Bingo.
In a now-deleted tweet, MSNBC predicted “the rightwing” would hate a cute Cheerios ad featuring a biracial family. MSNBC executive editor Richard Wolffe absurdly claimed that his race-baiting network’s race-baiting tweet was “not who we are at MSNBC.”
It's ALL you are, @msnbc. MT @TwitchyTeam MSNBC claims its conservative-smearing tweet 'isn't who we are' http://t.co/ruNLcFYKAC
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 30, 2014
MSNBC may have issued an apology for the tweet — the network’s totally sorry it got caught — but what about the article to which it linked?
Now @MSNBC have removed 'Conservative' from http://t.co/rH5u7ED0yN in prep to memory-hole:https://t.co/nCnkr1oN8L pic.twitter.com/37oGsInmr1
— BAH! Humbuggery… (@thehiredmind) January 30, 2014
@michellemalkin MSNBC has edited article, dropped 'conservative' from backlash reference: http://t.co/gCxbKaA4AX
— Kristinn Taylor (@KristinnFR) January 30, 2014
When first published, the article included this sentence (emphasis ours):
The breakfast cereal’s new Super Bowl ad features the same fictional biracial family that sparked a conservative backlash last year.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/statuses/428699506864308225
@msnbc it's really classy that the link ''sparked a conservative backlash' contains no story about a conservative backlash #misleading
— nilgirian (@nilgirian) January 30, 2014
Before MSNBC apologized for its repulsive tweet, it quietly memory-holed that version of the text. Here’s how it appears now:
The breakfast cereal’s new Super Bowl ad features the same fictional biracial family that sparked a backlash last year.
Oh, so there wasn’t a “conservative” backlash? Minds. Blown.
Here’s the even more telling part: MSNBC didn’t bother apologizing for that smear of conservatives. No retraction, no correction statement, no acknowledgment of the foul accusation. The slimy, sneaky editors just tried to disappear the evidence after conservatives turned up the heat.
Too bad Gateway Pundit has screenshots, huh guys?
You can also view MSNBC’s intended message in the article synopsis embedded in the next two screenshots:
Heh @IlliniWood @msnbc lucky I got a screenshot of what they originally posted complete pic.twitter.com/sTtA45Awnq
— nilgirian (@nilgirian) January 30, 2014
Go ahead and own this blurb, MSNBC: “Cheerios’ new Super Bowl ad features the same fictional biracial family that sparked a conservative backlash last year.”
oh hai @msnbc! couldnt help but notice you rm'd 'conservative' backlash fr ur story so I'll park the orig right here pic.twitter.com/sTtA45Awnq
— nilgirian (@nilgirian) January 30, 2014
Where’s the faux-pology for that? Oh, right. There isn’t one because that hateful, lying bilge is what MSNBC is all about.
Sorry, MSNBC. Love wins.
[Update]
According to this screenshot, the original MSNBC article also predicted “an outcry from the right.”
.@MSNBC would never engage race-baiting. Except when they predict 'rightwing outrage' #tcot http://t.co/OZtizorEJa pic.twitter.com/lvzPK5PpD3
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 30, 2014
The phrase “from the right” has been removed from MSNBC.com.
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