NME Is Sorry for Calling Morrissey a Racist

"We wish to make it clear that we do not believe that he is a racist," the British magazine offered in a statement on the long-simmering libel case over Morrissey's 2007 comments about U.K. immigration policy. "We didn't think we were saying he was and we apologize to Morrissey if he or anyone else misunderstood our piece in that way." Okay, but everyone understood the Chinese "subspecies" quote pretty clearly, right?