Bully cannot apologize for his “passion”
A couple of days ago a Republican congressional representative, John Yoho, called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “disgusting” to her face and then as he was walking away said aloud “fucking bitch.”
Today he staged a…what to call it…a resentful “explanation,” a weepy self-justification, a passive-aggressive attack claiming to be an apology.
AOC said that was not any kind of apology.
In his floor speech, Yoho apologized for the “the abrupt manner of the conversation I had with my colleague from New York,” but he denied calling Ocasio-Cortez “disgusting” and a “fucking bitch,” as the Hill reported.
The “abrupt manner”? Abrupt? Dude, shouty angry man calling woman names is not “abrupt.” It is, for a start, threatening. It’s aggressive, and male on female aggression is always threatening. You might even be able to figure out why if you think about it really hard.
“The offensive name-calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues, and if they were construed that way, I apologize for their misunderstanding,” the Florida Republican said.
Ah ah ah no you don’t, you chickenshit. Where is the speaker who cause those words to be “spoken”? That speaker was you. You mean “I never spoke those words to my colleagues,” so say it that way. Did you omit the speaking agent because the lie feels too obvious that way?
He went on to describe how he is “passionate” about fighting for those experiencing poverty. “I cannot apologize for my passion or for loving my God, my family and my country,” Yoho said.
Who asked him to? Who asked him to apologize for loving his god or his family? How is that even relevant? He also had the bad taste to get all emo (or to pretend to get all emo) when he said them.
A bully and a chickenshit and a whiner.
It’s the politician’s apology: I’m sorry…that you’re offended :)
On steroids.
I sometimes think people here are too hard on people’s apologies that seem sincere to me.
Then we have this clown.
What a pile of garbage. The passive tense to describe his own actions is bad enough, but the weaselly way he tries to imply he didn’t use that insult while not actually technically saying that is reprehensibly deceitful. So he didn’t say the words to her. Ooh, very clever, but we already knew you waited until she was out of earshot. You still said the words, and you still said them about her, and that’s just as bad.
The crying about all the other things he won’t apologize for is some of the most ridiculous misdirection I’ve seen.
Just admit you said what you said, apologize sincerely, and take your lumps. There’s no guarantee you’ll got off scot-free, but then there never is.
And notice that it’s not just the passive voice, but also the passive voice without an agent. The “things were said” ploy. Not only passive but also “and who exactly DID these things you cowardly worm?”
“Look what you made me do.”
Yeah, and maybe sometimes you can get away without an agent, such as when your administration messed up and you’re being vague about who specifically was responsible. But when talking about something you personally did and nobody else was involved? It’s not going to fly.