Don Vito Corleone
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Bob Cotas gave his non-apology apology.
it was similar to saying 'sorry I beat my wife in public, in private is better'
He said nothing that warrants any apology, nor did he "apologize" in anything like the fashion your analogy suggests. Instead, what he essentially said was that it was a mistake to have compressed a topic involving this level of nuance into such a short segment, because it didn't allow him to address it in a completely clear way. From http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tas-calls-jovan-belcher-commentary-a-mistake/ -
Bob Costas said he made a “mistake,” violating his own rule of not trying to compress a nuanced topic into small bit of air time, with his controversial halftime commentary Sunday night on the murder-suicide committed by Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs the day before.
“My mistake is I left it open for too much miscommunication,” Costas said in a lengthy interview on “The Dan Patrick Show.” The 90-second weekly spot, he said, doesn’t offer enough time in which to adequately discuss the issue of “the football culture, the gun culture, domestic violence.”
“For a long time, I’ve been wanting to get off my chest my disgust with this idea that every time something tragic happens, no matter what it may be, that in any way touches sports, there’s a chorus of people saying, ‘you know, this really puts it in perspective.’ Which is a bunch of nonsense, because if that was true, we wouldn’t have to have that perspective adjusted every time the next tragedy occurs. It’s a bunch of nonsense,” Costas said. “And what I was trying to say was, that if you want some perspective on this, there are a number of issues related to this that we could begin to talk about and think about. The problem was that I didn’t have enough time to get to many of them. And that, I think, was my mistake, to be quite honest, Dan. A friend of mine in broadcasting pointed this out to me yesterday, and I agree with him. He said, ‘you violated your own rule.’ Because we have had this discussion before: I’ve always said, if you’re going to get into touchy topics, nuanced topics, make sure that you have enough time to flesh them out … or save them for forums where you do. In this particular situation, the timeliness of it was, if you’re going to comment on it at all, it had to be this Sunday.”
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I find it continually irritating that this forum so often devolves into a kind of group-think mentality where no dissenting voices can be permitted. There are altogether too many people here who lack the ability to discuss things in earnest without just marginalizing voices they disagree with. The level of discussion here disappoints me altogether too often for my taste.
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