Oops! MSNBC Apologizes to Latino Reporter Lobby for Bad Cinco de Mayo

May 6th, 2014 3:42 PM
In a quick trip from NewsBusters to the doghouse, MSNBC executive Alec Korson, who’s in charge of Morning Joe and its lead-in Way Too Early, apologized to angry Latinos at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for mocking Mexicans by having a producer drink tequila in a sombrero in front of anchor Thomas Roberts. He sent a note to NAHJ president Hugo Balta: “On Monday, Cinco De…

What If Fox News Instead of MSNBC Had Pulled This Cinco de Mayo Stunt

May 5th, 2014 7:34 AM
¡Ay caramba! Imagine the cries of offensive ethnic stereotyping or worse if Fox News had observed Cinco de Mayo by having one of its yanqui persons of pallor stagger across the set in a sombrero while chugging from a bottle of tequila? But it happened on MSNBC, so the PC police probably won't make a peep.  At today's transition from Way Too Early to Morning Joe, there pranced producer Louis…