NBC forced to apologise after ill-timed ad features a monkey doing gymnastics - right after showing Gabby Douglas' gold medal victory

More woes for NBC after it shows ad featuring monkey doing gymnastics, right after Gabby Douglas' big win
Commercial was for Animal Practice - an upcoming NBC sitcom
NBC says 'no offense was intended' with the ad
She's now an international celebrity after taking gold in all-around gymnastics competition on Thursday

6 posted on 08/05/2012 12:33:17 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

To: Chode

If one wants to see racism everywhere, one will see racism everywhere.

Blacks today look at everything through a prism of race. They don’t leave home without the race card.

12 posted on 08/05/2012 12:52:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

see msg 6 as well.

15 posted on 08/05/2012 1:06:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

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