Which tells you enough about how sad world media is nowadays. Jesus on a piece of toast a couple years back made the world press, too.
True, it is easy to see it - with the picture being exactly like that. In any other angle, I'm sure it's a perfectly normal kettle.
Apologizing was silly, nobody in their right mind could've suspected them of doing it on purpose. As for pulling the kettle, it might've sold out fast enough as a novelty item, really... though yeah, probably best not to order new ones after that, or to modify them slightly at least.