"We in the media owe the president a sincere apology"

[renate]

(This is a couple of days old; I'm sorry if I missed it if it was posted before.)

I'm sorry that in the course of that rally I forced you to misquote yourself and to devote one reference to Heather Heyer, the woman killed during the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, versus an inordinate number of references to the journalists who cover you and your administration.

I definitely should not have made you fail to mention the 10 American sailors who died or are missing from the Navy destroyer USS John S. McCain after it collided with an oil tanker Monday.

snip

And I definitely shouldn't have had you say this during the rally: "I hit 'em with neo-Nazi. I hit them with everything. I got the white supremacists, the neo-Nazis. I got them all in there, Let's see. KKK, we have KKK."

snip

On two occasions, I lied to you via telepathy and convinced you that the cameras broadcasting your rally had been shut down because the media were too frightened to share your criticism of CNN and other outlets. That was transparently false, particularly since I watched the rally in its entirety on CNN. I'm sorry I made you lie about that. Twice.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-trump-rally-media-huppke-20170823-story.html

[niyad]

1. it is worth reading again and again. and some may have missed the first one!

[murielm99]

2. Thank you for finding this.

[ck4829]

3. I'm sorry too

I'm sorry I question the infinite wisdom of the electoral college.

I'm sorry I defend all the family and friends who your supporters want to make the 'other'. I'm sorry I have a nephew, who is probably the closest I will have to my own child, who has a rare disease and I worry every day about what the "world's greatest healthcare system" will do to him and now add Trumpcare to the mix. I'm also sorry I've come into contact with some Muslim Americans, the group you've described as a "problem", and found at least one to be the definition of "adorable" and her and others to be infinitely more inclusive, tolerant, hard working, and American than your supporters who say "Not my problem" to issues they are removed from.

I'm sorry I notice something very wrong when I keep hearing we are one nation, yet it's your supporters who call on excluding Americans they don't like, just like how I am sorry when I notice something very wrong when I keep hearing we salute one flag, but I see your supporters with the Confederate and now Nazi flags.

Do you think he can ever forgive me?

[saidsimplesimon]

4. K&R to you and Chicago Tribune

[Hekate]

5. KnR

[ailsagirl]

6. Excellent!