MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Had An Offensive Cinco De Mayo Bit, Too (VIDEO)

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MSNBC has apologized in a statement and on-air for the “ill-advised” Cinco de Mayo segment that it aired on “Way Too Early” Monday, but a similar bit later that day with the same producer on the network’s main morning show, “Morning Joe,” has gone unnoticed.

Louis Burgdorf, the producer for both shows, brought back the sombrero, maraca, and tequila he used on “Way Too Early” for the sendoff at the end of “Morning Joe.”

With the “Tequila Song” playing in the background, Burgdorf took a tequila shot, after co-host Mika Brzezinski took a whiff.

“Way Too Early” host Thomas Roberts, who was also on the Morning Joe set at that point, then remarked that “Louis smells like a gutter in Tijuana.”

MSNBC did not respond to TPM’s request for comment on the “Morning Joe” Cinco de Mayo bit.

In the earlier segment on “Way Too Early,” Burgdorf danced around wearing a sombrero with tequila and a maraca. The first segment was longer than the “Morning Joe” bit and included Roberts’ reciting some of the history behind the holiday. After the network issued an apologetic statement on Tuesday, both men apologized on air Wednesday morning:

“On Monday, Cinco De Mayo, ‘Way Too Early’ made sarcastic references to the way some Americans celebrate the holiday. It was not our intention to be disrespectful and we sincerely apologize for the ill-advised references,” MSNBC said in the statement.

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  1. Same puerile producer? Well, duh!

  2. OMG

    Evil Homer strikes again with his maracas.

  3. So, why are they making fun of and showering ridicule upon Mexicans and Hispanics?

    Do they take drinks on TV and insult the Irish for St. Patrick’s Day?

  4. How interesting a vestigial chat show blows the Dia de Los Muertes coverage…The program’s Mexican staffers and producers must be so humiliated.

  5. We’re frequently asked to cut the cable news/talk programs some slack because they have the 24/7 schedule and run out of news to cover. Aljazeera and BBC schedule news and feature/discussion programs and never have that problem. MSNBC couldn’t be bothered last night to even run a banner at the bottom of the screen to inform us of results in important primaries. We don’t need comic relief, we need constructive commentary on the news, as well as news as it is happening.

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