Leroy Jethro Gibbs is my favoritest television show character of all time. He's an asshole with a heart of gold, much beloved of his team in spite of whacking 'em upside the head and scolding "NEVER apologize! It's a sign of weakness."
Today's news shows this leftyloon priest apologizing. Fr. Michael Pfleger is renowned as a Chicago activist who once exhorted an anti-gun crowd to "drag" a gun shop owner from his shop "like a rat" and "snuff" him. 
That's ballsy. I totally disagree with him in all ways, but, damn. That. Is. Ballsy.
How can that guy suddenly turn into a wimp?
Political satire, lampooning, mockery is a centuries' old honored tradition. Expressing political views -- even loud, radical ones -- from the pulpit is also an old, honored tradition. In Civil War days, preachers could be heard expounding with throbbing, poetic drama their views on slavery, or secession.
Pfleger's notions on what Hilary Clinton might be thinking seem way off base but, fuck sake, they're his notions to be freely expressed!
Apologize? What a wimp. Maybe someone oughta drag him from behind the pulpit like a rat, paint him yellow, and send him running to the nearest priest hole around so he can hide like the sniveling twit he is.
I am sooooo hurt. I thought I was gekko's favoritest television show character of all time.
The State of Vermont may consider Mr. Harper an asshole, and I certainly consider him a character, but to my recollection, he ain't on tee-vee no more.
So he'll have to settle for being my favoritest erstwhile television character of all time.
Reruns. It's the silly summer season, doncha know.
That said, Vermont prolly would let me have that on my plate.
Never admit you made a mistake, it's much more ego-building to pretend you did it on purpose... if you get really good at that you can start believing your own PR and go forward from there to become godlike in your fallibility.
Murphy has the cure for that shit, count on it.
It's a lot less painful just to abstain from fucking up.
Good luck with that one.
Father Pfucker is a big talker when he has a crowd cheering him on. Hmm, that sounds familiar...
BTW, about that apologizing thing?
It's a sign of weakness when one does it for political expediency.
It's a sign of weakness when one not only doesn't apologize, but holds a grudge.