In Case You Missed It of the Day: After George Zimmerman’s lawyer, Craig Sonner, bailed on Lawrence O’Donnell moments before he was due to appear on The Last Word, O’Donnell decided to go ahead and conduct the interview anyway — with Sonner’s empty chair.
According to O’Donnell, Sonner is “the first guest in the history of this particular show to get scared, to be so terrified of coming on this show that he has literally run away.”
In other Trayvon Martin news, Geraldo Rivera, who came under fire last week for suggesting that Martin would be alive today if it weren’t for his hoodie, released an quasi-apology this afternoon for his insensitive remarks.
In an email to Politico, the Fox News correspondent-at-large wrote: “I apologize to anyone offended by what one prominent black conservative called my ‘very practical and potentially life-saving campaign urging black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go around wearing hoodies’.”
Despite the unapologetic tone of his apology, Rivera did admit to having “obscured the main point that someone shot and killed an unarmed teenager” by “putting responsibility on what kids wear instead of how people react to them.”
Unable to sign off before defending his indefensible position one last time, Rivera concluded by referring to hoodies as “gangsta style clothing” which “minority families” must be warned about.
[thelastword / politico.]
