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We apologize to the Romney campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flare-up began when MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts read a post written by gay activist John Aravosis who writes for the liberal Americablog, that read, \u201cRomney\u2019s KKK slogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the post, go to:\u00a0http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/msnbc-apologizes-for-irresponsible-reporting-on-romney-kkk-reference-64944\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Chris Matthews issued a deep felt apology on behalf of MSNBC over the network\u2019s reporting that the Romney campaign had adopted the slogan \u201cKeep America American;\u201d a slogan that was once used by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920\u2019s. Matthews, who was not involved in the story first reported from MSNBC that originated from a blog post, called the network\u2019s reporting \u201cirresponsible and incendiary.\u201d \u201cDuring the 11 AM hour on MSNBC we reported on a blog item that compared a phrase used by the Romney campaign to one used by the KKK in the 1920\u2019s,\u201d said Matthews. \u201cIt was irresponsible and incendiary of us to do this and showed an appalling lack of judgment. We apologize to the Romney campaign.\u201d The flare-up began when MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts read a post written by gay activist John Aravosis who writes for the liberal Americablog, that read, \u201cRomney\u2019s KKK slogan.\u201d To read the rest of the post, go to:\u00a0http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/msnbc-apologizes-for-irresponsible-reporting-on-romney-kkk-reference-64944\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MSNBC Apologies for \u2018Irresponsible\u2019 Reporting on Romney-KKK Reference - Paul Stanley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulstanley.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/msnbc-apologies-for-irresponsible-reporting-on-romney-kkk-reference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MSNBC Apologies for \u2018Irresponsible\u2019 Reporting on Romney-KKK Reference - Paul Stanley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MSNBC\u2019s Chris Matthews issued a deep felt apology on behalf of MSNBC over the network\u2019s reporting that the Romney campaign had adopted the slogan \u201cKeep America American;\u201d a slogan that was once used by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920\u2019s. 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