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NBC Says ‘No Offense Was Intended’ by Monkey Commercial That Aired Right After Gabby Douglas Won Olympic Gold

Gabby Douglas Olympic monkey commercial

U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London. NBC said it meant "no offense" by a commercial featuring a monkey on gymnastics rings that aired right after Douglas clinched the gold. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

NBC said it meant “no offense” by a commercial involving a monkey on gymnastics rings that aired right after Gabby Douglas received her Olympic gold medal.

The commercial was an Olympic-themed ad for the upcoming NBC comedy “Animal Practice” and was specifically timed to run Thursday night after the women’s individual all-around gymnastics competition, the Associated Press reported. Just before the broadcast cut to commercial, NBC’s Bob Costas commented that Douglas — the first black woman to win the Olympic title — might serve as a role model for future generations.

“Much of America has fallen in love with Gabby Douglas,” Costas said. “Also safe to say that there are some young African-American girls out there who tonight are saying to themselves, `Hey, I’d like to try that, too.’”

NBC then went to the commercial featuring a small, grinning monkey on the rings. “Monkey” is considered a common slur against blacks.

“Gabby Douglas’ gold medal performance last night was an historic and inspiring achievement,” NBC Universal spokeswoman Liz Fischer said, according to the AP. “The spot promoting `Animal Practice,’ which has run three times previously, is one in a series with an Olympic theme, which have been scheduled for maximum exposure. Certainly no offense was intended.”

NBC has been hit with heavy criticism for its Olympics coverage, tape-delaying for hours some of the most popular events for its primetime programming.

As SB Nation observed: “Not NBC’s finest moment, certainly. But in their defense, they did have hours and hours to ensure that this would not happen. You know, because all of their primetime stuff airs in tape delay in every time zone. You may have heard about that.”

It’s also not the first time NBC has had trouble with an Olympics commercial this week: The AP noted it aired a “Today” show spot showing swimmer Missy Franklin with her first gold medal right before showing the actual race where she won it.

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  • CrazyRabbit
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:51am

    “Much of America has fallen in love with Gabby Douglas,” Costas said. “Also safe to say that there are some young African-American girls out there who tonight are saying to themselves, `Hey, I’d like to try that, too.’”
    Now replace this with a Fox news anchor saying after Missy Franklin won that there are some young white girls out there etc. Thats racist why isn’t the other? Because to liberals only conservatives and whites can be racist.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:05am

      Yes, the comments where definitely racist in nature. I would normally say that the commercial was not racist and for idiots to get over it BUT, this is NBC so it must be racist and it meets their own bar for being racist certainly.

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    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:05am

      If these young people inspire other young people to do their best and want to work for something, what difference does it make what race they are.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:31am

      Crazyrabbit is the only one who really got it!

      Thanks!

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:34am

      Whether or not intended, that was funny!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:37am

      Good point Rabbit. Why can’t Gabby inspire a white girl? Or Michael Phelps inspire a black kid? When I was a boy my faovorite baseball player was Lee May with the Reds. He played 1st base and so did I. I didn’t have to find a white first baseman to idolize.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:42am

      I am so happy for and proud of this wonderful young lady. It is ridiculous that we as a country are so divided and politically correct that her great achievement is diminished by a make believe scandal. Anyone with a brain knows this was not meant as a racial slur. But everyone also knows that if the Olympics were televised on FOX talking heads at NBC would be leading the charge of racism and demanding that heads roll. Sanity and common sense must be restored and restored quickly if our Republic is going to survive.
      Gabby Douglas you represented the United States will class and grace, well done!

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    • doomytram
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:45am

      I’ve watched about 5 min. of this Olympics so far, but from what I’ve seen the people love Gabby as much or more than they did Mary Lou Retton. So, NBC is a victim of it’s own PCness. The ridiculous race encompassing lil bigots get mad about everything. Like if a watermelon had been pictured in the background of a soap commercial that would be racist. This Monkey commercial is poor taste because of the PC leftist’s. People that make commericals work for NBC Universal and making that commercial is common sense to be non PC. Monkey’s make for good commericals.

