“I am not grateful for the moment,” Bush told the Hollywood Reporter. “But I’m grateful for what I’ve gotten out of it. I’m grateful that it hit me all the way to my core.”
As usual, GOP asshole sees error of ways – but only because he as smacked in the forehead with a 2x4.
I believe they paid off the full remainder of his contract (10 million) and let him go. I’m pretty sure he hasn’t been on NBC since.
The way the protestors repeatedly smashed their jaws against the guards boots was unconscionable,
I vote for Halicephalobus mephisto, the Devil Worm.
Below is a quote from his Cousin G.W. Bush. I am sure people can change, but it seems like this kind of behavior may be genetic or at least very common in his family.
Question: “When you’re not talking about politics, what do you and your father talk about?”
Bush: “Pussy.”
To David Fink of the Hartford Courant, at the 1988 Republican Convention, Salon, 9th April 2000
And yet, did you notice that he said not word one about Trump? As if he’s afraid to offend the Orange 45.
I completely agree. It sounds to me like he’s being very honest about who he was at the time, that he was a people pleasing kiss ass who was more concerned about being liked than doing the right thing. I can imagine being in that situation with somebody like PP and thinking it was best to just laugh along and hope it ends quickly than to speak up and risk getting into some kind of trouble at a new job.
And let’s not kid ourselves, we’ve all been there to some extent. We’ve all laughed at an offensive joke or comment in order to please a boss or someone we wanted to impress. We’ve all turned a blind eye at one time in our lives to something we should’ve spoke up about. And those of us who are decent people have felt terrible about it afterwards. Maybe not that day, but at some point you’ve looked back on something and regretted that you didn’t say something or regretted your cowardly response. I don’t think that makes him a bad person, just a decidedly human one. I’d be willing to bet that there are dozens and dozens of otherwise decent folks who’ve taken the same route with PP thinking it’s better to laugh along with him than risk the wrath of a petty, vindictive, evil little man.
Well, you have to get their attention first.
I agree. I’m willing to forgive him and move on. Everyone deserves a second chance.
You are way generous! This polished apologetic turd gets nothing from me. You OWN this Billy Burp and you will forever be associated with this incident.
Didn’t read the article. Came straight to comments to say that I have no interest in what he might have to say.
In the rest of the interview, he talked about how his teenage daughter took it hard and that has also made him take responsibility in himself. I accept it.
Every ® is. The day a ® takes on 45 directly is probably never. There’s vengeance to be sidestepped and money to be made, and, ultimately, the promise of Wingnut Welfare.
Piece of dog feces says what?
Why can’t we be spared his mumbling. He IS the problem and doesn’t even know. All concerned about himself and up in himself. Go work in a battered woman’s shelter for seven years and maybe I’ll have time for you.
Yes, Billy Bullsit gave us a ring side seat for the ugliness of tRump. Fat lot of good that did…
Dung beetles are useful creatures doing useful work that seems to make them immensely happy, to the extent that that phrase has meaning to creatures without any brain structures identified with emotion. With the possible exception of the last one, none of those things apply to anyone associated with Trump.
Reading his mea culpa is just like stepping in dog shit. You can’t believe you just did that and now have to spend 1/2 an hour scraping it off your shoe.
So he’s known about what was said for years and never done any self reflection about it until now after it was made public. Talk about sincerity…dick!
He did nothing wrong he just interviewed a narcissistic fool and now it seems he is apologizing in hopes of getting a job with him
Their contorted condemnation is from the Trump Play Book.
I thought his statement was remarkably humble and honest. It seems a lot of comments here at TPM come from people who have never made a mistake or begged forgiveness. Lucky people.