MSNBC apologizes for tweet taunting conservatives over Cheerios Super Bowl ad

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MSNBC apologizes for tweet taunting conservatives over Cheerios Super Bowl ad starring biracial child

The tweet was sent from the network's official account and was aimed at conservatives, assuming they would be offended by the upcoming Super Bowl spot that revisits an interracial family featured in a 2013 ad. MSNBC later apologized and removed the tweet.

MSNBC is backtracking after it used its Twitter account to taunt conservatives over the Cheerios ad starring an interracial family that will air during the Super Bowl.
"Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family," read a tweet posted late Wednesday on the MSNBC account, providing a link to a short article on the news website about the ad.


MSNBC apologized for the "offensive live tweet" and then deleted the message.

"The Cheerios tweet from @msnbc was dumb, offensive and we've taken it down. That's not who we are at msnbc," MSNBC.com Executive Editor Richard Wolffe tweeted.


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The tweet posted by MSNBC’s Twitter account, which taunted conservatives, was later removed.

Ironically, it was just weeks ago that the network's own host, Melissa Harris-Perry, had to apologize to Mitt Romney for mocking his adopted black grandson on her show.


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Weeks after MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and a guest panel gleefully mocked the Romneys for adopting a black grandchild, the network sent out a tweet suggesting that the “rightwing” writhes with rage at the sight of a biracial family.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...weet-taunting-conservatives-article-1.1596432

:rofl2:

MSNBC has nothing left, might as well change the call letters to DNC....



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StormX said:
Weeks after MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and a guest panel gleefully mocked the Romneys for adopting a black grandchild, the network sent out a tweet suggesting that the “rightwing” writhes with rage at the sight of a biracial family.
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who knew that Mormons could adopt grandchildren? who knew??? I suppose if they can proxy baptize long dead relatives, something like this is certainly not beyond the pale.
 
maineman said:
did anyone THERE say that the Romney's had adopted a grandchild?
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Mellisa Harris-Perry said it herself. Here's her apology below.



Harris-Perry said,


Last Sunday, we invited a panel of comedians for a year in review program. It’s what we call our look back in laughter. But in one of the segments, we looked at a number of photos that caught our attention over the course of the year. In that segment, I asked my guests to provide kind of off the cuff ideas for captions of the photos that we were seeing. Among the images we aired was one of the Romney family that showed Governor Mitt Romney’s grandchildren, including his adopted grandson, who’s African-American.

Now given my own family history, I identify with that picture and I intended to say positive and celebratory things about it, but whatever the intent was, the reality is that the segment proceeded in a way that was offensive. And showing the photo in that context, that segment, was poor judgment.

So without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family. Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy. But their families, and especially their children, should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. My intention was not malicious, but I broke the ground rule that families are off-limits, and for that I am sorry.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/melissa-harris-perry-apologizes-romney
 
I just used that to point out that stupidity is not the sole province of the left, as some in this thread might suggest.
 
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