      The ridiculous Costas is fool, because all young girls (white, yellow, blue, black, and brown) can admire what Gabby did. It’s Amazing how ridiculous the commie networks are… thanks to Odisastrousblamera’s group of PC leftist and his lapdog MSM.

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    • Harley2002
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:49am

      How about saying that she may inspire some young girl to try this. Leave race out of it.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:50am

      I just.got censored ….I had a post that included Al sharpton, and monkey in the same paragraph they took it down…who’s running this site? Rahm Emmanuel?

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    • MAX0O1
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:56am

      CRAZYRABBIT Loveit when someone hits the nail right on the head!!!!!!

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    • netmail
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:23am

      Let’s get real here. To immediately go from a black gymnast to a black monkey doing gymnastics is just STUPID. It’s dishonest to say “oh, I didn’t see the connection.” Everyone saw it….everyone thought it, whether they wanted to or not. NBC SUCKS.

       
    • Rick Steele
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:23am

      That show, Animal Practice, is going up against Modern Family at ABC. I give NBC about 2 weeks before they have to spank the monkey and ditch that show.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:28am

      These creations are meant to divide our society.

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    • Chromo200
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:29am

      Excellent comment. So little girls that are not African-American won’t get the same dreams and insperations form Gabby.

      IHMO Only racists bring out the issue of black and white. It looks like that is all they think about.

      Gabby showed with hard wrok, got good coaching, help form others, and more hard work and got successful. Something all of us can learn from.

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    • ColoradoDad
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:50am

      @NETMAIL – I agree with you on the fact that NBC sucks. But I disagree with you that everyone saw and thought that. I watched the broadcast that night, and was elated that Gabby Douglas won the gold. But when I saw that commercial the only thought that I was thinking was “well there is another show I won‘t watch on a network I can’t stand”. I guess if you see everything as “race” then you think everything has to do with race. Personally I do not give a crap what race a person is, it only matters what the content of their character is, period. There are plenty of good people out there of all races, and there are plenty of evil people out there…….of all races!

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    • drattastic
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:50am

      If NBC apologized then they must really think blacks are like monkeys . Why else would they apologize ? That’s obviously what is going on in their minds.

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    • henryKnox
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:11pm

      Funny that a few generations ago it was a challenge for young people to overcome racism. Now it is a challenge for young people to overcome the race industry that depends on holding them down by living in the past and yurning for their heydays of the 60′s. I hope young people stand up and say, get over it to thee race baiters.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:32pm

      It‘s unfortunate that Costas couldn’t just see her as an outstanding American girl who did a stellar job of representing our country instead of labeling her with the hyphen.

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    • Pilgrimsarbour
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:39pm

      Honestly, although I am aware of the monkey references to black people, that commercial would have gone right over my head as having been offensive. I would not have made the association, which gives us some insight about who actually dwells on these kinds of things.

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:41pm

      Going to kiss a monkey at the Chick-fil-A today.

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    • Catherine A.
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Oh, for heaven’s sake. Gabby herself said it was a black gymnast who inspired her, and it seems obvious there will be many young black girls who will be inspired by Gabby. She will inspire little white girls, too, but let’s face it — gymnastics is still a predominantly white sport. So it does matter that a young black woman has won the gold. So many white people accuse blacks of being overly-sensitive about race, but this time it looks to me like it’s the white people who are overly sensitive. Lighten up, and don‘t read things into Bob Costa’s remarks that aren’t there.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:00pm

      Catherine, speaking of lightening up…the monkey commercial was offensive to you too, or just the PC thought police. Keep in mind I haven’t bothered to see the commercial. I won’t watch the show, and I don’t watch modern family either… I watch very little TV, but find solace in a quirky dry show on comedy central called workalcoholics.

