After an outcry from Twitter conservatives, MSNBC has deleted and apologized for its tweet accusing right-wingers of hating biracial families. Absurdly, MSNBC executive editor Richard Wolffe claims the tweet doesn’t reflect the network’s views.
Earlier, this account tweeted an offensive line about the new Cheerios ad. We deeply regret it. It does not reflect the position of msnbc.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 30, 2014
We are deleting the earlier offensive tweet. It does not reflect msnbc's position and we apologize.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 30, 2014
Ha ha! That’s a good one!
Of course, nobody was fooled:
@richardwolffedc Nice that you apologized, but that racist tweet is exactly what you are. @MSNBC
— jon gabriel (@exjon) January 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/428743980080054272
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/428744605082083329
https://twitter.com/JasonBWhitman/status/428743134269276160
Um yes it is “@richardwolffedc: The Cheerios tweet from @msnbc was dumb, offensive and we've taken it down. That's not who we are at msnbc.”
— Casey (@space_case12) January 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/428742854685360129
@richardwolffedc Are you sure about that? This sort of thing seems to come up a lot on @msnbc.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) January 30, 2014
.@richardwolffedc I thought “dumb” and “offensive” was *exactly* who you are at @msnbc… @TwitchyTeam
— Veronica L. Vera (@Three_13) January 30, 2014
@richardwolffedc @TwitchyTeam @msnbc Bull. It's exactly who you are. Filth.
— Missouri Dave-Text TRUMP to 88022 (@MissouriDave1) January 30, 2014
@msnbc @TwitchyTeam Regret bc you riled up the target of said tweet & you looked bad. You knew exactly what you wanted to say and said it.
— American Girl (@essdeemeyer) January 30, 2014
https://twitter.com/ttjemery/status/428741174937927680
I'm sorry, but @MSNBC has done far too much lately to hype racial tensions to just walk that back.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) January 30, 2014
I think the deleted tweet reflected @msnbc's position pretty well. They just didn't like that we all noticed.
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) January 30, 2014
You mean: "We are sorry we directly stated what our coverage insinuates 24 hours-per-day." @msnbc
— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) January 30, 2014
MSNBC apologizes for tweet accusing the right of being racist. No word if they will apologize for MSNBC news doing the same daily.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) January 30, 2014
Indeed.
Editor’s note: In an earlier version of this post, there was a typo in Richard Wolffe’s name. We regret the error.
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