Citations:notpology

English citations of notpology and not-pology

fake apology, non-apology

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• 2007 August 31, Gil Kaufman, “Michael Vick, Senator Craig Prove That Sometimes 'Sorry' Really Is The Hardest Word”, in MTV News‎^[1]:

  A short time later, Bush, who is certainly not known for contrition, went further in the notpology direction and lashed out at detractors of Gonzales, whose "good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," he said.

• 2007 September 16, Reciprocating Bill (comment), “After the Bar Closes...: Official Uncommonly Dense Discussion Thread”, in Antievolution.org‎^[2]:

  I sought to capture the tone of WAD's previous notpologies - the tone of a petulant prick - in my little satire.

• 2007 November 27, Wesley R. Elsberry, “Degaussed Moral Compass Alert: Dembski Using “Internet Video””, in The Austringer‎^[3]:

  Dembski’s post about his use of the Harvard/XVIVO material falls into the category of “notpology” that he has used on past occasions.

• 2007 December 24, “Discovery Institute, Dembski, Copyright, and 'Design of Life'”, in ERV‎^[4]:

  So… You know all that stuff Dembski said in his notpology a while back? You know, where Dembski said he was really, really sorry for using a manipulated version of XVIVO/Harvards animation titled 'The Inner Life of a Cell’, but he didn’t do anything wrong?

• 2008 May 30, Anna Lemma, “Notpology From Kieffe & Sons Ford”, in The Underground Unbeliever‎^[5]:
• 2009 November 17, P. Z. Myers, “Bill Maher makes a not-pology”, in Pharyngula‎^[6]:
• 2009 December 17, screechymonkey (comment), “Randi, skepticism, and global warming”, in Bad Astronomy‎^[7], Discover Magazine:

  And Randi’s “notpology” is a little too focused on blaming his critics for my taste.

• 2010 June 10, Bruce Gorton, “The pope takes action on Ireland!”, in Expensive Beliefs‎^[8], TimesLive:

  The pope after many a not-pology (It sounds like he is saying sorry but when you read his actual words he is just expressing how painful it is that he got caught) decided to send a group to investigate the abuse.

• 2010 July 5, John S. Wilkins, “Cardinal Fang gives notpology, and evades real problem”, in The Drought Resistant Philosopher‎^[9]:
• 2011 June 18, Ed Brayton, “Fox Anchor Offers Not-pology for Racist Obama Remarks”, in Dispatches from the Creation Wars‎^[10]:

  Eric Bolling, the Fox News business anchor who repeatedly sought to portray President Obama as a stereotypical black thug in a story about the White House hosting an African leader, issued a classic not-pology for it:

• 2011 October 9, Mama Mara, “Say goodbye to the not-pology”, in Mama Mara‎^[11]:

  The classic not-pology is the politician or celebrity who compares some group to Nazis or uses racially charged language and then, when called on it, makes a public statement saying “I’m sorry you were offended by my choice of language.”

• 2011 October 31, Jim Bauch, “Re: The PCs are at it again”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.mtl-canadiens‎^[12] (Usenet), message-ID <9f480237-ce2f-4aed-8b5e-630d20ee7a2b@u24g2000pru.googlegroups.com>:

  I doubt you'll see a league investigation or disciplinary action or even an apology (except maybe of the "I'm sorry some people were offended" notpology type).

• 2011 November 22, MyPetSlug (comment), “A Better Apology From Gelato Mio Owner”, in Dispatches from the Culture Wars‎^[13]:

  The standard notpology is to admit no error, usually claiming it was a joke or you were merely just expressing your opinion. Then, to apologize *if* you offended anyone, not allowing that your words/actions actually did offend anyone or even admitting how someone could have been offended by it.

• 2011 December 4, Ophelia Benson, “We never”, in Butterflies & Wheels‎^[14]:

  One or two points about that first Observer article, because that blame-the-bloggers not-pology is so annoying.

• 2011 December 7, minorkey1 (comment), “Alec Baldwin Apologizes to Fellow Passengers for Plane Incident”, in ABC News‎^[15]:

  And the “I’m sorry, but my behavior was all THEIR fault for being 50′s gym teachers” is a pathetic notpology. Get back to us, Alec, when you can muster enough empathy for the people YOU inconvenienced to offer a sincere one.

• 2012 February 3, Laurel Sutton, “How Susan G. Komen For The Cure Torpedoed Its Brand”, in Fast Company‎^[16]:

  They said "sorry," but it was a not-pology.

• 2012 February 23, “The Notpology”, in Skepticlawyer‎^[17]:

  People who want a genuine apology for their hurt feelings sometimes use the neologism ‘notpology’ to describe the ‘I’m-sorry-for-your-offence’ verbal tic, and while I don’t agree with them, I can see why it irritates.

• 2012 February 28, “Rep. Issa: “Not My Greatest Sucess.””, in Foster Disbelief‎^[18]:

  That isn’t even a not-pology. It’s just a Damn, should have had that panel behind closed doors so the uppity women wouldn’t have seen it.

• 2012 March 3, Ed Brayton, “Rush Issues a Notpology”, in Dispatches from the Creation Wars‎^[19]:

  Now that he’s losing advertisers left and right, Rush Limbaugh seems to have been cowed into doing something I’ve never heard of him doing before, pretend to apologize. It’s a classic notpology — “I was right on the issues but I worded it badly.”

• 2012 March 4, Enigma, “Ignatius Reilly Issues Notpology”, in Post-Modern Enlightenment‎^[20]:
• 2012 March 4, Stephen Andrew, “Limbaugh bleeding sponsors”, in Zingularity‎^[21]:

  Now we know why RushBo apologized, he’s hemorrhaging advertisers and some of them are not buying his notpology from Friday.

• 2012 March 5, “US shock jock Rush Limbaugh brands Georgetown student a ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute’; Republicans and sponsors flee”, in The Periscope Post‎^[22]:

  It was only after several advertisers announced that they would be withdrawing their ads from his show that Limbaugh issued what has been branded a ‘notpology’ on Saturday.

• 2012 March 6, “Limbaugh Losing Advertisers”, in orlandobulletin.com‎^[23]:

  Rush Limbaugh’s notpology for this vile attack on Sandra Fluke was clearly designed to prevent more advertisers from jumping ship. Prior to the notpology, at least half a dozen companies had pulled their ads from the show. Sleep Train, Sleep Number, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Quicken Loans and Carbonite had all withdrawn their ads. And at least one of them is not buying the fake apology.

• 2012 March 12, “(untitled)”, in The Shittiest Editorial Cartoon of the Moment‎^[24]:

  Yesterday Gary McCoy issued a not-pology for his Sandra Fluke cartoon. As I pointed out, he went through the standard lines like “I’m supposed to be controversial” and “it’s liberals who are the intolerant ones,” and I finished by “predicting” (really just saying) that McCoy would crap out another offensive cartoon.

• 2012 March 12, “You can do worse than a notpology”, in The Hypothetical Bus Stop‎^[25]:

  Then, you get people like Rush Limbaugh, who enjoy being bullies and hide behind the comedy label, but also understand that bullying is generally frowned upon and will issue a notpology and claim they have lots of respect for whatever group they offended if too much shit gets stirred up.