No, I'm not fucking joking.
'"My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice-President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week," Whittington told reporters outside Christus Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. "We send our love and respect to them as they deal with situations that are much more serious than what we have had this week.'
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That is just...well...I...fnu...glph. I shouldn't be surprised at anything anymore, and in the greater scheme of things...and yet, and yet. Apologizing to the guy who shot you in the face and triggered your heart attack is just such a fucking on-the-nail symbol of everything that's wrong with this administration and what it represents that now I am fully expecting them all to come equipped with their own personal theme music and a thunderclap and lightning bolt after every public statement. This is just not even happening. This is some fucked up screenwriter's nightmare we're all stuck in. Someone who apparently thought that the problem with "Revenge of the Sith" was that it was just too fucking subtle. Someone who watched a Monty Python episode and concluded that it was a documentary. YO, ASSHAT, TIME TO WAKE UP AND GET US SOME FUCKING REWRITE.
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But it's not really an apology, is it? An apology implies some taking of responsibility, which Whittington didn't do (nor should he have, of course); "I'm sorry my face got in the way of Dick's shot" would have been an apology.
I read Whittington's statement more as "what a shame this happened to such a good man who has so many other responsibilities to deal with," which (getting past my visceral loathing of Cheney for a moment) seems an entirely appropriate response.
Well, if you want to get all technical about it.
Look, here's the bottom line for me, mkay:
For the first several days, Cheney's people imply that it was Whittington's fault for sneaking up behind him. Cheney finally makes an appearance and allows as how he's the guy who pulled the trigger, so, oops, his bad. Does not utter the words "I'm sorry" at all. Mentions that it was the worst day of his life. Of HIS life.
The guy who's actually pickin' birdshot out of his face, HE'S "sorry" about what a hard time CHENEY'S gone through. Is that ordinary graciousness? Is that what's called for? Or is that "please don't come over and finish the job, Mr. Sneering Scary Man"?
I thought your rant was the best I've read on the "apology."
Someone who watched a Monty Python episode and concluded that it was a documentary.
Hell, yeah.
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