Hoyer: Sorry for Calling You Tea Baggers "Un-American"

From the Washington Times:

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Thursday he and Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a mistake when they called anti-health care protests "un-American" last year.

"That was not a good phrase, not a good use of language, it was not correct," Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said, adding that he did not see anything wrong with vigorous debating of philosophies.

In August, in the middle of a summer in which members of Congress were sometimes shouted down at town halls by constituents furious over the health care bill, Mr. Hoyer and Mrs. Pelosi wrote an op-ed article in USA Today decrying the tenor of the debate and complaining about baseless charges.

Well, he doesn't actually say sorry but he does admit the language was "not correct." Take what you can get.

Hopefully Hoyer will begin reading the op-eds his staffers write before they go to press from now on.

Hat tip: Dave in Texas