Yahoo Finance in typo tweet: 'Trump wants a much n----r navy'

Daily News ^ | 1/6/17 | CHRIS SOMMERFELDT

[Timpanagos1]

A social media administrator at Yahoo Finance needs a copy editor — badly.

The news site's Twitter account shared an inconspicuous news story Thursday evening about President-elect Donald Trump wanting to expand the U.S. navy — but a misplaced "n" in the tweet's caption turned the whole thing on its head in a disastrous manner.

[Hieronymus]

I had a great uncle who survived the sinking of the Saratoga at Guadalcanal. I don’t remember President Saratoga, but he was probably better than Zero and Carter.

[Hieronymus]

Make that the Lexington and Coral Sea—but the point stands.

[Windflier]

The brits did have the HMS Hood

Good one!

The HMS Hood actually came to mind, but I didn't make the obvious connection. Great wit!

[cynwoody]

Niger Roy Innis is a Republican. He is chairman of Tea Party Forward.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Can we name a garbage scow after Obama? How about the S.S. Trashheap?

Right now Obama is still the commander of his “Queen’s Navy” along with Mabus the Pansy.

Soon Chicago will be missing another one of its’ leading village idiots since he and Mrs Wideload will be polluting DC for years to come, unless he is arrested, tried and convicted of treason. GITMO has a cell just for him, you know.

[dp0622]

He’s here all week :)

[dp0622]

MY GOD! I just typed n....r in gmail to see if it came up as a misspelled word. It didn’t!

wow.

[dp0622]

It would either be pink or have the ISIS logo on it.

No guns and men in dresses who refuse to fire on the enemy.

[xrmusn]

actually, all Aircraft Carriers are named after former Presidents .
= = = = = = = =
Shouldn’t EVER use the word actually around here UNLESS you are absolutely correct <: <: <:

I don’t recall President Stennis, President Nimitz, President Vinson and the next one is slated to be Enterprise....

[shibumi]

"MY GOD! I just typed n....r in gmail to see if it came up as a misspelled word. It didn’t!"

Maybe if you put some letters where those little dots are...

(I'll be here all week.)

[SMGFan]

the password was “Bigger”

[Robert357]

I guess we know where the real racists are....(in the MSM).

[dp0622]

ROFL!

[cynwoody]

MY GOD! I just typed n....r in gmail to see if it came up as a misspelled word. It didn’t!

Why would you expect it to come as misspelled?

[shibumi]

Heck, from the way the title is posted I assumed Trump wanted a “nICEr” Navy.

You know, like more pleasant and presentable.

[dp0622]

I don’t know lol.

Thought in the world of PC it just would.

[dp0622]

lol.

We’ve had enough of that.

[Enchante]

not all, some

Nimitz, Stennis, and Vinson (current US carriers) were not presidents

before the current Nimitz class (which does have 7 carriers named after presidents) most US carriers were NOT named after presidents

[Enchante]

Well we can name something for Obama:

[cynwoody]

Even when I was in grade school, if a dictionary didn't have dirty words in it, I considered it broken.

My dad was an Illinois lawyer.

Back in the 60's when I was in seventh grade, I liked to pull his law books down from the shelf and show my friends the statute on the abominable and detestable crime against nature and what should happen to whomever should commit same. They had questions, and I had the answers. Better than the dictionary, LOL!

How much better my childhood, had the internet existed!