It's also rhetoric and dishonesty to call what Obama did an "apology."
He's just reminding the immature children who can't take a joke, that it isn't like the joke is the United States' official policy, so RELAX cave people with cell phones.
I never once said it was an apology. It was by no means an apology. It was a condemnation.
However....someone who wants to stir up troubloe with Muslims can say..
"he condemend this action becuase he is concerned we will all act like children and hold our breath til we are blue....."
It is important to be consistant when in the public eye.
Condemning this hate speech and not other hate speech isolates Muslims as "special"...be it good or bad.
Oh gosh.
Here's what happened:
A big event happened in the world.
The Pres was drawn to having to speak on it.
In said speech, he reaffirmed we don't agree with ANY hate speech - againsy ANY Religions, and said so EXPLICITLY.
Now a small, tiny little thing in NYC he doesn't even know about happens, and his condemnation of anti-religious bumblejargain just a week before isn't good enough.....now - because he addressed something that was MAJOR world news with continuing deaths........he now must address ALL Religious degradation or else be a hypocrite.
And in adult speak, that frame of mind is called being a busy body. It's small ball, and deserves to be laughed at because of how childish it is, in and of itself.