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    • glassmangcg1
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:53pm

      It had nothing absolutely no racism whatsoever .every day white people apologize to black people for being offended over finding racism where there is no racism whatsoever! When will you white’s stop kissing there ass over dumb **** like this and tell the NAACP to go to HELL .It’s always white people when white people did nothing how do you know maybe a white person ran the ad I think this racism **** is going to far and one day it will bite the world in the ASS .

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:37pm

      Because there were already successful white gymnast to inspire white girls to give it a try. Watching the first African-American girl to achieve this level of success, will inspire a lot of black kids who might not have otherwise considered gymnastics. It’s not racist because it’s an undeniable reality. Is it racist to say that Jackie Robinson or Jesse Owens was an inspiration to black youth?

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    • Realist4U
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:24pm

      I do not believe this to be purposeful racism. But, when you immerse yourself in a world where “everything” is about race, you may have “subliminally projected your real feelings without realizing it. Considering MSNBC’s obsession about race, I guess they have themselves to prove or disprove whether it was racist or not.

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Bwahahahahahaha!

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:54pm

      Hey Chet,

      Is it racist for Planned Parenthood to abort an unusually high percentage of black babies that will never get to be inspired by anyone or anything?

      I could have pestered someone else with that question, but you seem to be the authority around here on abortion.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:56pm

      HOW ABOUT DITH (damnit to hell) HOW about saying a ‘YOUNG GYMNAST who committed totally
      to her sport, even when it meant leaving her family for TWO years just won the Overall Personal Best GOLD’ ??? WTH (what the hell) is ANYONE talking about RACE for??! THIS is a precious child of GOD who shows many of us how good we can be if we will work, discipline ourselves. This adorable little girl, this GABBY DOUGLAS has been a totally wonderful competitor…as have the other girls of her team. They were amazing!! Encouraging and cheering each other on…working very hard under what must have been an amazing strain. I adore her!! I adore her smile and her SPIRIT… The AMERICAN SPIRIT is beautiful to behold. I’m so happy for this young girl that she can make a lot of $ for her family and have some sense of security for them. Wonderful CHILD of GOD. That’s all anyone needs to say, and everything I want to hear…how about you?

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    • blkold7
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:01pm

      Gonzo, I feel the same way, why did Bob Costa call out African American Girls only? I was inspired by Buck Buchanan of the Kansas City Chiefs back in 1963. I played Defencive Tackle when I played Organied Tackle Jr. Pro Football thru High School & always wanted to be close to good as Buck Buchanan, for I never thought for one minute anyone could match or proceed him. We of course are not of the same race, but to me, it didnot matter

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    • Flag10First
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:40pm

      I remember watching that segment and wondering at the time why she has to be inspiring African-American girls. She was born in America, Virginia Beach, VA. She is an American. But…didn’t think twice about the correlation between the racial slur and the commercial. When is too much politically correct BS enough? Didn’t even make the connection….but I must be racist anyway?? America needs to get over this pity party for anyone that isn‘t ’ideal’. What/Who is ideal?? It is a lame and ignorant argument.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:18pm

      No, Billy, it would racist for Planned Parenthood to deny to black patients the same treatment that they provide for white patients out of some belief that they know better than the patient herself what is best for her, or that she is not equally capable of choosing for herself.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:41pm

      .
      Here’s how it works.
      Olympics are in London.
      Commercials are in New York.
      Executive producer in London says, “Gabby wins, let’s run that.”
      So, they do, afterwords,
      Somebody on the phone from London says “break in 5, 4, 3, 2, ….
      Meanwhile, New York, some guy in the tape room looks at the log and says,
      “Break 12, we run spot #1355.”, he hears 3, 2, 1, and rolls it.

      You’re giving NBC way too much credit to associate the two. (or control it)

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    • listeninginVT
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:10pm

      I was hoping the clip included her performance…Seeing atheletes at their peak, doing what they love, is so powerful and inspiring to watch.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:14pm

      @CHET,

      OK, thanks, I knew you would be Johnny on the spot with an answer.

      Can I ask another question? Sure I can.

