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latest apologies

Evo Morales apologizes for kneeing a player on the groin in a friendly soccer match.

 

[GMA]

Rick Sanchez apologizes for calling Jon Stewart a bigot and for saying that Jews control the media.

 

[Then Daily Show with Jon Stewart]

Joaquin Phoenix apologizes to David Letterman.

Joaquin pulls a stunt on David Letterman's Late Show. A year later he returns to apologize.

[full version on Letterman]

At the a Congressional hearing, Austin "Jack" DeCosta, a repeat violator, apologizes for salmonella contamination traced to his egg farm in Iowa.

Presumed apologizee apologizes to presumed apologizer. Apologizer apologizes for apology.

BP executive Tony Hayward goes to Congress to testify on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and is expected to apologize for it but ends up getting an apology from Rep. Joe Barton (R. Texas). When Republican colleagues demur, Barton apologizes for his apology.

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entertainment and sports

Janet Jackson apologizes for wardrobe malfunction.

Janet flashes her right breast but not her right nipple at the 2004 Super Bowl. She reluctantly apologizes but regrets it.

[David Letterman appearance in 3 parts: 1 2 3]

Ashlee Simpson apologizes for lip-syncing.

 

Dog apologizes for his liberal use of racial slurs.

Dog the Bounty Hunter Duane Chapman uses racial slurs including the the N word in a telephone conversation with his son Tucker in rant about Tucker's girlfriend. He apologizes to everyone, cries a lot and gets to keep his job.

Kramer apologizes for his angry ourburst.

Seinfeld's Kramer Michael Richards goes ballistic against his hecklers. With Jerry Seinfeld's help he gets to apologize on David Letterman's Late Show. When the audience giggles, Jerry said, "Stop laughing. It's not funny." Kramer goes to anger management and becomes a changed man.

Christian Bale apologizes for going nuts.

 

[Batman and Robin]

Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift.

 

[the story]

Joaquin Phoenix apologizes to David Letterman.

Joaquin pulls a stunt on David Letterman's Late Show. A year later he returns to apologize.

[full version on Letterman]

David Letterman apologizes to Sarah Palin. . . and then to staff, family and Sarah Palin.

 

[David Letterman's explanation]

Jamie Foxx apologizes to Miley Cyrus.

Radiohead disses Miley. Miley disses Radiohead. Radiohead disses back. Jamie disses Miley. Jamie backpedals.

Miley Cyrus apologizes, and apologizes, and apologizes. . .

. . . for racy photos, for racist photo, for racist photo take 2, to Demi and Selena (whoever they are) . . .

 

Jude Law apologizes to Sienna Miller.

 

Sienna Miller apologizes to Pittsburgh.

 

Who the hell is Sienna Miller?

Alec Baldwin apologizes to the Philippines. . .

. . . for his a mail-order bride joke on David Letterman's Late Show. He also apologizes for his recorded outburst to his daughter [explanation]. He seems to have survived these episodes unscathed, except that he is banned from the Philippines.

Sharon Stone apologizes to China.
When asked during the Cannes Film Festival how she feels about the earthquake in Sichuan, China, Sharon Stone rambles,"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans and then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that bad things happen to you?" When Dior withdraws her from China and a Chinese cinema chain bans her films she, or is it Dior, releases a written apology. I wonder if she knows that, being a neighboring province of Tibet, Sichuan has a lot of ethnic Tibetans. Sharon Stone should stick with what she does best, like crossing and uncrossing her legs. [more 1 2 3]

Rosie O'Donnell apologizes to Asia.

On the View, Rosie O'Donell's condescending performance mocking the Chinese language ignites outrage from Asians. Her lame apology does not convince many people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Mel Gibson has a lot to apologize for.

"I've apologized more than anyone I knew. . . all my life."

[CBS MSNBC]

["You have a dog in this fight?". TYT]
["Asshole!". Start at about the 3-minute mark]

[Apologies to Aksana for his slur fiiled rants 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]

[An attempt to aplogize to Ari]

Enough! Stop apologizing already!

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politics and government

Evo Morales apologizes for kneeing a player on the groin in a friendly soccer game.

 

[GMA]

   

Presumed apologizee apologizes to presumed apologizer. Apologizer apologizes for apology.

BP executive Tony Hayward goes to Congress to testify on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and is expected to apologize for it but ends up getting an apology from Rep. Joe Barton (R. Texas). When Republican colleagues demur, Barton apologizes for his apology.

In 2006, George Allen's macaca moment cost him his Senate seat. Despite his subsequent apologies and explanation, and upon revelations of his history of transgressions, all hope for a 2008 presidential bid is dashed.

   
 

Politicians' mass apology for their sex scandals. Coming soon!

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media
   

Rick Sanchez apologizes for calling Jon Stewart a bigot and for saying that Jews control the media.

 

[Then Daily Show with Jon Stewart]

 

 

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religion
Pope Benedict XVI apologizes but denies wrongdoing.
John Hagee apologizes to Catholics.

Jimmy Swaggart cries.
1988, Jimmy visits a prostitute and then finds himself in a tearful apology begging for everyone's and God's forgiveness, "I bow at His feet, who has saved me and washed me and cleansed me. I have sinned against You, my Lord. And I would ask that Your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain, until it is in the seas of God's forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore." He adds, "I say unto you that watch me today, through His mercy, His grace and His love, the sin of which I speak is not a present sin; it is a past sin." 1991, Jimmy gets caught with another prostitute.

Ted Haggard apologizes.

Gay-bashing evangelist Ted Haggard gets caught seeing a male prostitute and smoking crystal meth. He apologizes to everyone everywhere for a few years, then he announces that he over-repented.

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law, crime and justice
   
Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994) apologizes for eating people.
   

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business
At the a Congressional hearing, Austin "Jack" DeCosta, a repeat violator, apologizes for salmonella contamination traced to his egg farm in Iowa.

 

 
   

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science, medicine and academia
   
 
   

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others
   

 

 
   

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