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Jerry:

You brought it up.

Mel Gibson's apology: full text

Statement released by Mel Gibson on August 1 over his tirade during drink-driving arrest

There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.

"I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologise directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words.

"The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God’s child, and if I wish to honour my God I have to honour his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.

"I’m not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one-on-one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.

"I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realising is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery.

"Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed.

"This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognising the consequences hurtful words can have. It’s about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad."

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Cynthia McKinney’s apology for the incident when she struck a Congressional security guard.

Read on the floor of congress

Statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives
By Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney
April 6, 2006

Thank you Mr. Speaker,

I come before this body to personally express, again, my sincere regret about the
encounter with the Capitol Hill Police. I appreciate my colleagues who are standing with me, who love this institution and who love this country. There should not have been any physical contact in this incident.

I have always supported law enforcement, and will be
voting for H. Res. 756 expressing my gratitude and appreciation to the professionalism and dedication of the men and women of the U.S. Capitol Police. I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation. And I apologize.

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Your assignment is to reduce, through recursive semantic analysis, both apologies to 10 words or less.

my thoughts tomorrow.

otpu
My

Let's see.

Mel: I screwed up. I'm really sorry. I want to make amends. (11 words. Sorry.)

Cynthia: "Damn cracker cop touched me, he shouldn't have done that."

9 words. Oh, well, the average is 10...

J.

Good summary Jerry.
That's pretty much my assessment too.

You're right about the trains.
I heard about it, but it sure wasn't headline stuff.

Why should it be headline material? Bomb, Arabic writing on bag - it's obviously a prank or something. Nothing to see here, move along...

I wonder when MSM newsbabes are going to don the burqua...

J.

Recursive semantic reduction of the Mel Gibson apology:

"I screwed up, I'm sorry. I'll get help, I promise."

ten words two contractions.

Recursive semantic reduction of Cynthia Mckinney apology:

"Don't you know who I am? I didn't do nothing! Screw you!"

eleven words two contractions.

actually I like Jerry's Cynthia Mckinney analysis better.

otpu