Boy Scouts Apologize Over President Trumps Remarks at Jamboree

[workinclasszero]

Boy Scouts Apologize Over President Trump’s Remarks at Jamboree
By LIAM STACKJULY 27, 2017

Facing an angry backlash from parents and former members, the chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America apologized on Thursday for political remarks made by President Trump at the organization’s national jamboree this week, during which the commander-in-chief crowed over his election victory, attacked the news media and criticized Hillary Clinton and former President Obama.

Michael Surbaugh, the organization’s chief, said in a statement on Thursday that it was “never our intent” for the national jamboree to become a venue for partisan political attacks.

“I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree,” he wrote. He added, “We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.”

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/boy-scouts-trump-apology.html

[RKP5637]

1. Good!!! n/t

[workinclasszero]

3. Check the video on that tweet

Sure sounds like a meeting of the Hitler..er...Trump youth to me!

I gotta wonder how sincere this apology is ya know?

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, I heard part of it. Like a Hitler youth camp and he loves that shit. BSA had no

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alternative than to say something more. I doubt it's sincere. They have a history anymore of RW crap.

[workinclasszero]

26. It makes me sick

Just another formerly good American thing dragged into the right wing republican cesspool.

Heil Trumpf!

[malaise]

48. I said that the first time I saw that crap

[atreides1]

11. It's BS

He knew Trump was going to make apolitical speech and he did nothing to keep it from happening! He did nothing because as the CEO of AT&T, he needs to be on Trump's good side in order to get the nod from the DOJ, for the purchase of Time Warner!

All he did with this "apology" was pay lip service and it wouldn't surprise if he got permission to release this "apology", from Scaramucci!!!

[RKP5637]

17. Yep, please see my #14. n/t

[workinclasszero]

28. You explanation sounds right to me

[Ilsa]

2. That's much better.

The other apology was more of an excuse.

[pangaia]

16. it is not much better at all. totally insincere.

Just a milque toast CYA statement... from a guy who needs trump...

[Ilsa]

22. I guess there is nothing he can say, then,

that would be an apology? If he's tied up with or dependent on trump, then do you expect something else? I'm surprised a second statement was made at all, but I thought it was much better than the first.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. He could apologise to President Obama and Secretary Clinton for his scouts booing them

He could apologise to people in general for the behaviour of the scouts. Chanting "USA! USA!" at the thought of people losing healthcare? They were a bunch of barbarians. He could apologise for having failed to teach them the way to behave. He could resign if he is so dependent on Trump that he can't criticise him.

[Boomerproud]

55. Amen!

That was a classic political 21st century non-apology.

[mercuryblues]

24. the standard

if you were offended apology.

[G_j]

4. Of course that it not nearly enough

They need to condemn the disgusting speech point by point. They own that speech.

[defacto7]

35. Hear hear!

And now that the dime a dozen appology has been made, and after they condemn the speech point by point, what are they really going to do about it? Who's going to resign? Who's going to make sure it doesn't happen again? Who's going to set up a program to councel the scouts on why this was inappropriate?

Where a lot of damage has been done to the organization and the lives of these kids, much has to be required to restore honor.

I won't hold my breath.

[UTUSN]

5. Well, O.K. Now holding my breath for the actual offender to apologize.

[workinclasszero]

15. Quick breathe!

tRump will never apologize, you can count on that!

[sarisataka]

6. Better late than never...

but would have been much more meaningful two days ago.

[TexasProgresive]

7. What did they expect from the rooster who always crows about himself?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

8. O boy watch for fox news

To start mocking the scouts.

[duncang]

10. They need to say they want an apology from dipshit.

After that happens the national leaders who were there and should have stopped him need to resign. And it wasn't just political rhetoric. It was also a hate speech. It degraded those scouts who aren't christian with the merry christmas junk. That was far beyond rhetoric or inappropriate. He did not and still doesn't care what he did to the BSA. They need to see that.

[RKP5637]

14. I bet some of the leaders were just fine with his speech. I don't have much respect for

BSA anymore, and way back scouting was a major part of my life for years as an Eagle Scout.

