MSNBC host apologizes for attack on Mitt Romney's adopted black grandson

[jct74]

these people are sick!


MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry apologizes for attack on Mitt Romney's adopted black grandson

BY LESLIE LARSON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2013, 9:17 AM

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1562143.1388497434!/img/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/romney-2013-christmas-photo.png


MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry apologized Tuesday for openly mocking Mitt Romney's black adopted grandson, after Sarah Palin led the chorus of conservatives who criticized the cable news host.

The Romney family Christmas card was among the items featured in the "Nerdland plays Caption That!" segment on the cable news show Sunday.

In the photo, the former Republican presidential candidate and his wife Ann, who are both white, sit in the center of their 22 grandchildren. Nestled on Mitt's knee is one toddler grandson and on his other knee he holds baby Kieran James, the adopted infant son of Mitt's son, Ben, and his wife, Andelyne. His adoption was announced in September.

The Romneys, who are devout Mormons, have regularly showcased their five adult sons and their ever-growing brood.

After the image flashed on the screen during the show, actress Pia Glenn broke out in song, singing, "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same."

"That little baby, front and center, would be the one," said Glenn, who was among the four panel members who joined Harris-Perry for the segment.

Daily Beast's Dean Obeidallah, also on the panel, chimed in that he thought the photo was "great."

"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."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sarah-palin-msnbc-mitt-romney-attack-article-1.1562152

[jct74]

tube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02_8t_duB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02_8t_duB0

[Warlord]

She should be fired

[jkob]

It's pretty disgusting that MSNBC considers their opponent's kids fair game. You don't hear anybody talk about Malia and Sasha, why can't they extend that respect to everyone's kids?

[Cleaner44]

Ironic that the racist woman doesn't see that she is racist. Forget content of character, its all about color of skin.

[Occam's Banana]

It's pretty disgusting that MSNBC considers their opponent's kids fair game. You don't hear anybody talk about Malia and Sasha, why can't they extend that respect to everyone's kids?

It's not racist or hateful when progressives do it. Didn't you get the memo?

[Cowlesy]

You know what Mitt Romney, you have a really nice looking family. Really, just forget politics, and enjoy your time with all those grandkids. Don't let these vindictive, dark-hearted idiots at MS-NBC waste your time.

All of us are here for too short a time to worry about what skunks like MHP think about us or our family/friends.

[Danke]

Is Melissa Harris-Perry black?

[Matthew5]

All your childrens are belong to us!

http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/melissa-harris-perry-children-belong-to-us-600x345.jpg


I laughed out loud when she said, "Hey! Is that racist?" in naming her next segment.

[FrankRep]

CNN slams MSNBC for Romney photo joke
http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/194168-lemon-slams-msnbc-for-romney-grandson-joke


CNN host Don Lemon on Monday slammed his MSNBC competitors during a heated debate about the network poking fun at Mitt Romney's black grandson.

Lemon took aim at MSNBC after Melissa Harris-Perry's panel, while showing a Romney family photo with the black grandson, joked that "one of these things is not like the other," and that the photo represented the diversity of the Republican Party.

"It's a bunch of people on the left who all agree with each other, and there's no diversity of opinion," Lemon said of MSNBC. "And they're saying mean, smug things about people who may disagree with them."

Lemon suggested there would be more outrage if a white Fox News panel made similar jokes about the black grandson.
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[jkob]

MSNBC is doing us a favor, nobody will take their insane race baiting seriously by 2016 if they're even still on the air by then.

[enhanced_deficit]

This is encouraging christmas card photo by Mitt Romney.

Hope his leadership in adoption minority children will inspire/encourage other fellow GOP/Democrat politicians to also adopt little arab/afghan children made orphans after US led wars there. If Sarah Palin, Bush, McCain, Lieberman,Obama etc adopt one Iraqi arab/Afghan drone victim family child each and send photos out to media outlets, racial prejudices will automatically start dropping and future wars will become less likely.

[jct74]

An apology from Melissa Harris-Perry

By Melissa Harris-Perry
12/31/13 12:00 PM

On Sunday’s program, we showed a photo of Governor Romney holding his adopted grandson, who is African-American.

The intent of featuring the photo was to celebrate it— I often speak to the issue of the increasingly diverse American family.

Whatever the intent, the segment proceeded in an unexpected way that was offensive. Without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family and to all families built on loving transracial adoptions.


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http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/apology-melissa-harris-perry

[jct74]

her apology is full of crap, seems to me the intent was pretty obviously for everyone to mock

here's the full segment:
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/nerdland-plays-caption-that-102459971859

[Mr.NoSmile]

It's pretty disgusting that MSNBC considers their opponent's kids fair game. You don't hear anybody talk about Malia and Sasha, why can't they extend that respect to everyone's kids?

