Web Staff (Bottom Line Communications) – Give credit where credit is due.
After being called out by this site (See “Funkhouser Owed Apology“) for personal remarks about KCMO Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s appearance, Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks has apologized.
In a mean-spirited Oct. 20 column attacking the Mayor Hendricks had referred to “that horse face of his that only a mother could love.”
Sources had told Bottom Line that Hendricks had apologized to the Mayor. After Bottom Line asked Hendricks for confirmation of the apology, Star Readers’ Representative Derek Donovan wrote about it.
Even in Donovan’s column Hendricks took another shot at Funkhouser.
“It was petty of me to make reference to the mayor’s appearance in that piece,” he told Donovan. “I should have left it out.”
But, he then added that the main reason he was apologizing was that his remarks took away from his major message about the Mayor:
“It took away from my larger point, which is that this mayor has been ineffective and that Kansas City could certainly do better next time around. Besides, who am I to be making cheap cracks about other people’s looks: a nearly bald, bow-legged scribbler with a face only his mother could love. I’ll be more careful next time.”
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