      Tell us all you know about Margaret Sanger, and why she founded Planned Parenthood in the first place.

      Thanks.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Therightsofbilly
      That’s not a question, it’s a command.
      1500 characters isn’t enough to tell you all I know about any subject, especially a person who has had whole books written about her, and anyway this is completely off-topic, so for the sake of brevity, I’ll just skip to the end of the story.
      She died. After that, she wasn’t running the place any more.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:06pm

      Well thanks for nothin Chet,

      I’ll surely remember not to issue you any commands in the future.

      So if anyone doesn’t already know what Chet declined to tell us, Google the following search words and read up.

      “Sanger in her own words”

      Then compare that info with current Planned Parenthood abortion statistics.

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    • teebubba
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:25pm

      Do not think for one minute that a producer at NBC isn’t placing its ads as part of their narrative. When the girl who set the world record in the 200meter breaststroke the event was immediately followed by an ad featuring her wherein they had inserted her new record time. Liberals in the media can only see people by some feature which defines them culturally and politically and are disinterested in individual achievement only as it meets their preconceived agenda.

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    • ConservativeNinja
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:32am

      As long as the media of any type, whether it is news, sports or any other makes comments such as these, we will always be a country of hyphenated Americans.

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    • brknhrt
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:32pm

      I am so sick of “the First African American” this and that. Really, are blacks handicapped in some way in SPORTS? I don’t think so.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 10:10pm

      How the hell is this offensive?
      Gabby looks nothing like a monkey. What the hell?

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  • LemonCreek
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:51am

    Maaa Maaaa Maaaa Monkey ?

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:21am

      .
      The thought police are alive and well.
      I would never assume that a commercial was timed to make a political statement.
      The networks are just not that efficient, and they certainly are politically correct.
      Some people see race in everything.

      All I heard was how great she was.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:41am

      We now have to take animal planet off the air

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    • inblack
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:33am

      LOL – I did notice this and knew the racist liberal media would get hung up about it.

      I also noticed a few other things.

      1) NBC repeating OVER and OVER about every nation having at least one female athlete.
      2) How “young girls” (they get all teary eyed when they say it) would now think about athletics.
      3) How title 9 (a govt dictate) was sooo wonderful.
      4) How Huffington Post who runs sexually titillating ads and articles constantly, ran the article worrying about inappropriate camera shots of the female beach volleyball athletes.

      The hypocrisy and racism of the left is relentless. They stereo-type every person as part of a group and they are so brainwashed in their own PC that they have become the sexist, racist, nationalists that they so ardently decry.

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  • DetritusScreener
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:51am

    Who in God’s name would say such a thing?!? Way to ruin a perfectly united, singular great moment for the Gabby Douglas and the United States. The ******** in this country have to drive a stake in the heart of everything.

    I think NBC sees everything through their race colored glasses and they have now even outed themselves. Their own guilty conscious creates its own despicable racist interpretations where there were none.

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    • VinnieSquawker
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:05am

      Come on. Do you really think NBC was being racist? Now monkey is a thought-policed term? Give me a break. People need to lighten up and stop promoting the hatred. Ask her if she is offended. I am sure she would laugh and say,”Why would I be?” What utter nonsense.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:20am

      It would never even occur to me to elate monkeys to Gabby or any other black person. It must be only a racist mind that would make a connection that doesn’t exist.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:37am

      They already did that with the African-american nonsense!

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    • TopFlightSecurity
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:54am

      You hit the nail on the head. Liberals see everything as race. I would guess that no one even complained, they thought oh no we need to issue a preemptive statement letting them know we are not racist. Well you just showed your hand, only someone who thinks in term of race would have made that connection.

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    • MAX0O1
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:00am

      WOW another great post

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:16am

      No one has even mentioned the fact that (unless I’m color blind) the scene before the monkey hanging was a white gymnast on the rings. A case of monkey see monkey do.
      I don’t know because I do not watch, did she preform on the rings?