Well, you go back far enough...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUlEfuM-xU

Equal playing field, folks.

[enhanced_deficit]

Well, you go back far enough...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUlEfuM-xU

Equal playing field, folks.

You went back too far.

Karl Rove denies role in John McCain rumor in South Carolina ... (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34075.html)
www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34075.html‎ (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34075.html‎)
Mar 8, 2010 -
Karl Rove said Monday that he had “nothing to do” with a whisper campaign during the 2000 Republican presidential primary claiming Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had an illegitimate black child.

Rove, who was working for then-Gov. George W. Bush, said during an interview on NBC’s “Today Show” that the rumor came from “a professor at Bob Jones University” and not the Bush campaign.

“I thought John McCain would seize it for what it was, which was an enormous opportunity to give an insight into who he and his wife are because Cindy McCain adopted a child from an orphanage in Bangladesh,” Rove said.

http://www.justfamilies.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/27mccain-450.jpg (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=4GdsOdVcJGh8aM&tbnid=zO5QggTCMTOonM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justfamilies.org%2Fif-youre-thinking-of-being-my-mother-it-dont-matter-if-youre-black-or-white%2F&ei=txfDUr6mIYaOkAfYq4CgCg&bvm=bv.58187178,d.eW0&psig=AFQjCNHAw9yub5A9UDslZ4IPcDDQOJf9hQ&ust=1388603697509283)



MSNBC is doing us a favor, nobody will take their insane race baiting seriously by 2016 if they're even still on the air by then.

Tend to agree.

Based on limited sampling, 90% of MSNBC has been overly partisan jokers but they have 10% shiny spots here and there that end up being silenced mostly. Phil Donahue was one such example who despite having a high rated show was fired by MSNBC ****bags in 2003 because he was speaking out against Iraq invasion.

On second thought, they are probably 99% clowns lately.

[juleswin]

I was just about to go in hard on her because she embodies just about everything I hate in a news commentator. She is a partisan which essentially makes her a dishonest person, she is also a feminist and a pretentious person - nerdland? come off it. Then I watched the offending video and quite frankly, I don't see the racism.

Come on guys, this is not what conservatives are supposed to be doing, leave it to the liberals i.e. make a big race deal out of something that doesn't deserve it. Yes, they pointed out that he is black which in of itself its not racist, they also criticized his placement in the center of the picture which I bet they would have even harsher was he placed in the back/side like the 2 other white infant grand kids, they also joked about him marrying Northwest when he turns 27. All of which are petty, juvenile swipes at an infant but not racist.

Yes, what a lovely looking family they have. Lousy politician, but good family man.

[Lindsey]

her apology is full of crap, seems to me the intent was pretty obviously for everyone to mock

here's the full segment:
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/nerdland-plays-caption-that-102459971859

The whole segment was tasteless; I'm not sure why they televise these conversations.

[sluggo]

I can't believe a woman who wears tampon earrings on national television would do something tacky.

[pdavis]

Is Melissa Harris-Perry black?

Half black.

[enhanced_deficit]

Half black.

That sounds like strange term. I don't recall any headline saying "Obama is America's first half-black Prez". Half is always missing.

[Danke]

Half black.

She looks more white. What is the other half comprised of?

[FrankRep]

Flashback:

Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘Obamacare’ a ‘Derogatory Term’ Conceived by ‘Wealthy White Men’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/melissa-harris-perry-obamacare-a-derogatory-term-conceived-by-wealthy-white-men/

Bozell, Hannity Mock Melissa Harris-Perry for Pretending 'Obamacare' Is 'The Moral Equivalent of the N-Word'
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/12/15/bozell-hannity-mock-melissa-harris-perry-pretending-obamacare-moral-equi

[compromise]

The left despise the institution of family and prefer abortion to adoption.

[ctiger2]

http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mhp4.png



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkiWxbfocqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkiWxbfocqU

[Ender]

That sounds like strange term. I don't recall any headline saying "Obama is America's first half-black Prez". Half is always missing.

It's the old US policy of 3 drops of black blood in your heritage make you BLACK.

[Occam's Banana]

Is Melissa Harris-Perry black?


Half black.

Going by the pics & the vid thumbnails, I would've guessed half-Klingon ...

[FrankRep]

This created quite the firestorm.

Racism is hilarious! MSNBC panel mocks, belittles Romneys’ adopted grandson
http://twitchy.com/2013/12/30/racism-is-hilarious-msnbc-panel-mocks-belittles-romneys-adopted-grandson/

[James Madison]

That sounds like strange term. I don't recall any headline saying "Obama is America's first half-black Prez". Half is always missing.

One drop rule?

[Neil Desmond]

Well, you go back far enough...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUlEfuM-xU

Equal playing field, folks.
I don't consider Limbaugh a member of the team on my end of the field. Neocons like Limbaugh along with these "progressive" left types are two birds of a feather flocking together.

