Posted on 12/31/2013 9:49:54 AM PST by Kaslin
MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry lined up a panel of alleged comedians to mock the Christmas picture Mitt Romney posted on Twitter. In a segment with the on-screen question "What's So Funny About 2013?" Harris-Perry announced: “This is the Romney family. And, of course, there on Governor Romney’s knee is his adopted grandson, who is an African-American, an adopted African-American child, Kieran Romney.”
To which comedian and actress Pia Glenn sang the old Sesame Street ditty “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same … “And that little baby, front and center, would be the one.” Laughter ensued. The black website NewsOne reports Glenn issued sincere apologies on Twitter for her insensitivity to transracial adoptions. (Video below)
MSNBC's Harris-Perry Mocks Mitt Romney's Adopted African-American Grandson
“I am absolutely aware of the added challenges of interracial adoptive families and I see how I added to that. I did not mean to. Still wrong,” Glenn tweeted. Then, to conservative actor Nick Searcy, who has an adopted black son: “I want to apologize again. I'm sorry.”
This is clearly not a joke they’d make or song they'd sing on MSNBC if it showed Barack Obama with his white mother and grandparents. There’s no reason why they would need to do it when a black child is adopted. Kieran was adopted by Romney’s son Ben and his wife Andelynne, who had no children.
How many black children has the MSNBC panel adopted?
“And isn’t he the most gorgeous?” Harris-Perry responded, perhaps since the joke was already accomplished. “My goal is that in 2040, the biggest thing of the year will be the wedding between Kieran Romney and North West. Can you imagine Mitt Romney and Kanye West as in-laws?”
Sure. West can accuse Romney of being careless about drowning black people, just like David Chalian and the liberal media.
Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah added: “I think this picture is great,” he said. “It really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person.”
News One concluded: "Though Glenn’s apology is without a doubt sincere, the incident probably won’t die down until Harris-Perry addresses it on the air."
A few minutes before this outburst, panelist Jamie Kilstein of “Citizen Radio” offered the typical take on MSNBC that all Republicans for all of American history have been racists:
“Can I just say, my newest pet peeve with the Republicans, I was watching MSNBC, – I’m practicing selling out, I have no money – I was watching and they brought on, you know, a white racist Republican, and Republicans ...Their like, biggest name-dropping thing, they always try to name drop Abraham Lincoln. They're like, ‘tell me why Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. It's like, Yo! If that's the last dude you have that wasn’t racist, from the Civil War, the one with the top hat who was also kind of racist, you are in a terrible position.”
UPDATE: Harris-Perry has posted apologies on Twitter: “I work by guiding principle that those who offend do not have the right to tell those they hurt that they r wrong for hurting.”
And: “Therefore, while I meant no offense, I want to immediately apologize to the Romney family for hurting them.”
This tweet raised the question of why this mockery ever happened in the first place: “As black child born into large white Mormon family I feel familiarity w/ Romney family pic & never meant to suggest otherwise.”
If you’re so smart, why don’t (MHP) keep your filthy racist mouth shut in the first place?
The Self-Righteous Left always get caught in their own hypocrisy.
The media nitwits need to take up crow hunting and learn some good recipes — they are certainly going to need them.
Melissa Harris-Perry is a black communist..A sick piece of trash..
I had no idea that one could adopt grandchildren.
It would be funny if it was a joke. It was a political statement masked in a joke like most of their filth.
Pray America is Waking
“Melissa Harris-Perry is a black communist..A sick piece of trash..”
An unemployable token with no real economic role.
"I am sorry. Without reservation or qualification. I apologize to the Romney family.
"I work by guiding principle that those who offend do not have the right to tell those they hurt that they are wrong for hurting.
"Therefore, [u]while I meant no offense[/u], I want to immediately apologize to the Romney family for hurting them."
So, in other words, I'm sorry I hurt you, but you should not have been hurt because I meant no offense. A non-apology, apology.
This was set up on that show. It was a direct, intentional attack on the Romney family, and specifically using an innocent little baby as the butt of the joke...with all of their smug laughter, somehow making it a party atmosphere.
These people have no moral compass. They are sick.
Melissa Harris-Perry is a black communist..A sick piece of trash..Melissa Harris-Perry, an African-American professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state, something we thought history would teach her is a bad thing, saying in a promo for MSNBC that “we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
If you missed it, MSNBC’s statist tool Melissa Harris-Perry has been featured in a TV spot where she expresses her leftist/statist/Marxist rhetoric that your children don’t belong to you, not to your family. They belong to the collective, to the village, to the government Borg.
Harris-Perry endorses the concept of human ownership by the government — sounds like state slavery propaganda to me.
This trash teaches peoples children about communism..
Does anyone know if the sanctimonious Kennedys’ have a person of color in their family?
Excellent point
TRUE!!!!
She “meant no offense”? My goodness. She lives and breathes hate, and like a fish surrounds by water, isn’t even aware that it is there.
Its a typical leftist half ass “apology” they apologize by still trashing the person therefore never really apologizing
Did all three of MSNBC viewers hear about this? I hope the entire NBC/Comcrap brand dies. I have been watching Olympic trials on NBC the last week or so, and it is difficult. I do not want politics and sport mixed. I will watch the Olympics because of sport. I will mute or change the channel when competition is not occurring.
I demand they be required to participate in racial sensitivity training sessions with Jesse Jackson and meet with him and Al Sharpton immediately!!
And they’re upset with Phil? Pot calling the kettle black .... or something.
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