Apologentsia*

     Lots of "I'm sorry" in the air these days, including one today from Alabama State Senator Scott Beason of Gardendale regarding his use of the term Aborigines during the Bingo Bribery trial. He was referring to the black patrons of the Greentrack bingo operation.

"My purpose today is to say that I am very sorry and I apologize to anyone whose feelings were hurt by my comment..." 

     And it's not just Beason. Why is it that folks apologizing can't let it go with a simple I am sorry..without the "to anyone whose feelings were hurt" part.
     Do they think there is even a scintilla of possibility that nobody was hurt after the eruption of anger after their comments?
     Beason's slur only came to light...ironically...because he was caught by the secret tape recorder he was wearing to help the Feds arrest Democrats. That prompted comments about what he might have said if he did not know he was being recorded.

[* I claim this as a new word, to describe the class of people who go public to apologize, at least half-heartedly, for their public statements.]