[Cap]

This sounds like a classic wedge issue to me. Designed to divide and keep everyone at each other's throat. I'd say she accomplished that quite well and more than a few are falling for it.

[specsaregood]

She looks more white. What is the other half comprised of?

That's just her human skin garb; underneath its all green scales. If you look close enough you can see her forked tongue.

[pcosmar]

I can't believe a woman who wears tampon earrings on national television would do something tacky.

I thought that was the same one.
The only thing I noticed about the pic was Romney's love for uniforms.

Saw the same on Mackinac Island,, all his hired help in the same shirts.. Which they ditched as soon as their shift was up.

[Lucille]

She's vile. They all are.

Weird how this family never occurred to them when they were all yucking it up.

http://fluxhawaii.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/0bama-family-1970s.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bUraws-yjZ8/Tg6fBaUygII/AAAAAAAABZw/uWiOWalQulU/s1600/obama-with-his-stepfather.jpg

http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/wnd-20110407-obamagrandparents.jpg

[Neil Desmond]

She's vile. They all are.

Weird how this family never occurred to them when they were all yucking it up.

http://fluxhawaii.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/0bama-family-1970s.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bUraws-yjZ8/Tg6fBaUygII/AAAAAAAABZw/uWiOWalQulU/s1600/obama-with-his-stepfather.jpg

http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/wnd-20110407-obamagrandparents.jpg

Yeah, and BTW those are very lovely photos of Mr. Obama and his family, just like that photo of the Romneys with their grandchildren is also a very lovely photo.

[Lucille]

Melissa Harris-Perry apologizes for Romney grandchild jokes: Sincere?
http://news.yahoo.com/melissa-harris-perry-apologizes-romney-grandchild-jokes-sincere-175941053.html


“One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same,” sang out one of Ms. Harris-Perry’s guests, actress Pia Glenn.
[...]
Pia Glenn apologized to families with adoptive children but defended herself vociferously against charges that her sing-song comment was racist.

It absolutely was racist. You know she believes that baby "doesn't belong," and should be raised by "his own kind." And they all guffawed because they agree. It's how progs roll.

Vox Day talks about how when the SHTF, the progs will be the most virulent racists (because they are) deporting and segregating like you can't believe (it's already started in Europe). Obama doesn't seem all that fond of the whites in his family either. Skin color is probably why he identifies with and obsesses over that drunk loser "father" who he met a handful of times, only a few that he can remember, instead of the people who actually loved him and raised him.


The capper was provided by comedian Dean Obeidallah. “It sums up the diversity of the Republican Party and the [Republican National Committee], where they have the whole convention and they find the one black person,” he said.
[...]
“I’ll apologize to the Romneys but not the wing nuts,” Mr. Obeidallah writes in a Daily Beast column Tuesday titled “Confessions of a Romney Baby Bully (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/31/confessions-of-a-romney-baby-bully.html).”

I don't think anyone should apologize. I'm sick of all these bullshit public apologies anyway. Don't say it if you won't stand behind it. You said it, you meant it, you still mean it, so save it.

[pdavis]

She looks more white. What is the other half comprised of?
Her mother is white and her father is black.


Going by the pics & the vid thumbnails, I would've guessed half-Klingon ...
Lol.

[GunnyFreedom]

Pretty sure the black grandchild is a girl, not a boy. If you notice, the family pic has a theme going, and unless the Romney's are trying to raise a cross-dresser....

[angelatc]

her apology is full of crap, seems to me the intent was pretty obviously for everyone to mock

here's the full segment:
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/nerdland-plays-caption-that-102459971859



"On Sunday’s program, we showed a photo of Governor Romney holding his adopted grandson, who is African-American. The intent of featuring the photo was to celebrate it— I often speak to the issue of the increasingly diverse American family.
"Whatever the intent, the segment proceeded in an unexpected way that was offensive. Without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family and to all families built on loving transracial adoptions," the statement said (http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/apology-melissa-harris-perry).


Right. I totally believe that she showed the picture to celebrate the increasing diversity of the increasingly diverse American family during a segment where actresses and comedians try to make up funny captions that insult the people in photographs.

Fox News should have a Sunday afternoon show called "What was I thinking?" to highlight these things.

[angelatc]

Pretty sure the black grandchild is a girl, not a boy. If you notice, the family pic has a theme going, and unless the Romney's are trying to raise a cross-dresser....

No, his name is Kiernan, and he's a boy. (http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/09/21/Kieran-Romney-is-Mitts-newest-grandchild/9031379784321/) The liberals have been pissed about this since September. MSNBC just decided to jump in, and got nailed.

