MSNBC Misspells Alvin Greene’s Name While Airing His Speech On Poor Education

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by Jon Bershad | 9:45 pm, July 19th, 2010

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Oh, bitter, bitter irony. We all make mistakes. Believe me, as someone who routinely has commenters pointing out typos under my posts, I know that better than anyone. But there’s something so wonderfully hilarious about seeing someone make a mistake at the most perfectly wrong time. Case in point; a few minutes ago, Countdown aired parts of senatorial candidate, media sensation, and bobblehead inspiration Alvin Greene’s first big public speech. Right at the point where Greene was speaking about his state of South Carolina’s poor educational record, a chyron appeared with his name. Which they misspelled. Oops.

The rest of the segment (which was presented by Lawrence O’Donnell who was there covering for a vacationing Keith Olbermann, preparing for his new show, and maybe saying hi to his future executive producer) was spent comparing Greene to his opponent, the incumbent Republican Jim DeMint. The comparison was definitely favorable to Greene with O’Donnell saying that the challenger’s slogan need only be “Better than DeMint.” That was very nice of the folks at Countdown to say but, if they really wanted to help Greene, they probably should have double checked the spelling of name.

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notsofast

MSNBC couldn’t spell BMW.
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

That’s horrrrrible .
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Keep Contesssssa away from the graphics department .
http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

The extra E is for extra…
http://libertyinprogress.blogspot.com/ ProgLib

Wow, what an outrage… and yet, even with that extra “E”, his name still sounds the same.

At least they can spell “education”, unlike some other networks…

http://youtu.be/r4KnawqvugU
MichelleF

Those racists. NO way they would’ve misspelled it if he were white!!
Snipzor

Well it’s not like they hosted a poll about climate change that had more than 100% of respondents (http://tinyurl.com/ycrn3yv). And a fun time was had by all.
ImNotBlue

Snipzor says:
July 19, 2010 at 10:40 pm

Wasn’t there a reasonable answer for that graphic? The “Very Likely” and the “Very Unlikely” were unique numbers, but the “Somewhat Likely” also included people who were “Very Likely,” if I remember correctly.

Either way… “oops.” And we move on.
notsofast

Snipzor said:
Well it’s not like they hosted a poll about climate change that had more than 100% of respondents (http://tinyurl.com/ycrn3yv). And a fun time was had by all.

And that’s about as believable as climate change is.
notsofast

It was just another example of MSNBC’s racism.
Some_Dude

This was an elaborate accident for a television news show – that typo had to have passed through more than a few hands and eyes before making its way onto the graphics. And in this context, awfully ironic.
Some_Dude

notsofast said:
It was just another example of MSNBC’s racism.

Racism? You’re being awfully apoplectic about a spelling mistake.
JimBob

O’Donnell getting his own show on MSNBC!!! Well, there WAS a show called “THE GONG SHOW” some years ago that lasted a year or two!
Can you just imagine HOW BAD The O’Donnell show IS going to be? The guy has the personality of a snake. He makes Bathtub Boy look Congenial!
Maybe they can format it like the ED Show! What a Winner that one is!
KO’s EP going over to NoEars O’Donnell!! WOW! I can’t wait !
MSNBC has definetly had some WINNERS over the years.
notsofast

Some_Dude said:
Racism? You’re being awfully apoplectic about a spelling mistake.

No, just telling the truth.
Pablo

JimBob said:
Can you just imagine HOW BAD The O’Donnell show IS going to be?

So bad it’s good, no doubt. I see lots of O’Donnell clips going viral.
notsofast

Pablo said:
So bad it’s good, no doubt. I see lots of O’Donnell clips going viral.

True.

It will be like when people tuned into see Jack Paar; not for his guests but to see him meltdown on live TV.
RTB

To MSNBC……
Ebonics, right?
writer

Alvin is the best and brightest the Democrats have to offer.
jrcmi

“. . . a chyron appeared with his name. Which they misspelled. Oops.”

Jon; Chyron is a proper noun. You should’ve capitalized it. Oops.

I’ll excuse MSNBC – and you, Jon! – for inadvertent errors. I’ll even excuse Fox – to an extent.

From: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200902110016

“Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research — typo and all

“SUMMARY: In purporting to ‘take a look back’ at how the economic recovery plan ‘grew, and grew, and grew,’ Fox News’ Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods — all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release. “