Virginia Foxx sends 'apology' to Judy Shepard

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."

:puke:

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.

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:

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

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:

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?

Gotta love that apology. :eyes:

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

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!"

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.