Virginia Foxx sends 'apology' to Judy Shepard

[ccharles000]

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/10848/virginia-foxx-sends-apology-to-judy-shepard

She didn't have the guts to apologize face-to-face, but the deluge of emails and phone calls to Rep. Virginia Foxx have now resulted in an apology to Judy Shepard -- but she is not releasing the note sent to Matthew Shepard's mother.
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx has written a letter of apology to the mother of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming man whose name is on a bill adding sexual orientation to federal hate-crimes legislation.
During recent debate on the bill, Foxx, R-5th, called attempts to label Shepard's 1998 murder a hate crime "a hoax." She said that he was killed during a robbery and not because he was gay.

Foxx's remarks caused an uproar, and she later issued a statement saying that her use of "hoax" was "a poor choice of words."

Neither Foxx nor anyone in her office would return repeated calls and e-mails from the Winston-Salem Journal for comment about her apology.

So she can slur the hate crime against the young man in public, but cannot offer a public apology? Class. Her filthy behavior on the floor of the House stained our great state -- she owes everyone an apology, particularly those who have been the victim of a hate crime and the families of those who lost a loved family member to one.
But was it an apology at all? Foxx did reveal this bit of business to a local station:

She told WXII that she sent a handwritten note to Judy Shepard, Shepard's mother, saying that "if I said anything that offended her, I certainly apologize for it and know that she's hurting, and I would never do anything to add to that."

[Bankhead_ATL]

1. Man ***** that ***** with a capital F

[Behind the Aegis]

2. What crap!

:puke:

[kestrel91316]

3. Until she publically acknowledges her thoughtlessness and the FACT

of his murder being a hate crime, I'll just call her the worst insult my Uncle Shirley ever threw at people: SHE'S A DIRTY DOG.

[TahitiNut]

4. Foxx is a soulless piece of human excrement.

I'm particularly disgusted by her deliberately ambiguous statement that "he was killed during a robbery" or (as she said on the House floor) "during the commitment(sic) of a robbery."

This carefully-constricted passive voice allows the terminally ignorant and hateful to infer that Matthew Shepard was committing robbery ... and killed as a result. It's an invited inference. It's despicable.

:puke:

[mitchtv]

7. That hateful bile first spewed by

Elizabeth Vargas in an effort to revise history in a 20/20 episode. vile turd that she is

[CreekDog]

5. the old "if i said anything to offend..."

the old non-apology apology. :wtf:

why can't people just say, "i'm sorry, what i did/said was wrong, i shouldn't have done it and i will be more thoughtful/careful next time. i wish i hadn't done/said it and i hope you will forgive me."

and just be done with it. what's the point of putting that "if" and following it with mealy-mouth language that puts the blame for being offended on the one you are apologizing to?

:rant:

[moggie]

6. If it starts with "if", it's not an apology

Looks like the "poor choice of words" continues.

Hey, how about a big donation to a charity of Ms Shephard's choice, to show how genuinely sorry she is?

[bigwillq]

8. If.....

Gotta love that apology. :eyes:

[truebrit71]

9. "IF"? Are you serious? "IF?"....

...that idiot STILL doesn't fucking get it, does she? :eyes: :grr:

[foxfeet]

10. If only Divine were still here, she'd mail Foxx a bowel movement.

[Arkana]

11. "If I said anything that offended her"?

This reads like every other non-apology apology Republicans have issued over the years.

"Sorry you were offended! I'm still a hateful old scow who thinks your son is an abomination against God!"

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Oh one of THOSE apologies:

I'm sorry if you took offense... (as if it's Judy Shepard's fault, not hers).

As you said, definitely not a class act, that one.