No, you $&!@* jerk, you WERE maligning them specifically! What the heck else would telling them they "behaved stupidly" be but a specific malignment???
I hate hate hate weasel words. You didn't "choose your words poorly." You didn't "misspeak." You didn't "fail to properly calibrate" your words (What is that supposed to mean?). You didn't create a "teachable moment" for us all to learn from.
No, you just ran at the mouth with your true thoughts, and now you're too teensy-weensy small of a human being to offer up a true apology. Pathetic, pathetic, PATHETIC.
The left are weasels...what do you expect? :>)