You don't get to change your mind. You don't get to sheepishly remove posts and apologize. Well, technically you do, however, this is an example of why it doesn't matter.
The Power Line blog posted an inappropriate item (someone else's assessment, not mine). Next day, the poster apologized and the post was taken down.
Now the bad part…
Here's the ABA Journal article discussing the post. Here's the article linking the readers to the cached version of the removed post (here's an alternate method to accomplish this). Here's the Akin Gump chairman disavowing any connection to the blog.
The moment you hit "send" or "publish", it's already too late; you've been burned. World Wide Web, indeed…