{"id":3583,"date":"2010-02-03T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:51:26","slug":"white-house-mea-culpas-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3583\/white-house-mea-culpas-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Mea Culpas, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew White House Chief of Staff <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/02\/rahm-apologizes-for-privately-calling-liberal-activists-retarded.html \" target=\"_blank\">Rahm Emanuel has a foul mouth<\/a> <em>and<\/em> a penchant for insulting people?\u00a0 Apparently, after hearing that liberal activists were planning to shame moderate Democrats critical of ObamaCare with television ads, \u201cRahm-bo\u201d told them they were \u201cf&#8212;ing retarded.\u201d\u00a0 This all came to light because thereafter he called to apologize.\u00a0 To the activists?\u00a0 No; the head of the Special Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning makes a lot of sense if you subscribe to this tenet of political correctness: If an insult is uttered yet the group most likely to be offended isn\u2019t around to hear it, an apology is warranted because eventually they will.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Emanuel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/03\/20\/obama.special.olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Special Olympics is on a campaign<\/a> to end the practice of using the word \u201cretarded\u201d as an insult.\u00a0 Thus, the need to apologize to an organization that he was not even thinking about when he said the word.\u00a0 Curiously, it\u2019s unclear if the Special Olympics is equally as interested in promoting more civil discourse by ending all insults, whether or not the offending words specifically relate to the group\u2019s core constituency.<\/p>\n<p>All of this A insults B, so A apologizes to C silliness makes one wonder what public figures would do if they had no readily identifiable group to turn to and say I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 Perhaps then they\u2019d be forced to mend fences with the people they <em>actually<\/em> offended, instead of getting a get-out-of-jail free card from a group claiming to represent the emotions of all those conceivably covered by its mission statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has a foul mouth and a penchant for insulting people?\u00a0 Apparently, after hearing that liberal activists were planning to shame moderate Democrats critical of ObamaCare with television ads, \u201cRahm-bo\u201d told them they were \u201cf&#8212;ing retarded.\u201d\u00a0 This all came to light because thereafter he called to apologize.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,799],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-special-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}