a modern classic

[sisyphusshrugged]

For those of you who, like me, collect non-apology apologies, here's a great one from Glen Campbell

"Yesterday, I was arrested and put in jail," he said in a statement issued through his publicist. "Even at my age, I learned a valuable lesson. I apologize to my wife, my family, my friends and my fans."

I guess the owner of the car he totalled and drove away from, the cop he tried to kick in the balls and everyone he endangered out on the road with a .15 blood alcohol level got what was coming to them.

edit: aw, Roy got all poetic on me.

Comments

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

that's gonna hurt sales in the contemporary Christian music market...

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing (don't hold me to this, but I'm guessing) that Jesus is gonna save him.

I've had no use for the man since he wrote his book about how little seventeen year old Tanya Tucker flat held his grown man ass down and made him do drugs and drink and commit adultery.

Although it probably did wonders for her street cred, at least in some circles.

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

Jesus may save his ass, but to the evangelicals, his ass is a GRAPE.

Amy Grant divorced her husband and Michael English committed adultery and their careers TANKED.

Few are more fickle and unforgiving than conservative evangelicals. but we already knew that.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they've polled them on Rush?

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

Some people say this stuff without irony (http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/003558.shtml#003558).

the lesson learned?

[mehetabel.livejournal.com]

Even at my age, I learned a valuable lesson


If you're too drunk to drive your ass home, you're too drunk to drive your knee into a policeman's groin?

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Country music singer Glen Campbell (news), arrested at his Phoenix home on suspicion of extreme drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, issued a public apology on Tuesday for his conduct

Looks like he was trying to court the youth market with extreme sports.

Glen's song

[(Anonymous)]

By the time I get to Phoenix,
I'll be in handcuffs...
I'll try to knee a cop,
And miss his groin..."

Re: Glen's song

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

It's knowin' that the car is always runnin' and the booze is in my brain.
That makes me want to raise my knee and try to kick the trooper once again.
And it's lookin at the handcuffs they have placed upon my wrists that aren't rhine
That make we sing like Johhny Cash and simply say, "My friend I walked the line."

[(Anonymous)]

Dang, Julia, at least provide a hyperlink. Some of us aren't following celebs 24/7, you know. ;)

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-glen26.html

- Elayne (http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com)