No Apologies can ever be made that are meaningful enough to overcome the amount of crap I have had to listen to from the famous, infamous, and those just hoping for their fifteen minutes of fame of late. First it was a group of politicians who wanted the voters to know just how sorry they were for whatever it was that had got them in trouble this time. It didn’t matter if it was have less than honest people working for you, not paying their taxes on time, or working for special interest groups since leaving office, they all apologized. Then it was Michael Phelps putting up a picture of him bonging around. Now it is Chris Brown and Rhianna having a row that had it happened among normal people wouldn’t have warranted even quiet water cooler conversation. However since they are all celebrities in some fashion they had to apologize to everyone and promise to get help from their lawyers, gurus, and Jesus.
It is time for them to stop it. Since they obviously haven’t got the message let me relay it again, no one cares. Not even using some special all natural soap from Best Bath Store can they scrub the stink of personal failure off of them. It isn’t the failure that we mind, it is the thinking we care about it and the hypocrisy that goes along with it. If the politicians had been honest about what they had done, only people in the other party would have cared. Had Michael Phelps said, “I believe the laws against marijuana are wrong and should be changed,” we would have applauded. Had he said the pictures were taken somewhere that pot was legal he would have cheered. Instead he apologized and begged our forgiveness now that he has seen the light of how wrong he was. That shows lower moral fiber than actually breaking the law, since no one except his mother really believes he is sorry about smoking pot. As for Chris Brown and Rhianna, let me tell the both of you we don’t care. You had a heated argument, and probably not your first which shows neither of you are mature enough to be in a relationship. To make a big deal about it by playing up how victimized you were is an affront to all affect by domestic violence.
In the end these public apologies mean absolutely nothing and I believe it is necessary for any celebrity making one to follow it up by making a second one appologizing for wasting our time on meaningless words.
