{"id":1084,"date":"2024-12-03T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:10:14","slug":"1084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/1084\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Apology Regarding “2000 Mules”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote about the apology from Salem Media to Mr. Mark Andrews for defaming him as an illegal voter in a film it distributed. Yesterday, the creator of the film, Dinesh D\u2019Souza, issued a statement of apology<\/a> to Mr. Andrews.<\/p>\n

In the film, \u201c2000 Mules,\u201d Mr. Andrews is depicted as a \u201cmule\u201d who harvested fake ballots. In his statement, Mr. D\u2019Souza explained that new information had recently come to light showing that the surveillance videos he used in the film, including the footage that depicted Mr. Andrews, were based on inaccurate information; and that, had he known that, he would\u2019ve made the film differently. (The State of Georgia investigated<\/a> and determined that Mr. Andrews was voting legally and hadn\u2019t done anything wrong.)<\/p>\n

This statement is not really an apology. It\u2019s at best an acknowledgement of wrong, and comes across more like an excuse\/explanation. It’s good that Mr. D’Souza is publicly acknowledging that he would\u2019ve done things differently if he had had accurate information. But he doesn’t call it a “mistake,”\u00a0 and he doesn\u2019t take responsibility for the “inaccurate information.” Instead, Mr. D\u2019Souza blames others for providing him with the information, as if he had no responsibility himself to verify it before basing the film on that misinformation. Instead of acknowledging the harm he caused Mr. Andrews, which Mr. Andrews said included death threats to him and his family, the statement says he is \u201csorry for any harm he believes he and his family has [sic] suffered.\u201d In other words, he doesn\u2019t believe Mr. Andrews was harmed.<\/p>\n

Strangely, he says he still has confidence in the premise of the film, that there was systematic election fraud in the presidential election of 2020. This undermines his assertion that the new information led to a new understanding which prompted the apology. If he really wanted to apologize sincerely, he would’ve omitted this paragraph.<\/p>\n

Mr. D\u2019Souza says he\u2019s not apologizing in hopes of settling the lawsuit that Mr. Andrews has filed against him, but rather because \u201cit is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote about the apology from Salem Media to Mr. Mark Andrews for defaming him as an illegal voter in a film it distributed. Yesterday, the creator of the film, Dinesh D\u2019Souza, issued a statement of apology to Mr. Andrews. In the film, \u201c2000 Mules,\u201d Mr. Andrews is depicted as a \u201cmule\u201d who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}