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This Week in Awkward Race-Related PR Gaffes

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There may be some misunderstanding there when she talked about the great white hope…. What she meant by it is they have a bright future. They’re bright lights within the party.

Mary Geiger, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., who last week called for a “great white hope” to defeat Barack Obama.

“You know, a hero who’ll ride in on a white horse. Er, I mean, uhm someone with a sterling record. I meant— look over there!,” Geiger didn’t add.

 

“We apologized, fixed the error and we are looking into how it happened,” said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman.

He said that because the company was still reviewing how the swap occurred he could not comment further.

CNN, relating Microsoft’s mediocre apology for its mediocre racist Photoshopping

“So tell those damn kids on the Internet to stop making fun of us.”


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