If you dig around, you can find plenty of liberals bitching about the Romney's buying their own slave, demanding they give the baby back, and all sorts of other typical liberal ugliness.

[GunnyFreedom]

No, his name is Kiernan, and he's a boy. (http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/09/21/Kieran-Romney-is-Mitts-newest-grandchild/9031379784321/) The liberals have been pissed about this since September. MSNBC just decided to jump in, and got nailed.

If you dig around, you can find plenty of liberals bitching about the Romney's buying their own slave, demanding they give the baby back, and all sorts of other typical liberal ugliness.

Huh. I wonder why they dressed him to match the girl's theme then. It's clear from the picture that they had access to blue checker baby clothes.

[angelatc]

Huh. I wonder why they dressed him to match the girl's theme then. It's clear from the picture that they had access to blue checker baby clothes.

Maybe they're trying to make him gay, so they can have a two-in-one deal. <ducking>

[angelatc]

I don't consider Limbaugh a member of the team on my end of the field. Neocons like Limbaugh along with these "progressive" left types are two birds of a feather flocking together.

And in addition, he was called out harshly over it from both sides of the aisle, and that was pretty much the last of it we heard from the right. But the left went after Palin's kids with a level of hate that should have been a wake up call to anybody on the fence about what drives these people.

[jmdrake]

tube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02_8t_duB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02_8t_duB0

Oh the irony. At 1:10 in she says "And we've got more to get to including our 'was that racist' segment".

[sylcfh]

Harris-Perry is about as much of a condescending leftist as one can possibly be, but can Sarah Palin just go away forever?

First she stands up for "free speech" for people she agrees with (as if a contract between two parties with no government interference has anything to do with free speech), and just a few short days later she becomes the speech police. This is not the first time this has happened.

[klamath]

You know what Mitt Romney, you have a really nice looking family. Really, just forget politics, and enjoy your time with all those grandkids. Don't let these vindictive, dark-hearted idiots at MS-NBC waste your time.

All of us are here for too short a time to worry about what skunks like MHP think about us or our family/friends.This.

[donnay]

Pretty sure the black grandchild is a girl, not a boy. If you notice, the family pic has a theme going, and unless the Romney's are trying to raise a cross-dresser....



http://thegrio.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/kieranromney.jpg?w=840
Mitt Romney posted this picture on his Twitter Friday. The caption read, “Our 22nd grandchild was officially adopted today: Kieran James Romney. cc: @AnnDRomney.” (Photo courtesy of Twitter)

The name Kieran is a baby boy name.

Gaelic Meaning:
The name Kieran is a Gaelic baby name. In Gaelic the meaning of the name Kieran is: Black.

American Meaning:
The name Kieran is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Kieran is: Black.

Celtic Meaning:
The name Kieran is a Celtic baby name. In Celtic the meaning of the name Kieran is: Dark skinned.

Irish Meaning:
The name Kieran is an Irish baby name. In Irish the meaning of the name Kieran is: Black or dark.

http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/kieran

[moostraks]

Pretty sure the black grandchild is a girl, not a boy. If you notice, the family pic has a theme going, and unless the Romney's are trying to raise a cross-dresser....

The other boys look to be toddlers not infant size. He appears to have on a boy shortalls similar to this:
http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mr6aflk2-A5Amm-DrThgqbw.jpg

The two types of check were dizzying enough and they might have decided to go with something that was boy and color matched the theme that was easier to find? It still went with the theme even if he didn't match the other boys. :) Creepy uniform picture but nice looking children...

[jct74]

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry breaks down during Romney apology

By DYLAN BYERS | 1/4/14 4:22 PM EST


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hRMW9sz7U


MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry offered a tearful and passionate apology to the Romneys on Saturday for remarks she and her panelists made about the family's adopted black grandchild.

In a segment last week, Harris-Perry joked about the grandson while one panelist, actress Pia Glenn, sang “one of these things is not like the other” and comedian Dean Obeidallah sought to draw a parallel to the Republican Party's problems with diversity. The remarks drew heavy criticism from high-profile conservatives like Sarah Palin and Scott Brown.

Harris-Perry apologized on Twitter early last week, but criticism continued to mount, as both CNN and Fox News ran reports on the remarks.

In her apology on Saturday, Harris-Perry said she had intended to say "positive and celebratory things" about the photo.

"But whatever the intent was, the reality is that the segment proceeded in a way that was offensive, and showing the photo in that context of the segment was poor judgment," she said. "So, without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family."

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read more:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/01/msnbcs-melissa-harrisperry-breaks-down-during-romney-180553.html

[Dianne]

That really broke my heart. What a beotchhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!! She must have missed the photo shopped picture of Obama and his "alleged"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxgtIXrsnTUGrandparents... The resemblence is uncanny (LMAO) Cheap photo shopping as well.