Posted on 07/25/2005 2:57:50 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
In the annals of feckless non-apology apologies, the one just served up by PA Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll scrapes the bottom of the barrel.
Check out the article below, and note this turn of phrase: "If my regard for his family's grief was seen another way, it is thoroughly regrettable."
In other words, what is regrettable is not her awful behavior, but the way the Marine's family saw it. Sickening.
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Slain Marine's Family Gets Apology For Funeral Comments
POSTED: 11:44 am EDT July 25, 2005
PITTSBURGH -- After being criticized for attending a Marine's funeral, Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll sent a public, written apology to the man's widow on Monday.
The funeral was held last week for Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, 32, of Pittsburgh's Westwood section. Goodrich died July 10 in Iraq.
Family members said Knoll came to the funeral uninvited, passed out business cards and made a remark about the government being against the war.
Gov. Ed Rendell said Sunday that the state does not have a position on the war, and it supports the men and women who are fighting. He also said written apologies would be sent to the family.
Goodrich's sister, Rhonda, told Channel 4 Action News that Knoll called and left an apology on her voice mail, along with her phone number and an invitation to call back.
On Monday afternoon, Knoll's office released a letter of apology to Goodrich's wife.
"Sgt. Goodrich's service was beyond the call of duty. If my regard for his family's grief was seen another way, it is thoroughly regrettable. The fact that you have been offended deserves and receives my most profound apology," the letter said.
She must have gotten advise from Durbin on how to (not) apologize
The new trick of the Left:
If you're going to trash America or Americans, or you're going to vote for an outright America-hater, be sure to wave your American flag so everyone thinks you love your country.
This p.o.s. and her excuses are garbbage.
Using a soldiers funeral as a place to press for votes is disgusting.
Too bad someone in the family didn't kick het ass out.
I should forward this story along to the folks at the Black Table and await classification of this particular apology.
ping
This person should not be lieutenant governor any longer.
Oh, Fast Eddy...
What the (bleep) kind of apology was that?
Arrrrggh!
The slap in the face variety.
Like the "sorriest" of dems, she is sorry she got caught.
Yeah, I know. Hence the (bleep).
It makes me want to kick her @ss...and I'm not even related! I'm holding my sailor's tongue as best I can here.
So, Rendell's Lt. Governor, Catherine Baker Knoll, IS NOT sorry that she was using a killed-in-action Marine as a campaign prop, but she IS sorry that that offends the Marine's family?? Staggers the mind....
Unfortunately, stuff like this is not surprising. I suppose if the Democrats can't find a funeral for a Senator who has been killed in a plane crash to use for a campaign rally, a Marine's funeral will have to do. Democrats are some sick, sick dogs.
Ping.
"If my regard for his family's grief was seen another way, it is thoroughly regrettable."
Sounds remarkably like Durbin's phoney apology. The rats must all go to the same School for Fake Apologies.
Ping.
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