MSNBC Deletes, Apologizes for Tweet That Suggested Right Wing Would Hate Biracial Cheerios Ad
Right wing outcry was against MSNBC, but in their defense, someone did freak out over the last Cheerios ad
Exactly one month after panelists on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show sparked a controversy by using a photo of Mitt Romney's African-American grandson as the inspiration for jokes about the Republican Party's alleged lack of diversity, the network is at it again. On Wednesday night @msnbc posted the tweet above, which links to an article that included the line, "Forget the Seahawks and the Broncos: there may be an outcry from the right but most viewers are likely to declare this ad the Super Bowl winner." So far the "outcry from the right" is aimed solely at the liberal network. Many conservatives tweeted photos of families that look a lot like the one in the Cheerios ad with the hashtag #MyRightWingBiracialFamily.
Several hours later, MSNBC deleted the tweet and changed the line in the article to "there may be another outcry."
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