'We love the Hispanic community. Yo hablo español,' NBC News President Deborah Turness said at a contentious meeting with Latino House members.
Hispanic lawmakers hoped a meeting with top executives from MSNBC and NBC News Wednesday would smooth over hard feelings from Donald Trump’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” Instead, it had the opposite effect.
NBC News President Deborah Turness committed a major blunder — as far as the Hispanic lawmakers were concerned — when she described undocumented immigrants as “illegals," a term that many in the Latino community find highly offensive.
Turness was describing NBC's integration with their Spanish-language network Telemundo, which included coverage of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. and his interaction with a young girl who was afraid her parents would be deported because they’re “illegals.”
“I’m going to stop you right there. We use the term undocumented immigrants,” Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) interrupted.
Turness apologized.
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3 comments:
Progressives define nothing they mouth outlined rhetoric
of course she apologized. that's what liberals do
Liberals always apologize when they accidently speak the truth. Look at Martin O'Malley for instance, how pathetic is it to apologize for saying "All lives matter? Its like apologizing for saying "Obama is the worst president in the history of our country".
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