[duncang]

25. I'm sure there were some.

I hated to see the "paramilitary" troops at summer camp. If you were camped near them you would hear a lot of hollering at the scouts. A tip off was the scout master driving up in his hummer and getting out looking more like a soldier then a scout.

I never had much respect for National. I always loved the local. I followed my son from cub scout to Eagle Scout as a leader. We were in a inner city scout troop. Some of the best times of my life.

[Chasstev365]

12. Good, but Benedict Donald is the one who should be apologizing to America!

[defacto7]

37. I wouldn't accept it or believe it if he did.

He's beyond redemption.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. He's still apologizing to those "who were offended."

It's the classic non-apology. Why not just say it was objectively wrong?

[G_j]

19. Exactly!!

it's nonsense. #FakeApology not accepted

[Bleacher Creature]

23. And it's not an unintentional choice of words.

It basically means "I'm sorry you're so thin-skinned that what I said bothered you!"

[defacto7]

39. Apologies are trite and have become a political tool

Actions are all I want to see.

[NYETNYET]

18. IT WOULD SEEM MORE BELIEVABLE IF

The scout leader standing behind him hadn't smiled the whole way through...

[duncang]

27. That was dipshit's secretary of the interior zinke

Dipshit brought his own props along with him.

[workinclasszero]

29. Exactly

Were they leading the chorus of boos against Hillary and President Obama, a former scout I believe, as well?

[defacto7]

40. I thought I saw him putting signs up and down.

(Sarc)

[RKP5637]

20. Trump would say exactly the same if given the chance. He's a demented asshole. n/t

[matt819]

21. Sorry BSA

That wasn't an apology. That was a mealy-mouthed attempt at an apology. Would that "apology" be accepted from your Scouts?
Apologizing if you were offended?

Great lesson for your Scouts. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[barbtries]

30. i guess it would just be unseemly to point out

who did it.

[Not Ruth]

31. The other scout groups need to disavow the Brown Shirts

Never again

[guillaumeb]

32. He said: "We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.

What he meant was:

we sincerely regret being called on our own deliberately made offensive decision to allow Trump to politicize the BSA.

[workinclasszero]

33. Yeah

I bet they invite the pussy grabber-in-chief next year too.

[Gothmog]

36. This was a weak apology

[defacto7]

42. A non-apology

[GeoWilliam750]

47. "I am sorry if you were offended"

Is not an apology

[spanone]

38. when is the asshole 'president' going to apologize?

[workinclasszero]

41. Never in a million years would be my best guess

And he will do it again next year, if he isn't in prison or in asylum in Mother Russia anyway.

[defacto7]

43. If he did...

would you believe him?

[spanone]

44. i don't believe anything about him. i don't believe he's president.

[defacto7]

45. ditto...

[spanone]

46. 👍🏼 😡

[hatrack]

49. If that's an apology, then a praying mantis is a construction crane . ..

And a Tonka Truck is a GEM.

[DFW]

50. A day late and a dollar short. Their brand isn't just damaged. It's now thalidomide.

Anyone who tries it can be assumed to have deformed children.

This should have come five minutes after Trump's speech, not after a week of waiting to find out that it bombed.

The scouts present were cheering Trump like a Hitler Youth rally:

This is just what Trump wanted. It will NOT be what parents of present and future scouts want. Some parents will either pull their kids out, or not let them join. That will leave the hard core Hitlerjugend clones to populate the scouts.

[Demtexan]

51. Only sorry to be called on it.

I will buy double the girl scout cookies I will buy and sent a letter to the boy scouts.

Must be a lot of blow back.

[workinclasszero]

53. I agree and by the look and sound of the Trump Youth rally/ Scout jamboree

the hardcore fascists have already taken over.

[The_Casual_Observer]

52. The trump is who should apologize, not those idiots.

[Jake Stern]

54. My opinion on this is that he chose the lesser of two evils:

1. He can make a half assed 'apology" that will largely smooth the ruffled feathers of a few thousand pissed off parents

or

2. He can bring down an F5 Trumpanzee shitstorm on himself AND the BSA by totally and openly repudiating Trump's speech.