Santa Barbara district attorney Tom Sneddon has finally apologized for the joking and comments he made at last weeks news conference regarding Michael Jackson. He responded to criticisim after he acted hugely unprofessionally by joking at last Tuesday's news conference. Sneddon told CNN's Art Harris in an Interview: "There were certain instances where I used humor to deflect questions, and I guess some reporters took offense. I think the criticism was valid, I think that to some extent [the comment] was inappropriate," he said. "I feel bad about it because I think I should've known better. I feel bad about it because somebody would assume that I'm making light of a thing where I know there's a serious crime, and that there are victims that have been hurt, and family." At the conference he referred to a glib comment, by welcoming the media circus surrounding the Jackson case because it would put money into the struggling California economy. That's not the only apology he made. He also apologized for an interview which took place on November 20 with Diane Dimond defending allegations that he was merely targeteing Michael Jackson to advance his career, in which he referred to Jackson as "a guy everybody calls 'Jacko Wacko.'" He said, "I made refrence to Mr. Jackson in some terms that are slang or jargon terms. I knew as soon as I said it , it was inappropriate, it was unprofessional [and] I was immediately sorry for it. My wife, when she saw the interview, chided me on it, and in all candor I'd have to say that if my mom was still alive she would take me to task for not being a good person, and I do feel badly for making that remark. I got more important things going on in my life than to listen to a song by a guy everybody calls 'Jacko Wacko,' said Sneddon. "I have my life and I do my job, and anybody who thinks I've spent 10 years sitting here waiting to read [lyrics] from Michael Jackson just has not got a clue. Or anybody who thinks that I'm doing this for political reasons is totally poppycock because I'm not running for re- election. I'm retiring in three years. And I've been successful, I have a good career. I'm not worried about getting another notch on my belt. The idea that I would subject myself to what I knew was coming, or the sheriff would subject himself, or that anybody in my office, to this avalanche of scrutiny that we all knew coming because we saw it in '93 and '94, should tell people something about why we were willing to go forward. It's our job, it's simply that." Source: Associated Press / MJFC 真是技巧高超的道歉... 连过世的老妈都牵拖进来... 有种就正面向MJ为自己的污陷及侮辱道歉啊! 公开道歉，却搞不清楚道歉的对象... 我看他只是因为晚节不保，想要漂白一下吧。 就不要让我知道他家在哪里... --

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