Sorry is not so hard to say.

"It's sad, it's so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Always seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word"

Not for this president, Elton.

President Obama apologized to America for his health plan not working the way he wanted it to, and for his misguided promise to a small percentage of the people who will have to actually sign up for a better plan, but republicans and their wingnut friends will not accept it. (BTW, remember that "poor" lady with cancer who was going to die because of Obamacare? Well, not so much. In fact, a lot of people have been lying severely misinformed about Obamacare of late. Some of them are famous, and some of them are just ordinary folks.)  

Now the folks over at FOX are really confused. They demanded an apology, and now that they have one, they are scrambling in the newsroom to come up with a new meme.

I can't wait to hear it. Because wingnuts have a way of living in an alternate reality. For instance, did you know that Mitt Romney won the 2012 election by a landslide? Or that Ken Cuccinelli actually won the governor's race in Virginia?

If you live in our world you don't. But thankfully we have FOX NEWS to give us a glimpse of the other side every now and then.

Anyway, Obama isn't the only one who has been apologizing of late. Home Depot felt compelled to apologize after an ignorant and offensive tweet  that was retweeted from their account. 

And then there is Lara Logan and her crew over at CBS for botching a 60 Minutes report on Benghazi.

"In a humiliating retreat from a piece she had staunchly defended, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan admitted on Friday morning that she and the news magazine had made a "mistake" in their reporting of a controversial story about the Benghazi attacks. She apologized to viewers and said "60 Minutes" will issue a correction about the reliability of one of her key sources, security contractor Dylan Davies, on its next program.

"We were wrong to put him on air," she said, adding, "We will apologize to our viewers and we will correct the record on our broadcast on Sunday night."
It emerged on Thursday that Davies, who gave Logan a hair-raising, detailed account of his actions during the 2012 attack, had previously told the FBI that he hadn't even gone to the site where it took place.

This was the second occasion where Davies had been recorded as saying that he wasn't at the scene of the crime. He had already admitted to doing so once, but CBS and Logan had firmly backed him, saying that he had lied to his employer to protect himself.

Lying to the FBI, however, is a different matter, and "60 Minutes" pulled the report and said it was "reviewing" the new information to determine whether it had been misled.

That review led to Logan's apology on Friday morning.

"The most important thing to every person at '60 Minutes' is the truth, and today the truth is that we made a mistake," she said, calling it a very "disappointing" situation.

Logan said that the emergence of the FBI was "the moment for us when we realized that we no longer had confidence in our source." She said that the show had taken the vetting of Davies "very seriously," but that he had "misled" everyone.

"CBS This Morning" host Norah O'Donnell asked Logan, "Why would you stand by this report after Dylan Davies admitted lying to his own employer?" Logan said that Davies had always portrayed that lie as part of a patriotic, selfless desire to help his fellow security workers, even though he was not supposed to be at the compound." [Source]

I never liked Lara Logan; I always felt that she was more suited for FOX NEWS than a real news company.

Please bring back some real journalists to 60 Minutes.

Poor Dan Rather caught a lot of heat for his George Bush National Guard story.

Let's see if Logan gets the same treatment for this phony story.  

Barbie, Dan, Eric, and Rahm.

WTF is going on in A-merry-ca? Are you telling me that even if you are a black doll you can't get equal treatment with your white counterpart? Barbie, if you need a good civil- rights lawyer, call me, I can refer you to somebody. Wal-Mart knows they are wrong for that. Shame on you Wal-Mart!

But I am not going to stress about Black Barbie tonight. There is too much other stuff going on.

For instance, I see that folks have caught yet another old white guy in a racial faux pas. This time it's the venerable television journalist, Dan Rather:

" Rather spoke about how he feels Republicans will regard Democrats, especially Obama, in the fall election.Rather said the GOP would say, 'Listen, he's a nice person, he's very articulate. This is what's going to be used against him. But, he [President Obama] couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."'

OUCH! Dan I think it's the watermelon part that got you in trouble. You know the stereotypes about us Negroes and watermelon. But I am not mad at you, so don't bother to call Rev. Al. I see what you were saying. Actually, you didn't go far enough. The republican's narrative has been, and will continue to be, more racially charged and insensitive. So relax. They will feign outrage and demand that we are as hard on you as we would be on the Glen Becks of the world, but it ain't happening. Why? Because we know that when they are alone with each other, the shit they say is a lot worse.

And finally, I have to talk about this Eric Massa ( I swear you can't make this up. The guys name is Massa) character. So he says Rahm Emanuel- all 5 feet of him- stepped to him in the shower and started poking him in the chest. (Eric, are you sure that was his finger?) Seems he ticked off old Rahm because he wasn't acting like a loyal dumbocratic soldier. And, apparently, Rahm doesn't like the guy too much.

"He added that Emanuel confronted him in a shower once over his opposition to one of Obama's budget proposals. "I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me,...

...When I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983," Massa said. "And I gave it right back to him, in terms and words that I know are physically impossible."

"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn," Massa said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."

Yep, no love lost between Rahm and my man Eric. But why come out about Rahm now Mr. Massa? Could it have anythng to do with the ethics violation swirling over your head? Oh field, the man is battling cancer, that's why he is resigning. Battling cancer? Or his sexuality?

"Later in the day, Massa released a statement saying that after discovering he had a recurrence of cancer, he learned he was the subject of an ethics complaint by a male staffer who felt "uncomfortable" during an exchange with Massa. The exchange reportedly had sexual overtones. "

So why is he really leaving public office? Cancer? The Chicago style politics of the Obama crew? Or, because of more stories to come from this ethics violation hanging over his head?

My man has already been embraced by some on the right (He was on Glen Beck's show tonight.) because they sense an opening to go after his O ness and his boyz. I wish them luck with Eric. But I am sure he will turn on them as well. Here is hoping that he doesn't tell us that Glen Beck confronted him naked in the shower. That imagery would prevent me from holding down my food for days.