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MSNBC apologizes for Cinco de Mayo segment
AP ^ | May 6, 2014

Posted on 05/06/2014 11:54:53 AM PDT by don-o

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is apologizing for a Cinco de Mayo segment that featured a staff member onscreen wearing a sombrero, shaking maracas and taking a swig from a bottle of tequila.

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To: DManA

The Irish can take a joke.

Jesse was mistaken and using the Irish reputation in doing so.

The streets and the subway system in New York, built by laborers, Irish predominant, are in very good order after over 150 years.

You must visit, to get an idea of what you are talking about.

My own family had the Bricklaying contract for the Empire State Building. It was put up in 1033, during the Depression. In a very short time. Have an uncle who was an engineer on the Trade Center.

they put up the gargoyles on the Chrysler Bldg and the ornamental plastering at Radio City. The brownstone at the Natural History Museum.

The Irish were not known in those parts, where they had so much input, as doin shoddy work due to drinking. So, any jokes regarding that from another part of the country where, BTW, they had no predominance, would not be a joke, but a lie and a mean one.

SO, as I said, the Irish won’t take lying.

And St. Pul, by the way, was settled by Scandinavians and Germans.

The Irish would like for him to just stick to the truth, and they’ll take any jokes therein.


61 posted on 05/06/2014 1:14:15 PM PDT by stanne
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To: 353FMG

They don’t even celebrate it in Mexico.


62 posted on 05/06/2014 1:16:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: don-o

They need to apologize for banning Speedy Gonzales from the airwaves!


63 posted on 05/06/2014 1:21:31 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: don-o

I have read this. I have notified all of my to proceed to our survival shelter located somewhere in the upper southwest. The security outfit that we have hired to move on-notice stores of food, bottled water, medical supplies, firearms, large libraries of music, books, sporting equipment, and exercise equipment for the indoor gym has been notified by code work. Of course, we will not be taking along Fritos. We think this one stunt by an MSNBC employee will cause the downfall of American civilization. Oh yes. We are prepared to stay encapsulated for the next 100 years.


64 posted on 05/06/2014 1:25:37 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: stanne
There was a depression in 1033? must have been due to those pesky first millennialists
65 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:29 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: rawcatslyentist

My very favorite Warner Brother character is Slow Poke Rodriguez, Speedy’s cousin.


66 posted on 05/06/2014 1:32:29 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: stanne

Let us review the action.

A post is made about a tasteless “joke” on national TV about the drunken Mexicans. The Mexicans take umbrage but you scoff at their reaction saying the Irish can take a joke.

In my personal experience the Irish are as prickly as any other nationality, maybe more, so I test this theory by providing you with a PERFECTLY analogous example of a tasteless “joke” on national TV about the drunken Irish.

You prove my point by becoming all prickly.

I have nothing to say about the Irish in general. But one specific self identified Irishman can’t take a joke any better than the Mexicans.


67 posted on 05/06/2014 1:49:53 PM PDT by DManA
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To: thorvaldr

I celebrate Leif Erikson Day by wearing my horned helmet and drinking Aquavit straight from the bottle.

Is that racist?


68 posted on 05/06/2014 1:55:43 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: DManA

There are plenty of jokes about drinking Irish that are based on the truth that the Irish can take

The Irish in this country celebrate st Patrick’s day with everyone and include everyone and would never dream of demanding that anyone ESP school kids to not display the American flag on any day

And if you don’t think thee are many depictions of drinking Irish you are mistaken. And they are based in truth. But not putting crooked roads int some frozen place in Minnesota they’d never been to

So kleptomaniac going but you’re not going to win


69 posted on 05/06/2014 2:05:54 PM PDT by stanne
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To: 353FMG

Started out as party excuse early 90s


70 posted on 05/06/2014 2:08:43 PM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: don-o

71 posted on 05/06/2014 2:19:38 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: don-o

I am torn over the cinco de mayo celebration of the defeat of a NATO ally by our biggest drug supplier.


72 posted on 05/06/2014 2:36:07 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: stanne

I think the Mexicans are making those same points about showing a guy in a sombrero staggering around drinking from a tequila bottle.


73 posted on 05/06/2014 2:37:28 PM PDT by DManA
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To: SpinnerWebb

They didn’t know the first thing about finance.

Then there was another Depression. It was in the early thirties here and THAT was when the Empire State building was built.


74 posted on 05/06/2014 2:42:06 PM PDT by stanne
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To: DManA

The Irish can take a joke like that.


75 posted on 05/06/2014 3:00:09 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Red Badger

And what is wrong with that? I do not get the apology. I live in San Antonio. We celebrate Cinco de Mayo here more than they do in Mexico. And....Fiesta just ended.


76 posted on 05/06/2014 3:16:45 PM PDT by DallasSun
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To: don-o

MSNBC...Stinko Da Pinko


77 posted on 05/06/2014 3:18:17 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Sacajaweau

Well, they do but not like we do here.


78 posted on 05/06/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by DallasSun
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To: stanne

It is the same joke as you take offense to.


79 posted on 05/06/2014 3:29:15 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Nope. It’s the same joke we don’t take offense to. Dressed up as Leprauchans and drinking.

The one we do take offense to is the one where our outstanding achievements are denigrated and lied about.


80 posted on 05/06/2014 3:55:43 PM PDT by stanne
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