Comments on: Art of the Apology http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-263705 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:53:05 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-263705 Read the President Reagan lines again: He did not apologize. Yes, he accepted responsibility by stating that he did so. But he actually avoided responsibility because he suffered no consequences. Neither did many of the other culpable people of President Reagan’s administration. Many went on to serve in the administration of Bush the Lesser.

And, anyone who can remember Watergate and the trauma to our nation cannot help but feel that the Republican war on President Clinton was far out of proportion to his crimes – which were in no way equivalent to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of President Nixon. President Clinton expressed remorse, something more than President Reagan did in his short so-called “apology.” President Clinton’s words are much closer to an apology than those of President Reagan because he did express remorse. I supported President Reagan, but damning Clinton’s words as a non-apology while characterizing the words of Reagan as an artful apology is disingenuous.

]]> By: The Stagecraft of Scandal: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Gives Public Apology with Wife in a Church « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-6196 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:46:16 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-6196 [...] course, as noted in this prior column, the art of the public apology was perfected by Bill [...]

]]> By: Dover http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-113 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:02:00 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/09/07/art-of-the-apology/#comment-113 It’s unfortunate that, in hindsight, the focus is Martha Stewart and President Clinton. I say “in hindsight” because their crimes were mere nothings compared to the likes of Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Gonzales, Abrahmoff (sp?), and all the other neo-cons that plunged us into world-wide shame and contempt, atrocities against humankind, thievery, blackmail, and dismissal of our freedoms.

Today, it’s not about the cleverness of the non-apology. It’s the cleverness, the art of giving people everywhere the middle finger and telling all of us to go Cheney ourselves.

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