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Credit: Geraldo in a Hoodie

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Geraldo Rivera is apologizing for his “hoodie” remarks about Trayvon Martin that touched off a media firestorm last week, saying, “I have obscured the main point that someone shot and killed an unarmed teenager.”

“I apologize to anyone offended by what one prominent black conservative called my ‘very practical and potentially life-saving campaign urging black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go around wearing hoodies,’” Rivera said in an email to POLITICO Tuesday, citing a piece in the National Review penned by Thomas Sowell.

Rivera said that “by putting responsibility on what kids wear instead of how people react to them I have obscured the main point that someone shot and killed an unarmed teenager,” and that he was offering a “sincere and heartfelt apology” to anyone he may have offended in his “crusade to warn minority families of the danger to their young sons inherent in gangsta style clothing; like hoodies.”

Memo to insincere apologists: Starting your apology with a caveat ("anyone offended") is not an apology. Moreover, defending your remark with a quote by a confirmed crazy person like Thomas Sowell — in the National Freaking Review — also not wise.

But really, this has to be the worst public apology I've ever seen.

"I'm sorry if you just don't understand how valuable my insights are."

"I'm sorry if you don't appreciate that my invaluable wisdom could save your kids' lives."

Or, as Coates wrote:

I apologize for pointing out the fact that your fashion choices are responsible for a wannabee cop killing your son.

Heh.

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I've heard a lot of disgusting stuff coming out of the mouths of the Zombie Plumbers, but Sarah Palin has become the Zombie Queen with this one. She sure likes her FaceBook page.

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

She's always complaining that the media attacks her family, but now it's OK for her to use her baby as a sickening talking point. What a cheap and disgusting way to use her family. She has wonderful health care and for her to utter these words is more Beckerwocky talk. We all know that whatever happens with the health care debate you can be certain that the rich will have their concierge doctors to treat them no matter what. And I'm fine with that, the rich will never have to worry so please give the rest of us some health care.

How would Malkin act if a young mother brought the remains of her dead child to Alaska and confronted Palin because she didn't have enough health insurance to cover the medical bills for her sick child? Malkin would expose her private info and the conservative movement would punish her relentlessly.

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Glenn Beck likes to get people to say the word "fascist" when they're talking about the Obama administration. Yesterday it was Thomas Sowell's turn.

Beck: So let me start with that question: Are we still a capitalist country?

Sowell: Oh, heavens, partially. We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership of the means of production. But the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership, and the politicians should tell the people how to run their businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.

Beck: So, what route is that? What route is that again?

Sowell: That the private people still own the businesses, but the politicians tell them what to do.

Beck: Right, but isn't that, uh ... Trying to remember, that's uh ...

Sowell: That's fascism.

Beck: Yeah, I was gonna say, I knew it was a bad one!

Ding! He just loves that word. Too bad he has no fricking idea what it really means.

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The Bush Cultists have so little to run on that they have to LIE about Pelosi to try and rally their base and make her the "Big Bad." Kevin Drum finds Thomas Sowell at his worst.

As regards the war on terrorism and the terrorists’ war against the west, Nancy Pelosi has opposed having international phone calls to and from terrorists monitored by American intelligence agencies.

Drum explains: This is, flatly, a lie. Pelosi, like many Democrats, opposes NSA surveillance of American residents without a warrant. That is all she opposes. Period.