Santa Barbara district attorney Tom Sneddon has finally apologized for
the joking and comments he made at last weeks news conference regarding
Michael Jackson. He responded to criticisim after he acted hugely
unprofessionally by joking at last Tuesday's news conference.
Sneddon told CNN's Art Harris in an Interview: "There were certain
instances where I used humor to deflect questions, and I guess some
reporters took offense. I think the criticism was valid, I think that
to some extent [the comment] was inappropriate," he said. "I feel bad
about it because I think I should've known better. I feel bad about it
because somebody would assume that I'm making light of a thing where I
know there's a serious crime, and that there are victims that have been
hurt, and family." At the conference he referred to a glib comment, by
welcoming the media circus surrounding the Jackson case because it would
put money into the struggling California economy.
That's not the only apology he made. He also apologized for an interview
which took place on November 20 with Diane Dimond defending allegations
that he was merely targeteing Michael Jackson to advance his career, in
which he referred to Jackson as "a guy everybody calls 'Jacko Wacko.'" He
said, "I made refrence to Mr. Jackson in some terms that are slang or
jargon terms. I knew as soon as I said it , it was inappropriate, it was
unprofessional [and] I was immediately sorry for it. My wife, when she
saw the interview, chided me on it, and in all candor I'd have to say
that if my mom was still alive she would take me to task for not being a
good person, and I do feel badly for making that remark. I got more
important things going on in my life than to listen to a song by a guy
everybody calls 'Jacko Wacko,' said Sneddon. "I have my life and I do my
job, and anybody who thinks I've spent 10 years sitting here waiting to
read [lyrics] from Michael Jackson just has not got a clue. Or anybody
who thinks that I'm doing this for political reasons is totally poppycock
because I'm not running for re- election. I'm retiring in three years.
And I've been successful, I have a good career. I'm not worried about
getting another notch on my belt. The idea that I would subject myself
to what I knew was coming, or the sheriff would subject himself, or that
anybody in my office, to this avalanche of scrutiny that we all knew coming
because we saw it in '93 and '94, should tell people something about why
we were willing to go forward. It's our job, it's simply that."
Source: Associated Press / MJFC
真是技巧高超的道歉... 連過世的老媽都牽拖進來...
有種就正面向MJ為自己的污陷及侮辱道歉啊!
公開道歉，卻搞不清楚道歉的對象...
我看他只是因為晚節不保，想要漂白一下吧。
就不要讓我知道他家在哪裡...
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