Dean Apologizes to Vets, Not ‘Right-Wing Nut Jobs,’ for Sniper Comments

Dean Apologizes to Vets, Not ‘Right-Wing Nut Jobs,’ for American SniperComments (Mediaite)

Ever since former DNC chairman Howard Deanreferred to the millions of people going to seeAmerican Sniper as “very angry” members of the tea party on Bill Maher’s show last Friday, he has been facing on onslaught of criticism from everyone from Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson to actor Gary Sinise and everyone in between. On Tuesday evening, he used his appearance on MSNBC’sHardball to offer up an apology, with some major caveats.

Doing something he said he’s “almost never done in politics,” Dean said he wanted to “apologize” to the veterans. “I haven’t seen the movie, and I think it was wrong,” he said of his assessment.

“I make no apologies to the thousands of right-wing nut jobs who have Twittering me with nasty language, but I do apologize to the veterans. We owe them a lot and I think this movie was much more nuanced than I thought.”