"Super Size Me" filmmaker apologizes for speech at high school

Times Leader/AP ^ | 3/28/2006

[ThirstyMan]

This looks like a classic non-apology apology. The guy is speaking weaselese here. (JMHO)

yeah my thoughts exactly.

It's a "new age" apology. I apologize for you being offended instead of being sorry for my own offensive behavior...that actually caused the offense.

So yes, it is a "non-apology apology".

[Celtic Conservative]

..I wonder if I drank a case of beer everyday for 30 days in a row..would I then say that beer is bad for you????

Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. But your chances of voting Democrap would increase substantially ;^)

[gura]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3805747721333479109&q=whitest&pl=true

[CFC__VRWC]

This looks like a classic non-apology apology. The guy is speaking weaselese here. (JMHO)

Yep, and with a big helping of "Oh, I was only joking!" thrown in.

[bondjamesbond]

"Having done work with special needs children in the past, something this hurtful would never come from my lips," he wrote.

And yet it did.

Frankly, the school got what they paid for. If they didn't know this guy was a jerk, they just have not been paying attention.

You hire a jerk to make a speech, he's going to say stupid things. DUH!

[bondjamesbond]

Why the hell can't people just apologize instead of making caveats all the time.

I think people think it makes them sound smart, like a lawyer or something. In fact, it just makes a person sound like a pretentious jerk who is trying to weasel out of something.

[jimbo123]

Another "compassionate" liberal shows his true colors...

[HitmanLV]

Spurlock hasn't gotten over his dud of a tv show crashing & burning a while back. He is a low talent.

[Tribune7]

ping

[HitmanLV]

I don't like that kind of tentative talk in apologies, either/ "IF I MIGHT had said anything, that MAY have offended...."

That's just not an apology. To me, a meaningful apology at least must 1. unambiguously acknowledge that the person has done wrong, and 2. isn't heavily solicited.

[Brytani]

I have seen Super Size Me and felt he was nothing more than a leftist with an agenda. However, he did make some VERY good points in his documentary, once that it is hard to deny.

I do have a problem with foods served in most public schools especially when there are few choices but high fat, high carb, high sugar meals. Nobody can deny we do not have an epidemic of overweight children and adults in our country.

However, making a point of our public school lunch programs by eating every meal for 30 days at McDonald's is well ridiculous.

Anyone who is stupid enough to eat that trash food only each day of their life deserves to die of a heart attack at 30 and any parent who would allow their child to eat nothing but McDonald's deserves a solid trashing. Most people however do not eat the food even close to the amount he stuffed in his face.

I'm not surprised he insulted people during his presentation. After all, he is among the liberal elite. Those who look down upon anyone who doesn't follow in lock-step with their agenda. When facts fail you, insults work is the motto of the left.

[HungarianGypsy]

Obviously not as publicized by the media was a story of a woman who ate at McDonald's for 30 days and actually lost weight and was healthier. She was doing it to prove it's about what people choose to eat. Most of her meals were the salads.

[GOP_Raider]

Great pic for a "Caption This!" thread!

How does Michael Moore do it??

[Brytani]

Choice clearly makes a difference when eating fast food. By eating salads and a low-calorie/fat dressing, I wouldn't be surpised if she did indeed lose weight.

However, you've got to wonder how many people who do eat at McDonald's a few times a week pick the salad option over the Big Mac, Large Fries and Coke choice....

I'd love to see a breakdown on sales nationally. I wonder what percentage of McD's sales are the more healthy options.

[bigdcaldavis]

PING

Enough of the false left-right paradigms. Morgan Spurlock is an inbred NWO globalist propagandist. He doesn't give a rat's ass about liberals, conservatives, Democrats, or Republicans. All he cares about are his fellow NWO butt-buddies. After all, he admits to being a card-carrying member of the ACLU, a communist organization which cares not about "civil liberties" but about "equal treatment", which unfortunately also means "equal enslavement".