Friday, February 12, 2016

GIVE IT A REST.

There's too much unnecessary apologizing in the world today. Or maybe it's just in super-sensitive, politically correct America. The latest forced apology is from Madeleine Albright who, while campaigning for Hillary Clinton said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." A perfectly acceptable statement and sentiment. Who is actually offended by this amusing comment? Do the offended parties feel they have been condemned to the fires of hell by Ms. Albright? Or was anybody offended at all, or is this another media trick to fill space and create a nonexistent problem?  Whatever happened to free speech?
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4 comments:

  1. The Cat's MeowFebruary 12, 2016 at 7:25 PM

    Maddie's been delivering this line for years. Unfortunately, it's kind of bad timing to say it just now, what with Hillary in the middle of a campaign in which young people (including young women) have been apparently flocking to Bernie Sanders. They were probably hearing it for the first time, as were (most likely) a lot of the lazy press who couldn't be bothered to look something up if their lives depended on it. Albright made a political misstep. But her free speech hasn't been infringed.

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  2. The Cranky CopywriterFebruary 13, 2016 at 6:23 AM

    Speech isn't free if you have to apologize for it.

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  3. The Cat's MeowFebruary 13, 2016 at 7:52 AM

    Sure it is. Albright says herself, in her elegant mea culpa in today's New York Times, that "this was the wrong context and the wrong time to use that line." And then she goes on to defend, with an enlightening explanation, what she said. Sounds like free speech to us.

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  4. The Cat's MeowFebruary 13, 2016 at 7:55 AM

    P.S: When the Constitution discusses the right to free speech, it is discussing government suppression of speech, not the marketplace.

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