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Examples

  • So while yes, a 3-minute fauxpology is a good start, you need to make a better show of contrition.

    JetBlue Stinks up YouTube ‘Apology’ 2007

  • What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology?

    Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

  • Following his verbal diarrhea, Kornheiser offered a hollow “fauxpology,” stating that it wouldn’t be the last time he apologized for something–but that he did want to apologize for the comments he made about Storm.

    Tony Kornheiser Suspended | Manolith 2010

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  • Politicians do this all the time.

    Again I'm wowed by the folks over at neologasm.

    October 17, 2008