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Source: New York Daily News
BY LESLIE LARSON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 9:11 AM
UPDATED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 12:41 PM
The Republican National Committee is calling for supporters to boycott MSNBC, after the network posted a tweet taunting 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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randr
(12,412 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Be the program directors
Rachael would have never apologized for this
villager
(26,001 posts)And entirely, absolutely inevitable.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)no one would have even noticed if not for the 'fake RW outrage' Rs self-create.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)Comcast/MSBNC is not it. It's owned by a huge corporation and it shills for corporate interests and it lies down and wimps out over every least little thing. It pretends to be progressive just to try to get ratings and profits but incidents like this prove is is not. It's pathetic.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)but sadly Gore sold out, so that went the way of the dodo.
ColumbusLib
(158 posts)There was no need for an apology; the tweet was the truth, and it was cute. I think they just did it to placate Reince- whatever!
TheDonkey
(8,911 posts)It seems odd that I find this apology so insulting. I guess after the firing of Martin Bashir, the shaming of Melissa Harris-Perry and now the overreaction to this tweet I can no longer in good conscious support the network that would so easily buckle to the RNC. I thought MSNBC was actually serious about its progressive target audience but now I see it is just milking progressives and not really in to defending them or our causes.
It will free up a lot of my time so it isn't all a lost.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)It used to be my go-to for news & 'just something to watch'. Over the past year, their content is aggrivating (do Matthews, Sharpton, Maddow AND O Donnell all really need to cover THE EXACT SAME STORY??) and their new hosts don't do anything for me.
Chris Hayes makes me want a valium. Homeboy's really wound up tight.
I like Rev Al but he's still so rough around the edges, sometimes it's hard to watch.
Big Ed is the left's version of Glenn Beck - flowcharts and all.
MHP seems really full of herself, sorta condescending.
And all the DAMN commercials!! 30-second teaser/lead in sessions followed by 7 minutes of commercials just plain pisses me off.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)threatening to throw a reporter over the balcony? And BTW, it was neither dumb nor offensive...what's dumb and offensive is that it is true...and all "the Wings" know it.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I hear RWers taunt Obama and the left like that all the time on FOX. Why should MSNBC apologize when you guys get to do whatever the eff you want?
Myrina
(12,296 posts)You can guarantee the company, the actors, everyone with anything to do with that ad will be boycotted or threatened in some way by the anti-tolerance Nutters.
So why should MSNBC back down from telling the truth? I thought that's what news channels were supposed to do ...
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Without a qualifier like "a small but significant minority of", it's bullshit.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They were right. The right wing made a big deal of the first commercial. Nothing to apologize for.