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Why does saying, “I’m sorry,” get you out of being indicted? « Fred Klonsky's blog

Why does saying, “I’m sorry,” get you out of being indicted? « Fred Klonsky's blog

Why does saying, “I’m sorry,” get you out of being indicted?

It seems that Rupert Murdoch took a page out of the Jonah Edelman playbook. He took out advertisements in various papers the other day and said, “I’m sorry.”

Will that save him. It mght.

It seems to have worked for Stand for Children’s Jonah Edelman, who sent an apology to the readers of this blog last week.

In spite of the fact that IEA union leaders claim Edelman’s video was all a lie, I’m not so sure.

Take this excerpt.

So our analysis was he’s still going to be in power, and as such the raw politics were that we should tilt toward him, and so we interviewed 36 candidates in targeted races. … I’m being quite blunt here. The individual candidates were essentially a vehicle to execute a political objective, which was to tilt toward Madigan. The press never picked up on it. We endorsed