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Send in the Clowns: On the MSNBC-Mitt Romney flap

  • By George Salamon
  • January 9, 2014
  • 0 Comment on Send in the Clowns: On the MSNBC-Mitt Romney flap

BY GEORGE SALAMON / During the last days of 2013, a controversy erupted on MSNBC when a panel of comedians on the Melissa Harris-Perry show poked fun at a photograph showing Mitt Romney’s adopted African-American grandson sitting on the former presidential candidate’s knee surrounded by the rest of his white family members.

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