In a March 31 NewsBusters post, Ken Shepherd chastises the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple for approving of Spike Lee’s apology to a Florida couple whose address he mistakenly tweeted as that of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Shepherd griped that “Lee has NOT apologized to Zimmerman or the Zimmerman family,” adding: “Isn’t Lee’s apology simply self-serving as it was extended to a party he never intended to harm in the first place?”
Shepherd, by the way, is an employee of the Media Research Center, where his co-workers saw nothing offensive in Rush Limbaugh spending three days denigrating Sandra Fluke and whose boss, Brent Bozell, declared Limbaugh’s so-called apology — buried on the weekend, limited to his use of two words and ignoring the dozens of other denigrating insults he hurled at her, and made in the face of a growing advertiser boycott — to be perfectly adequate, despite the fact that it was the very definition of self-serving.
If Shepherd didn’t think Limbaugh’s so-called apology was self-serving, why, would he apply that description to Lee, who has done much more to atone for his wrongdoing — like calling the couple personally and paying them a monetary settlement — than Limbaugh has?