The Rest of Lynn Jenkins' Apology

Nebraska congresswoman Lynn Jenkins recently apologized for offending anyone with her comment about her fellow Republicans "trying to find a great white hope." She said that the comment had nothing to do with President Obama and she claimed that she was completely unaware that the phrase had racial overtones.

What was not reported on though was the fact that she, at the same time, also apologized for other comments that she insisted were misinterpreted as being racially insensitive. I have the rest of the apology here:

"As I said already, I don't know how the president got injected into this debate. Clearly my comments had nothing to do with race, but I can see how, if you really wanted to, you might have been able to misinterpret them.

For example, when I said, 'I hate that Uncle Tom' I was referring to my Dad's brother Thomas Crowley. He's a real bastard. But I never knew that his name was also a racial slur. That's definite news to me. And I guess I should also clarify that the Aunt Jemima I referred to is his wife.

Also, when I said, 'we need to dunk that Oreo in milk' I was simply commenting on how I like my cookies served. See, I don't like chocolate. And milk makes the chocolate taste not as strong. That's all. It was just a statement about my food preferences and nothing more.

And when I said, 'let's get someone to beat that lazy porch monkey' I was referring to the monkey that lives on my porch. He hangs out there with the raccoon, or 'coon', that I also made reference to. My porch is like a zoo; I really can't explain it. But the monkey in particular is quite lazy. I ask him to do some chores or help out in some way, but instead he just lies there. And any time I try and reach some sort of compromise with him, like on his health care for example, he just throws his feces at me. It's terrible. Someone clearly needs to beat some discipline into him. That's all I was saying. I had no idea that term could also be used in a racial way.

And finally, when I said, 'I have this friend who has a black president that she hates. Do any of you white people out there have any white friends who might be able to defeat him?' that was clearly not about me, but about my friend Schmlynn Schmenkins from Schmebraska. It's a very small country very far away, but when I see her next I'll totally have her give you guys a call and straighten this whole thing out.

So see, obviously I am not a racist. At all. This has just been one big misunderstanding. I mean I'm always the first to call a spade a spade, but in this case I am clearly no spade. If by 'spade' we mean horrible bigot. So I'm glad we have that all cleared up.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go get that tar baby out of my watermelon patch."

Comments

[DDKAHALAS]

Evil doesnt die easily it possesses people because of their affinity for it like a moth to a flame.
for this reason humanity for the most part is on the verge of extinction. whatever future humanity has
will be decided by the few the very wealthy and the self-interested.

We thought that Adolf Hitlers time was ending. it didnt. it carried over to the far rights take over of Corporations Business and went so far to be called Global Elite. Eisenhower warned about the Military Industrial complex but that was the Waterloo for average Americans.. The Senate is now full of bought politicians who do what is right for the international Corporations and not the average americans..

This is a very dangerous time and our lack of intelligence wisdom and love for each other is close to turning this Country into a society manifested by anarchy and horror we wouldnt believe possible...

[LMPE]

I await racist comments from other right-wingers, just so that we can boot them out next year.

[leugim]

President OB and the Dems need to go alone with the public option. Republicans and conservatives are so full of hate.r.e.d for having lost the election and also against a black president that their are blind. The bad part is that those wing N.U T s get a lot of free stuff from the so call socialize programs. I havent seen any old Republican rejecting Medicare.

[Ambertolina]

Lynn Jenkins is a Congresswoman from Kansas, not Nebraska. Yeah, sure, it all looks the same out here.

[sense oar sheep]

this is disturbing coming from a legislator

the right wing is using false, radical, and hateful speech as regular political discourse

the GOP morphed into a party completely comprised of zealots

[LemonMeringue]

Lynn Jenkins town hall
Tuesday September 1
4 p.m.
Lawrence, Kansas
Dole Institute of Politics on Petefish Drive

[flamenco]

You know, this may have been insensitive, but it does represent reality, I think, in terms of what they're planning, so it's just as well we hear it.

[Pumpsie]

You guys DO realize that this article is a satire, right? Jenkins made the original statement re: "a great white hope" but all the rest of it is Andy Stokan making fun of her with a made-up "apology" that uses exaggeration for effect. You understand that, right?

[henrypapillon]

OK, so now you're an apologist for the Republican Party? We read it right here and saw it with our own eyes and now you are telling us it isn't so. How are you related to Lyn Jenkins? If I were her Uncle Tom Crowley I wouldn't take this sitting down , nor would I stand for it if I were her Aunt Jemima. Jemima is a Very Popular name in Nebraska, and I bet there are a lot of Jemima's in Nebraska that are miffed over this, not to mention all those monkeys and raccoons that live on people's porches.. Nosiree Bob, fella, we aint lettin' you slide on this one. You have demeaned monkeys living on porches and that is the last straw. Nobody ever said anything bad about stupid congresswomen from Nebraska with noses that have hideously wide ends on them. We let the stupid people talk and have their say and even if their noses are hideously wide at the end, we never say anything about them.

[roald]

We understand and we understand that the original apology was not an apology.

[dimplesmile7]

The apology is so typical. Make the racist statement they proclaim innocent due to being naive. I can see right through it.

[Strepsi]

LOL

P.S. Wou;dn;t that make a wonderful illustrated children's book?
"Lynn Jenkin's Porch"

[MillinMn]

My goodness .... in what part of Kansas are those anachronisms still in use?

She doth protest too much. There are SO many ways to make your point clear using English language without employing well-known racially polarizing terms.

Why would she use them?

[JustMusing]

A "Great White Snark" attacks. Not surprisingly, it's a Republican. And by refering to it, I mean no offense to the following:

Wiki:

Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
Snark (Half-Life), fictional small, bug-like species of alien used as a weapon
Zn'rx, a race of fictional aliens in Marvel Comics publications, commonly referred to as "Snarks"
Corporal Snark, a minor character in Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
A species of creature in The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel In the Ocean of Night (1977) by Gregory Benford

A new definition to add to Wiki: Lynn Jenkins, a fictional human being.

[kareemachan]

Republican "apologies" these days:

1) I apologize if anyone was offended.

2) I didn't start it.

3) I was just passing it on.

4) It was "only" a joke, a song, an email, a mailing.

[Holypat777]

I once knew a Leonard Jenkins but I don't what happened to him . . . Hmmmm . . . Strange . . .

[hippiesandwich]

Kansas, not Nebraska.