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Boy Scouts Apologize Over President Trumps Remarks at JamboreeBy LIAM STACKJULY 27, 2017
Facing an angry backlash from parents and former members, the chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America apologized on Thursday for political remarks made by President Trump at the organizations national jamboree this week, during which the commander-in-chief crowed over his election victory, attacked the news media and criticized Hillary Clinton and former President Obama.
Michael Surbaugh, the organizations chief, said in a statement on Thursday that it was never our intent for the national jamboree to become a venue for partisan political attacks.
I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree, he wrote. He added, We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.
Link to tweet
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/boy-scouts-trump-apology.html
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Sure sounds like a meeting of the Hitler..er...Trump youth to me!
I gotta wonder how sincere this apology is ya know?
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 27, 2017, 05:44 PM - Edit history (1)
alternative than to say something more. I doubt it's sincere. They have a history anymore of RW crap.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Just another formerly good American thing dragged into the right wing republican cesspool.
Heil Trumpf!
malaise
(268,846 posts)atreides1
(16,068 posts)He knew Trump was going to make apolitical speech and he did nothing to keep it from happening! He did nothing because as the CEO of AT&T, he needs to be on Trump's good side in order to get the nod from the DOJ, for the purchase of Time Warner!
All he did with this "apology" was pay lip service and it wouldn't surprise if he got permission to release this "apology", from Scaramucci!!!
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)The other apology was more of an excuse.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Just a milque toast CYA statement... from a guy who needs trump...
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)that would be an apology? If he's tied up with or dependent on trump, then do you expect something else? I'm surprised a second statement was made at all, but I thought it was much better than the first.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)He could apologise to people in general for the behaviour of the scouts. Chanting "USA! USA!" at the thought of people losing healthcare? They were a bunch of barbarians. He could apologise for having failed to teach them the way to behave. He could resign if he is so dependent on Trump that he can't criticise him.
Boomerproud
(7,949 posts)That was a classic political 21st century non-apology.
mercuryblues
(14,526 posts)if you were offended apology.
G_j
(40,366 posts)They need to condemn the disgusting speech point by point. They own that speech.
And now that the dime a dozen appology has been made, and after they condemn the speech point by point, what are they really going to do about it? Who's going to resign? Who's going to make sure it doesn't happen again? Who's going to set up a program to councel the scouts on why this was inappropriate?
Where a lot of damage has been done to the organization and the lives of these kids, much has to be required to restore honor.
I won't hold my breath.
UTUSN
(70,671 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)tRump will never apologize, you can count on that!
sarisataka
(18,539 posts)but would have been much more meaningful two days ago.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)To start mocking the scouts.
duncang
(1,907 posts)After that happens the national leaders who were there and should have stopped him need to resign. And it wasn't just political rhetoric. It was also a hate speech. It degraded those scouts who aren't christian with the merry christmas junk. That was far beyond rhetoric or inappropriate. He did not and still doesn't care what he did to the BSA. They need to see that.
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)BSA anymore, and way back scouting was a major part of my life for years as an Eagle Scout.
duncang
(1,907 posts)I hated to see the "paramilitary" troops at summer camp. If you were camped near them you would hear a lot of hollering at the scouts. A tip off was the scout master driving up in his hummer and getting out looking more like a soldier then a scout.
I never had much respect for National. I always loved the local. I followed my son from cub scout to Eagle Scout as a leader. We were in a inner city scout troop. Some of the best times of my life.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)He's beyond redemption.
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)It's the classic non-apology. Why not just say it was objectively wrong?
G_j
(40,366 posts)it's nonsense. #FakeApology not accepted
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)It basically means "I'm sorry you're so thin-skinned that what I said bothered you!"
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Actions are all I want to see.
NYETNYET
(212 posts)The scout leader standing behind him hadn't smiled the whole way through...
duncang
(1,907 posts)Dipshit brought his own props along with him.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Were they leading the chorus of boos against Hillary and President Obama, a former scout I believe, as well?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)(Sarc)
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)That wasn't an apology. That was a mealy-mouthed attempt at an apology. Would that "apology" be accepted from your Scouts?
Apologizing if you were offended?
Great lesson for your Scouts. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)who did it.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Never again
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)What he meant was:
we sincerely regret being called on our own deliberately made offensive decision to allow Trump to politicize the BSA.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I bet they invite the pussy grabber-in-chief next year too.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Is not an apology
spanone
(135,803 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And he will do it again next year, if he isn't in prison or in asylum in Mother Russia anyway.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)would you believe him?
spanone
(135,803 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)hatrack
(59,583 posts)And a Tonka Truck is a GEM.
DFW
(54,327 posts)Anyone who tries it can be assumed to have deformed children.
This should have come five minutes after Trump's speech, not after a week of waiting to find out that it bombed.
The scouts present were cheering Trump like a Hitler Youth rally:
This is just what Trump wanted. It will NOT be what parents of present and future scouts want. Some parents will either pull their kids out, or not let them join. That will leave the hard core Hitlerjugend clones to populate the scouts.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)I will buy double the girl scout cookies I will buy and sent a letter to the boy scouts.
Must be a lot of blow back.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)the hardcore fascists have already taken over.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)1. He can make a half assed 'apology" that will largely smooth the ruffled feathers of a few thousand pissed off parents
or
2. He can bring down an F5 Trumpanzee shitstorm on himself AND the BSA by totally and openly repudiating Trump's speech.