An MSNBC staff member responsible for its official Twitter account was fired after an incendiary tweet about "right wing" conservatives caused a swarm of outrage.
The tweet read: "Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new #Cheerios ad w/ biracial family."
The tweet suggested conservatives would "hate" seeing the biracial familly appearing on Cheerios' new commerical. Soon, the Republican National Committee urged viewers to boycott MSNBC while demanding an apology from the network.
Later, the network's executive editor Richard Wolffe issued an apogloy and the tweet was deleted. The person responsible for the tweet was fired.
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