MSNBC Chief Phil Griffin Apologizes for ‘Outrageous’ Tweet; Dismisses Responsible Person

things to say about them.. just sayin.

The person was just telling a truth. Perhaps is was wrong to tweet that because wingers getting their panties in a bunch was rather predictable, but you don't fire someone for it. Why is MSNBC running scared from the crazy right? I don't get it. And I miss Martin Bashir a lot.

...and don't kid yourself - MSNBC, like the rest of the media, is only as "liberal" as their CONSERVATIVE corporate ownership allows them to be (in this case, Comcast).

Being "A business" makes sucking up to the Republicans at the expense of the American people OK?

But this is not just any business, it is a major news source which is trusted by millions of people. They can't just practice "good business."

the person that wrote it was doing the job they were hired to do, yes? That sounds pretty "sanctioned" to me.

Although I have not investigated the details.

next thing they'll fire somebody for giving driving directions:

"Do not take the first right turn." = grounds for dismissal.

-90%Jimmy

Griffin is a craven suck up and so are all others who put "business" interests over

self-respect and principle.

they say shit like this all the time. Anybody ever get fired over there?

Fox would have given who ever sent it a promotion. Maybe a time slot of their own.

I found this e-dress from a previous DU post:

Phil.Griffin@nbcuni.com

Screw "Mr. Priebus," and the political party he rode in on.

“Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad
w/ biracial family,” the tweet read.

*********



The right wing has been working to keep people of color from having the same voting rights that
they enjoy for years and they are still doing that right now. Ever heard of Richard Nixon's "Southern
Strategy?" Which has been the foundation of the republican party for years and it now has a
bastard son called Fox News. Or how about Ronald Reagan starting his campaign in Neshoba County,
MS which has a very nasty history as per treatment of people of color.

The problem with so many people on "our side" is they back the hell down when the right wing
clutches it's pearls and hits the fainting couch about the nasty thing we liberal say. God damn it
the man spoke the truth that some right wingers will be upset over a nice imagine of a biracial
marriage.

We should all be jumping up and down and saying A TRUTH TWEET IS A SWEET THING MOTHERFUCKERS
AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT SHOW US WHERE IT WAS WRONG AND MR. RINSE PENIS WHAT ABOUT THE
VOTING LINE IN THE PICTURE BELOW? SO KISS MY ASS YOU PEARL CLUTCHING D-BAG! THE TRUTH
HURTS DOESN'T IT?

the tweet and add @MSNBC to it.

“Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad
w/ biracial family,”

Good suggestion.

Let a thousand flowers bloom...

Don't it?

but this runs a close second. A more distant third place for the day of course is reserved for a semi-private matter here that I will not speak of, but it's overall been a real banner day for Puke Promotion. It's not even Friday, that's when the really nauseating stuff usually drops...

These creeps actually THREW AWAY the lunches of kids who looked

about eight years old, rather than let those kids eat them, because their

parents were behind on their bill...You've got to be a REAL scumbag and, I

suspect, Right Wing Ideologue to do that and I'm NOT surprised it happened

in the most conservative state in the country.

The school did apologize -- bad PR, it seems -- but I'd love to know who name

and title of the bastard who ordered this.

not, I should think, in modern, first world nations.

Yeah, never!

It has never happened. Not for Beck, Hannity or any of the morning morons.

Definitely not for any offensive guests either.

It would have been their loss.

Next I hope they get rid of Joe "as a conservative" Scarborough - but that's never going to happen.

Anyone know where we can find a backbone cheap? This wimp needs one.

p.s...another reason I stopped watching MSNBC.

M$NBC gives in to these RW assholes it just validates the ignorance they proudly spout. Does he think teabaggers are going to suddenly start watching because he caves?

the only reason the right got wadded up is because it's the fucking truth. and nice job by griffin of perpetuating the myth that liberals will just roll over when commanded. fuckin bravo. clap. clap. clap.

Phil Griffin's latest apology to Reince Priebus makes me think that @MSNBC stands for Must Show No Balls Constantly.

-90% Jimmy

...and they CAN'T show "balls", because of who owns them and funds them.

I've had it with MSNBC.

capitulation. what is wrong that these RW jerks deserve all this deference. It's truly mind boggling.

I really wish we had that kind of power. We just bark on the media folds.

I really do not see anything wrong with the tweet

then I unfollowed them and tweeted the exact words of that tweet several times. compared to comparing Sandra Fluke to a sl** word even though I can swear here I won't. Rush is still working.. but someone states something that everyone else states and Phil has to apologize. clearly MSNBC is no longer a news outfit. well it hasn't been in sometime. all the proper news outfits are online. Huffingtonpost despite some problems in the comments sections is where I get my news. MSNBC just basically sealed the final nail in the coffin how the fact that the right is Racist is more offensive that saying Blacks enjoyed being beaten up, that 15-16 yr olds should marry and that Anus should be mentioned at all have no idea. So Conservatives are pussies

over it. Phil Griffin is a schlemiel to the craven right.

Idiot...

The GOP has morphed from a conservative party that worried about taxes being too high to a far right party for whom any taxation (especially on the upper income brackets) is too high and appeals to the kind of reprobates who would have a problem with somebody else's relationship with someone of a different race, a different religion or the same sex.

The tweet in question didn't mention the GOP by name, just right wingers. If it had substituted Republicans for rightwing perhaps an apology would be in order, since not every Republican is Klansman or on the staff of Bob Jones University.

As it is, Mr. Griffin apologized to Mr. Priebus, who by demanding an apology made a tacit admission that the GOP appeals to racists, misogynists, sectarian bigots and others who claim to love America while hating most Americans.

Having been half of a racially mixed marriage for twenty years, one which produced two bi-racial children who are now adults. Now that Mr. Griffin has apologized to Mr. Priebus, I would like to see if he apologizes to me.

My response to the thread about the tweet is here.

....and if I see the kind of ugly, right-wing responses I expect over the new cereal ad, I plan on making Phil Griffin aware of them. I am sick to death of liberal media people losing their jobs for actions that conservatives get away with on a daily basis.

That's a great plan and I doubt there will be any shortage of racist filth either!
Can you keep a tally of what you find and post some samples here so that those willing can send them to Mr. "Capitulate-In-Chief" Griffin?

so they had a change and will now be OK with it? Now MSNBC is joining CNN and Fox 'news' as an RNC propaganda vehicle?

... and he gets fired. Why did MSNBC let the RNC wimp them out?

That is just a fact. Too bad MSNBC can't face the truth.

When you are just speaking the TRUTH!

The tweet was true.

If you're supposedly on the left.

FIRE the employee? Meanwhile on- air right wing celebrities constantly revile liberals and denigrate the POTUS (who gets the least respect from them of any president in history...and no, jokes about G.W, Bush were never comparable). From them we get the very occasional non-personal apology ( sorry if I offended anyone). why isn't the "left wing" media all over this imbalance?

Your choreography is being provided by Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Tea Party-Kansas). Read about it in today's "Salon."