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MSNBC Host Pokes Fun at Mitt Romney's Black Grandson

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  1. roxxfan

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    http://tv.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-host-makes-fun-mitt-romney-black-grandson-023826137.html

    MSNBC Host Makes Fun of Mitt Romney’s Black Grandson

    By L.A. Ross
    17 hours ago

    MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry concluded the “What’s So Funny About 2013?” segment of her Sunday show with a chorus of laughter at the black grandson pictured in former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s family Christmas photo. The chuckles were directed at baby Kieran – who was adopted by Romney’s son Ben and his wife Andelynne in September.

    “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same,” panelist Pia Glenn offered as a caption for the photo, which the Romneys tweeted on Christmas Eve. (Lyrics of the original Sesame Street song are, “One of these things just doesn’t belong.”)

    “And that little baby, front and center, would be the one,” Glenn said.

    Comedian Dean Obeidallah joked that the baby is a token.

    “It really sums up the diversity of the Republican party and the RNC, where they have the whole convention and they find the one black person.”

    Conservative blogs on Monday roundly criticized MSNBC and the panelists for the segment. Commentator Caleb Howe wrote tongue-in-cheek on The Right Scoop: “He’s not a child adopted by loving parents prepared to provide him with a better life in keeping with the family’s values. Nope. He’s just a token. A punchline, not a person.”

    “It’s funny because Romney is white and his grandson isn’t, which is obviously hilarious. Because as everyone knows, the races should not mix,” Howe added [emphasis original].

    Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, who ran for president in 2008, also has an adopted child of a different race. McCain’s wife Cindy brought daughter Bridget home after a cyclone relief trip to Bangladesh in 1991.

    Glenn acknowledged the controversy on Twitter Monday but fell short of apologizing, instead blaming the producers of the show for springing the photo on her and the panelists.

    She wrote in response to a critic, “”Really? You think I’m a producer on the show? You think I chose that photo & new [sic] it was coming?”

    “Yes, I sang the song. There are many children in the pic & only 1 black child. I don’t see that as mocking or attacking the baby.”

    Harris-Perry and other panelists have thus far remained mum.

    Ironically, the segment ends by teasing the next block, an annual “’Look Back in Laughter’ tradition of asking ‘Hey – Was That Racist?’”
     
    #1 roxxfan, Dec 31, 2013
  2. Invisible Fan

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    Cable news shills have no souls. If the teleprompter tells them to jump, they only have to wonder how high.
     
    #2 Invisible Fan, Dec 31, 2013
  3. ferrari77

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    Her faux apology at the end is disgusting. If one can even call that an apology.

    Regardless of one's political party preference, there was no need for her comments mocking Romney, his family and their new grandson.

    Hopefully MSNBC will suspend her for her comments.
     
    #3 ferrari77, Dec 31, 2013
  4. Invisible Fan

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    They should fire the producer for setting up the idiotic segment.

    Not that they would since they're getting ratings from whatever sick attention they're getting right now.
     
    #4 Invisible Fan, Dec 31, 2013
  5. juicystream

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    What a terrible show. That was a painful 5 minute clip.

    The panelist was definitely out of line. She didn't chose the picture, but she chose the comment.
     
    #5 juicystream, Dec 31, 2013
  6. ThatBoyNick

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    Sounds like a scene that belongs on anchorman 2.
     
    #6 ThatBoyNick, Dec 31, 2013
  7. Commodore

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If I were a Freudian, I'd say Perry accused the Romneys of adopting a black child for the precise reason she suspects MSNBC adopted her.</p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/statuses/417799313004060672">December 30, 2013</a></blockquote>
    <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     
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  8. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    That's pathetic. Adoption is a great thing.
     
    #8 rockbox, Dec 31, 2013
  9. LosPollosHermanos

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    thats pretty low. **** msnbc
     
    #9 LosPollosHermanos, Jan 1, 2014
  10. TheresTheDagger

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    Garbage segment on a garbage network.

    Say what you will about Fox, CNN, and other networks and their bias....

    MSNBC takes it to another vile level.

    M ust
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    N onstop
    B ullsh**
    C ontinuously
     
    #10 TheresTheDagger, Jan 1, 2014
  11. Bandwagoner

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    Why only the blacks got to apologize. WTF about that douchebag looking, fake ass george stephanopoulos and the shemale piling on whoever the hell they are? This is all a scam to get higher ratings from a show that no one probably watches. Which makes this ACTUALLY offensive.
     
    #11 Bandwagoner, Jan 1, 2014
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    Fauxtrage! Way to end the year in style.
     
    #12 SamFisher, Jan 1, 2014
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    Another false distracting pseudo political issue. So what? Bad taste. Fox does it all the time, but that doesn't make it totally right-- just hypocritical for righties to be so politically correct while accusing libeals of being politically correct.
     
    #13 glynch, Jan 1, 2014
  14. dc rock

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    MSNBC is Dullsville. If they want to be interesting they should hire Sam Seder, Andy Kindler, and Tom Scharpling.
     
    #14 dc rock, Jan 1, 2014
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    That's funny, I see ALL of the 24 hour "news" networks as spewing the same bullsh!t continuously, but feel free to delude yourself about Fox if you like.
     
    #15 GladiatoRowdy, Jan 1, 2014
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    Multiple people should be fired for this
     
    #16 King1, Jan 1, 2014
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    Whats even more funny is this woman is half white and she hates white people :rolleyes:
     
    #17 rudan, Jan 1, 2014
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    incredibly tasteless. The liberals around here are hypocrites if they give her a pass.
     
    #18 bigtexxx, Jan 1, 2014
  19. Dairy Ashford

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    Romney could conceivably be a CEO, Governor, major party chief or political or business commentator in the near future; offensiveness aside a cable news network wouldn't want to incentivize his freezing them out.
     
    #19 Dairy Ashford, Jan 1, 2014
  20. Dairy Ashford

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    I'm less offended by the hypocrisy than by my own sympathy for what seem to be a genuinely nice and well adjusted extended family.
     
    #20 Dairy Ashford, Jan 1, 2014
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