“When governor Chris Christie of New Jersey discovered, on January 8th or thereabouts, that members of his staff conducted a vendetta against some of his political rivals by ordering the closing of some lanes of the George Washington Bridge and thus producing a colossal traffic tie-up that interfered with the lives of hundreds of thousands of commuters (including ambulances answering medical emergencies), he apologized to, well, the political rivals instead of to the people who were intruded upon by the vendetta. Pundits and commentators around the national joined in, with none of them noting that the apology was due not to the political rivals but to the ordinary citizens whose lives were disrupted.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34918/Tibor-Machan-Sign-of-the-Times-Misdirected-Apology/