/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274931/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery. The nonbinding resolution sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is similar to a House resolution adopted last year that acknowledged the wrongs of slavery but offered no reparations. The House will have to vote on the issue again because the composition of that chamber changed after last November's elections. The resolution was approved on a voice vote. Because it is nonbinding, it does not have to be forwarded to the president for his signature. Several states have passed similar resolutions, but... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274931/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:35:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274524/posts hope everyone feels better now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274524/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273290/posts [snip] Palin benefits from putting the idea of defiling her 14-year-old daughter out there -- even though she knows it was a mistake -- so that makes her no better than Letterman, and possibly even a little bit worse. [snip] Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273290/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:18:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272896/posts Do you accept Letterman's apology? Yes No Not Sure News Talk 790 KNST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272896/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272733/posts David Letterman re addressed the Sarah Palin issue with a more complete apology instead of the first attempt at it which was more of the same condescending BS that we've all come to expect from this man after twenty years of shredding conservatives as a full fledged card carrying liberal (video) Here's the actual apology, better than the first but as I said last night at the bottom on the original post before the show, no apology for calling Palin and airline stewardesses all sluts.......(video2)...more Chicago Ray Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272733/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272697/posts Letterman issued the apology on his show, Monday, June 15th after his initial apology, which he attempted to make light of, came under fire from supporters of Governor Palin. The Freedom Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272697/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272632/posts On Monday night's "Late Show" host David Letterman re-addressed his comments about Gov. Sarah Palin and her teenage daughter. Letterman made a more serious apology than his response last week. "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," Letterman said. The post has the full transcript and the video. "Late Show" w/ David Letterman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272632/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:58:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272553/posts David Letterman took his biggest step to put the furor surrounding his jokes about Sarah Palin's daughters behind him during the taping of his show Monday. In remarks set to air Monday night obtained by FOXNews.com from a 'Late Show' rep, Letterman directly apologized to the Palin family for the coarse jokes he made last Monday. "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," Letterman told the studio audience. Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272553/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272539/posts David Letterman finally apologizes....albeit a crappy one that has this ridiculous line: It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood. Yup, big misunderstanding. As Jeri says in the below video, "honest officer, I didn't know she wasn't 18!" Here is the whole thing: 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... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272539/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2272530/posts ...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... thrfeed.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2272530/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:54:15 GMT