NBC apologizes to Bachmann over song
cnn.com
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NBC has apologized to Rep. Michele Bachmann after the house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" played an inappropriate song during her appearance on the show Monday, CNN confirmed Thursday. Bachmann received a letter Wednesday from Doug Vaughan, NBC's senior vice president for special programs and late night, that apologized for what happened, said Alice Stewart, the Republican presidential hopeful's spokeswoman.
"She accepted the apology," Stewart told CNN on Thursday.
Bachmann also spoke Wednesday to Fallon and had a "nice conversation," said Stewart, who described the late night host as "remorseful" and "a class act."
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She insisted the treatment she received through the song amounted to "sexism," and she added that it "wouldn't be tolerated if it was Michelle Obama and shouldn't be tolerated for a conservative woman, either."
Still, she said, "I'd love to go back again."
Some of Bachmann's ire was directed toward the drummer of Fallon's house band, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson.
"If that song had been played for Michelle Obama I have no doubt that NBC would've apologized to her and likely they could've fired the drummer or at least suspended him. None of that happened from NBC and this is clearly a form of the bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite," Bachmann said.
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That's exactly right! Don Imus was fired for saying "nappy-headed hos." Why isn't Ahmir Questlove Thompson fired for interracially attacking Michele Bachmann? (It's a rhetorical question. We all know the answer). -ng- |
