MSNBC is on a roll!
During today’s edition of “Ronan Farrow Daily,” our favorite Cronkite Award winner reported that Ray Hutchison, husband of former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, passed away. Unfortunately, MSNBC’s graphics department apparently thinks that when you’ve seen one Ray, you’ve seen ’em all:
Ronan Farrow reports Kay Bailey Hutchison's husband Ray just passed away — and posts pic of Ray LaHood. pic.twitter.com/8yimafrBfA
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 31, 2014
Oof.
Hello @msnbc_breaking @MSNBC – why did you just show a pix of Fmr.Tran Sec'y Ray LaHood when announcing death of Sen. Hutchison's husband?
— Steve Scully (@SteveScully) March 31, 2014
Good question. LaHood, you see, is very much alive:
"I'm still alive," Ray LaHood tells me, re MSNBC info graphic
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 31, 2014
So, how does something like this happen? Here’s one possible scenario:
"*googles Ray Hutchinson* *Puts first pic found on air*" – @MSNBC a few minutes ago. https://t.co/c8cl6r5SHQ
— RBe (@RBPundit) March 31, 2014
That actually sounds like something MSNBC’s clowns would do. Ineptitude is the name of the game over there.
Ugh @msnbc just put up picture of Ray Lahood instead of ray Hutchinson who passed away.
— patmcgill (@patmcgill) March 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/450685061239943168
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/450685979251453952
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/450686856552656896
Ray LaHood is NOT dead pic.twitter.com/74dsPv0DTr
— Luke Johnson (@johnson) March 31, 2014
https://twitter.com/brianwperry/status/450688119227301889
Ha!
Oh well. MSNBC can at least hope for a silver lining:
Maybe this'll help with the Ray-tings RT @Raffiwilliams: Hey @RonanFarrow that's Ray LaHood pic.twitter.com/MTYossCLl9
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) March 31, 2014
Farrow needs all the help he can get.
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