Perhaps Cenk is a bit unhappy that MSNBC canned his butt. He seems to have forgotten that amongst his progressive former MSNBC colleagues, race baiting is a stock in trade, so “progressives can’t be racist” is full of horse hockey.
Speaking of which, in the 90s, Cenk, who was born in Turkey, was a Armenian Genocide denier. How progressive…
Via Mediaite:
MSNBC President Phil Griffin bought himself some probation from the Republican National Committee by apologizing for a tweet that was sent from the official MSNBC Twitter feed, but also earned a stinging rebuke from former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur of the long-running online show The Young Turks. On Thursday’s edition, Uygur blasted the series of apologies from the network over a tweet that he acknowledged was “a little unfair,” but had some basis in fact.
The controversy is over a Super Bowl ad that is a followup to a 2013 Cheerios ad that featured a biracial family, and which caused the spot’s Youtube page to be flooded with racist comments. On Wednesday night, the official MSNBC Twitter feed tweeted a link to an article on the ad, along with the message “Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family.” (See the new ad here.)
About three hours later, that tweet was deleted, and apology tweets were issued. The RNC instituted a boycott of MSNBC, demanding a personal apology from MSNBC head Phil Griffin, and Griffin quickly obliged.
Uygur summarized the story, and said, of the reaction to the first Cheerios ad, “Look, they don’t represent the Republican Party, but obviously, MSNBC was referring to something. Whoever put that tweet out was saying ‘Remember when right-wingers were mad about this ad?’”
“Now, maybe you say ‘It’s a little unfair to just blanket say right-wingers,’” he continued, “but clearly, the people who were mad were not progressives or liberals, right? Obviously.”