{"id":850,"date":"2007-02-26T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=850"},"modified":"2011-10-01T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T23:31:55","slug":"the-old-new-thing-the-politicians-fallacy-and-the-politicians-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/02\/26\/the-old-new-thing-the-politicians-fallacy-and-the-politicians-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old New Thing : The politician’s fallacy and the politician’s apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Old New Thing : The politician’s fallacy and the politician’s apology<\/a><\/p>\n

In the politician’s apology, you apologize not for the offense itself, but for the fact that what you did offended someone. “I’m sorry you’re a hypersensitive crybaby.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’d be funny if it weren’t absolutely true, and, unfortunately, par for the course in politics these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the politician’s apology, you apologize not for the offense itself, but for the fact that what you did offended someone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[385],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-dI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3473,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/09\/02\/protecting-them-not-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":0},"title":"Protecting Them, Not You","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The last 10 years have seen many laws enacted in the name of security, but they are meant to protect the lawmakers, not you.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/06\/23\/why-i-love-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":1},"title":"Why I Love Australia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: \"I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.\" For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. 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