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    • RLTW
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:54pm

      I just want to know how long it will take BHO to co-opte this young ladies success, and the truth is it’s not her victory because Gov built the roads she used to get to gymnastics practice.

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  • cliffchism
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:48am

    People just don’t want racism and bigotry to go away.

    When some network aired the mini-series “Holocaust”, I think in the 1970‘s or 80’s, they had just gotten to the point where Jews were being led to the gas chambers. When they went to commercial, the product was Easy-Off Oven Cleaner. Yeah. It was sick and it upset a lot of people. But, do you honestly believe that they did it on purpose? Give me a break…

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:50am

      The problem isn’t the commercial, or it’s placement. The problem is the agenda driven journalist making a racial incident out of it. Who was that? Who wrote this opinion and foisted it upon this poor girl’s magnificent performance. They should not be getting traction on this and should be reprimanded for using their platform in a thoughtless self-serving manner.

      Silversmith

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  • CapitalismCzar
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:48am

    Time to boycot NBC and monkeys.

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  • INTHEBROTHERHOOD
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:47am

    PLEASE…….everyone who watched it should be offended then, if that was the case……arent we ALL supossed to have a lil monkey in our ancestry? Cant just limit this thing to 1 young black olympian. We have a frickin black president for christ sake. Has everyone lost their minds? It was just a commercial.

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  • trackmaster
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:46am

    I refer to the PC Progressives and their dupes as “The Indignants.” They seem to look for anything and everything that displeases them. They love being indignant and trying to shame others for doing or saying the thing that brought about their indignation. Sorta like the Church Lady.

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  • woodyl1011fl
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:40am

    Hey, they are liberals in NY, a city of liberal madness, and their faith in evolution is strong so they are racists as race is an evolutionary concept, it is also mythology. So naturally they don’t think anything is amiss.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:57am

      I just got a call into my office from a very credible source within NBC, and he said the commercial placement was intentional!!…I want NBC to release all emails and phone calls and texts, regarding this incident!! Also, I want every racist slant discussed by NBC executives released covering the past 10 years!!

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  • yazoo
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:39am

    Oh they knew what they were doing and NBC must answer for this vicious and racist assault on er whatever her name is. We all know the degree of hell that would be unleashed were it FOX involved. So in light of how NBC would have handled this the following must be done for justice to be done. The head of NBC , the head of their sports division, the Program Director for this show, all of the announcers involved must go, and lastly blacks must be hired to fill all of these vacancies.

    Its a sad day at NBC. The 300 people who watch NBC may never recover.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:46am

      NBC said it meant “no offense” by a commercial involving a monkey on gymnastics rings that aired right after Gabby Douglas received her Olympic gold medal.

      Yeah, OK…….. Don’t believe you NBC.

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  • Will NV
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:38am

    Mrs. Obama is so proud of NBC, Nothing But Commies.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:37am

    Walking on egg shells is really getting old and this PC crap has destroyed this country.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:59am

      They ran a Nabisco cr*cker commercial after Phelps won the gold. It didn’t hurt my feelings.

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    • Pilgrimsarbour
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:42pm

      Made me laugh, Gonzo.

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  • crackerone
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:37am

    The elitist left hate black people and abuse animals. Imagine the uproar if Fox did this!

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  • vonkrogh1951
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:33am

    Can you imagine the noise from the left if Fox or GB tv had done this? I see no offense here but to be fair Bob Costas should be fired because he is a racist based on how the left looks at these things. Really people we need to get back to the economy and get the real racists out of the White House.

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    • MAX0O1
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:05am

      I AM SO enjoying these post today. AND THOUGT GABBY DOUGLAS was adorable
      even BEFORE she won the GOLD.

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:29am

    COME ON!!!! Who even thinks of stuff like that any more? Who except racist bigots would even have the slightest thought of there being a relationship between a commercial and someone just on tv? That is just pure racism to even associate monkeys with blacks these days and even worse to accuse someone else of doing it.
    This really makes me mad that people make these accusations, no matter who they are accusing

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:38am

      Obama will come out and say “If my daughters were gymnasts, they could have looked like that”!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:42am

      You beat me to it,…good post!

