Al Franken is latest to be accused of sexual assault

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If I may ask, what would a 'sincere' apology look like?

One with fewer cliches, and perhaps an actual apology, lol.  He never even wrote the words, "I'm sorry."

You want the literal words "i'm sorry"?  I think his statements capture pretty well that he deeply regrets his actions and is ashamed of how he hurt these women.

The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them.

And I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful of my actions. And I’ve tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I’m aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.

He even leads off by saying straight up, that he's guilty of the accusations.  If you don't think he's actually showing remorse/apology, do you think he's saying "Yes, I did it, but I'm not sorry"?

The guy is absolutely a creep and if the women involved wanted to bring some sort of charges, or if he lost his shows, or if he was sued, I wouldn't shed a tear, but I don't know how you read an apology that takes full responsibility and shows shame for his actions as 'insincere'.  

And I agree that an apology beforehand would've been better, but by that logic then no public apology in response to any revelation could ever be sincere.

As for the 'he tried to make good with the women after the incident' thing - I think I must've heard that in one of the interviews I was watching surrounding this issue, so I can't provide a definite source for that, so you can disregard that.