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What If Fox News Instead of MSNBC Had Pulled This Cinco de Mayo Stunt?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/05/2014 4:46:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

¡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 staggering across the set in a sombrero while chugging from a pint bottle of tequila?

But it happened on MSNBC, so the PC police probably won't make a peep about it. At the today's transition from Way Too Early to Morning Joe, there was producer Louis Burgdorf with his Halloween-store sombrero and pint bottle. Way Too Early host Thomas Roberts encouraged Burgdorf "to drink the whole thing and eat the worm," meaning either it was mezcal not tequila or Roberts just doesn't know his south-of-the-border booze.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cincodemayo; fail; lamestreammedia; louisburgdorg; msnbc; politicalcorrectness; tequila
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1 posted on 05/05/2014 4:46:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

¡Ay caramba! Double-standard Cinco de Mayo ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/05/2014 4:47:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nobody watches MSNBC. Those who do don’t care.


3 posted on 05/05/2014 4:49:26 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If anybody watched PMSNBC, it would be a big deal, I suppose.

As it is, nobody noticed.


4 posted on 05/05/2014 4:49:31 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

More people heard about that stunt on Free Republic than saw it live.


5 posted on 05/05/2014 4:53:49 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cinco de Mayo is a phony “Hispanic” holiday institutionalized by the liberal media. It isn’t observed in Mexico.


6 posted on 05/05/2014 4:54:17 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm guessing this isn't an uncommon sight at that network. Gotta get through the day somehow.
7 posted on 05/05/2014 4:55:08 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" -- Phillipians 4:13)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t know why people make such a big deal about stinky tamales every May 5th.

Oh wait, never mind.....


8 posted on 05/05/2014 4:58:46 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: txrefugee

I find the holiday quite appropriate, and celebrate each year as an opportunity to collect out-of-date expired jars from the fridg of the white stuff, and shoving it all down the sink.


9 posted on 05/05/2014 5:00:39 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Roberts probably meant something else by “eat the worm”.


10 posted on 05/05/2014 5:13:27 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In other words, nobody saw it?

It’s not racism if they do it ?


11 posted on 05/05/2014 5:16:28 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: silent_jonny

Stink of the Mayonnaise Day??


12 posted on 05/05/2014 5:17:10 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Tennessee Nana; GeronL; Lazamataz
Bah! That was nothing, they should have had Jose Cuervo playing in the Song Rotation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySdRUWYJhsk

Well its Sunday morning

And the sun is shining in my

Eye that is open

And my head is spinning

Was the life of the party

I can't stop grinning

I had too much tequllia last night

Jose Cuervo

You are a friend of mine

I like to drink you with

A little salt and lime

Did I kiss all the cowboys

Did I shoot out the lights

Did I dance on the bar

Did I start any fights

Now wait a minute

Things don't look to familiar

Who is the cowboy whos sleeping beside me

Well he's awful cute

But how'd I get his shirt on

I had too much tequllia last night

Jose Cuervo

You are a friend of mine

I like to drink you with

A little salt and lime

Did I kiss all the cowboys

Did I shoot out the lights

Did I dance on the bar

Did I start any fights

All those little shooters

How I love to drink them down

Come on bartender lets have another round

Well the music is playing

And my spirits are high

Tomorrow might be painful

But tonight we're going to fly

Jose Cuervo

You are a friend of mine

I like to drink you with

A little salt and lime

Everytime we get together

I sure have a good time

You're my friend, you're the best

Mi amigo(Tequllia)

Jose Cuervo

You are a friend of mine

I like to drink you with

A little salt and lime

Did I kiss all the cowboys

Did I shoot out the lights

Did I dance on the bar

Did I start any fights

Jose Cuervo

You are a friend of mine

13 posted on 05/05/2014 5:19:02 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: txrefugee

The “liberal” left will celebrate any tradition other than American Judeo-Christian Western Cultural traditions.


14 posted on 05/05/2014 5:19:09 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: txrefugee
"Cinco de Mayo is a phony 'Hispanic' holiday institutionalized by the liberal media. It isn’t observed in Mexico."

FWIW, I learned that it is both truly an American and Mexican holiday, arising from an unlikely victory in 1862 against France in Puebla during the American Civil War.

Cinco de Mayo

Could you share a source to support it being a "phony 'Hispanic' holiday institutionalized by the liberal media"?

15 posted on 05/05/2014 5:19:56 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs
FWIW, I learned that it is both truly an American and Mexican holiday, arising from an unlikely victory in 1862 by Mexico against France in Puebla during the American Civil War (while the American Civil War was occurring).

(Small clarification).

16 posted on 05/05/2014 5:22:14 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Today is May Fifth, US National MEXICAN GO HOME DAY!


17 posted on 05/05/2014 5:24:51 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: treetopsandroofs
French Military Victories: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html
18 posted on 05/05/2014 5:26:10 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Promoted by Corona Beer!


19 posted on 05/05/2014 5:31:11 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“ju got to know that main....”....


20 posted on 05/05/2014 5:33:59 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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