      All the race minded, race baiting media and politicians make sure we think about race as much as they do, which is all the time.

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  • ConservativeSteve
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:26am

    Gotta tell ya, I read the headline and thought ……. THIS IS TERRIBLE. Then I watched the clip and realized that I had been watching when that happened and it never dawned on me that I could even conceivably considered some sort of racial slur. People …… GROW UP!

    That being said, is Bob Costas taking on a ……. Larry King“ness”?

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:38am

      Gabby Douglas praised God, after her win, on NBC interviews, this was NBC‘s smackdown on Douglas’s God, comment, as the monkey spot doesn’t just reek of racism, but of evolution!!….NBC, the nationalist bully corporation!

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    • labec
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:38am

      The Continual Double Standard. It this wasn’t an Obama Media Matters Affiliate ….
      liberals would be in their Outrage Mode with demonstrations, parades, rallies,
      mob rule, chaos, conflict, turmoil and divide…splayed all over the His networks.

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  • Ritter
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:25am

    Back in 1987 when I had to take a manditory PC class in the Army I knew it was going to be trouble for the U.S.

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  • Freedombeliever
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:25am

    Good grief!!! I would have never considered showing that commercial to be even remotely “racist” – and believe me I would take any opportunity to knock NBC if I could!!Thanks, Obama for creating such an explosive atmosphere of racism in this country that people are just LOOKING for any possible excuse to cry racism. This “stretch” of an accusation just took it to a whole new level. BTW congrats to Gabby – she is one of the most amazing gymnasts I’ve ever seen – that girl can literally fly!

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  • DJOYCE125
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:23am

    I can see how this can be offending to people…..

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  • Conkuur
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:22am

    Thats how NBC really sees blacks thats why they made the correlation. I clearly saw it as just a commercial. NBC merely confirmed what many of us already knew. They see blacks as subhuman a tool to be used. Same ole slave master mentality. ::::Golfclap::: Well played NBC Well played

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:18am

    Who cares? Go away NBC

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:42am

      NBC has been making ALOT of gaffes lately.
      But who cares. I NEVER watch them.
      The water cooler at 30 Rock has rainbow koolaid—-THAT must be it. LMAO

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  • Josiah13
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:16am

    One has to be a real serious racist to even see a possible issue with this commercial. It is fun though to watch these idiots chase their tails.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:48am

      We might have found the ***** in their armor!
      These people are so ridiculous.
      The point that the so called racism had to be explained to those that are wondering what they are talking about speaks volumes.
      The ridiculous part is when people point out, it is the first African American to do this or that, now there is racism. Show me the linage maybe it’s from Jamaica or Haiti. I do not hear any one saying the first Russian American, or first Asian American, or how about Swiss American?
      How about Phelps what is his linage he’s absolutely a first.
      Race is not the factor, she is an American that metaled, and congratulations on the culmination from all the hard work to get to that point.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:57am

      Amazing
      I‘ve just been PC’d kind of ironic!
      Noun
      1.
      a crack, cleft, or fissure: a ***** in a wall.
      2.
      a narrow opening: a ***** between two buildings.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:12am

      maybe it’s
      maybe she’s: inadvertent error

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:15am

    “ in their defense they did have hours and hours to ensure this would not happen ” uhhhhh ok, then why didn’t they ? I don’t get why that is in their defense…….

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  • dissentnow
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:13am

    WOW……..black people finding racism where there is absolutely no racism whatsoever and being offended by it while disingenuous white liberals apologize to black people for being offended over finding racism where there is no racism whatsoever!
    Shocking!

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  • KINGRUDDY
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:06am

    Can we grow up!!
    This is offending to who?
    Wake up America and get your politically correct elbow out of your ASS!!!!

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    • henryKnox
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:16pm

      This administration has purposely set this country back decades simply for political purposes.

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:06am

    Geeezzzz….PC run wild.

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