What a week its been for apologies; have you been keeping track?
Top 10 Apologies of the Week
1. Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, apologizes for being hammered in public and smoking crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor.
2. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), apologized for plagiarizing or failing to properly attribute material he borrowed from Wikipedia, the Heritage Foundation, the libertarian Cato Institute and other sources in his speeches and his recently released book.
3. President Obama apologizes for cancelled health plans.
4. Lara Logan, CBS correspondent, apologizes for contradictory reports from one of her sources regarding the Benghazi attack.
5. Sharon Osbourne apologized for telling the hosts of the View (save Barbara Walters) to `` go f--k themselves."
6. Online auction site eBay has apologized for selling Holocaust memorabilia, including the clothes of concentration camp victims.
7. Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: "Which drummer is not like the others?"
8.) New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton apologized to fans for their slow start (1-3) and asked for their patience.
9.) Eric Erickson of the The North Carolina Department of Transportation apologized after sending out a series of bizarre traffic alert messages, warning drivers to “Stay home because of women drivers, rain, and Obamacare.”
10.) Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel apologized to his television audience for suggesting that "killing everyone in China" could be a solution to America's debt problem.
-Bill Lucey
WPLucey@gmail.com
November 8, 2013
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