Do you think that Keith O will dare name Tweety one of the "worst people in the world"?

[WI_DEM]

after Tweets "I fogot he was black for an hour" line? You can bet that if somebody on FAUX said that it would be a nominee for worst person. I wonder if Tweety will apologize?

[Dennis Donovan]

1. This faux-controversy has been put to rest by his comments on Maddow later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WE7tD7aaFw

[WI_DEM]

3. Thanks.

[HipChick]

4. I don't think so..

It's not the first time he had insert foot disease..he mentioned about not knowing that his kids teacher s or friends were black..I don't even know why that would matter..Obama is African-American now? How did he lose his half-white side? Tweety still stuck in a one drop mentality..

[Raineyb]

11. Speak for yourself.

Still damn offensive no matter how he backtracks it.

[Hekate]

2. No, because he's not. Tweety has already apologized, explained, and will no doubt continue ...

... with the public mea culpas for awhile. He suffers from foot-in-mouth disease, but he's not a racist.

At Chris Matthews' age, there's no cure for foot-in-mouth disease. I was going, "Oh Tweety, just shut up," as he fumbled with the concept, even though I understood what he was trying to say.

I think a lot of us look at Barack Obama, we know very well he's a black man, but what we SEE is the President of the United States. Our President. The office fits him like a well-tailored suit.

Obama's blackness/ mixed-race heritage/ etc. isn't a "so-what"-- it's who he is, and he's given it considerable thought -- in public, in books written by himself -- which invites discourse rather than shutting it down.

But you know what Tweety's real "crime" was? (and is--because he'll do it again) Talking about an individual person's race like that is socially unacceptable. It's not a slur, it's not racism -- we are just not supposed to talk about it and we are supposed to pretend that we do not notice what is one of the most influential characteristics a person is born with, in terms of their past, present and future.

"Transcend"? "Post-racial"? Not hardly.

That's what candidate Obama's Jeremiah Wright speech was about. The things we (generic "we") say when we think only our friends are listening. The things we think inside our heads, but pretend we do not. The things that we really should discuss in a civil manner. In public.

Hekate

[Ian David]

5. If Keith was willing to name his fellow co-workers as Worst Person...

... then Joe Scumborough would be featured almost as often as Captain Phonesex.

Keith has at least once named himself Worst Person for something he's said wrong, but I don't recall him ever naming anyone else at MS-NBC.

[cali]

6. No. because tweety doesn't come close to meeting that standard.

[MadBadger]

7. No, he doesnt do that. He doesnt attack his colleagues.

[Berry Cool]

9. Damn straight he doesn't.

He even waited to attack Tucker Carlson until Tucker left MSNBC.

But really, I think he understands what Tweety said last night was terribly inept, but not meant the way he made it sound.

[MadBadger]

12. He did the same thing with Imus. He waited until he slammed him.

[LiberalFighter]

8. The best thing to do and appear fair is for Olbmerman to invite

Tweety on to apologize for being stupid.

[Johonny]

13. Tweety has his own show

[rcrush]

10. Only if MSNBC tells him to.