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KitchenAid apologies for dead grandma Obama debate Tweet
NBC News, by Martha C. White
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 10/4/2012 6:28:53 AM
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KitchenAid is famous for its mixers, but the brand learned the hard way about the perils of mixing personal political views with official company messaging on social media. On Thursday morning, parent company Whirlpool was in damage-control mode after an offensive message was sent from the company’s official Twitter account during last night’s presidential debate. “Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president',” the Tweet read, a response to a reference President Barack Obama made about his grandmother’s passing. Link repaired by staff
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Comments: Somebody's out of a job this morning.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 10/4/2012 6:39:55 AM (No. 8908820)
Whirlpool can expect a visit from the IRS, FBI, DEA, ATF and, worst of all, the Obamaphone Lady!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 10/4/2012 6:45:53 AM (No. 8908836)
Great tweet!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 10/4/2012 6:45:55 AM (No. 8908837)
I love my KitchenAid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rael, 10/4/2012 6:46:17 AM (No. 8908841)
Love their appliances. Time to buy more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pomom, 10/4/2012 6:51:40 AM (No. 8908850)
Lovin' some KitchenAid this morning.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
killerbee, 10/4/2012 6:53:56 AM (No. 8908857)
Unprofessional. Someone is indeed out of a job. Not worth it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
yo-yo, 10/4/2012 7:01:31 AM (No. 8908885)
Are you kidding? Why would she worry? I mean, look how well 0bama has taken care of his hut-dwelling brother!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Feebie, 10/4/2012 7:10:09 AM (No. 8908920)
I thought the tweet was out of line. I don't like this President, but it was clearly out of line.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 10/4/2012 7:10:31 AM (No. 8908921)
I bet their stock goes up and whoever made that tweet will get a raise.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 10/4/2012 7:12:39 AM (No. 8908931)
The world seems a little more in sync this morning. An article about KitchenAid written by none other than Martha White just proves it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kanphil, 10/4/2012 7:14:16 AM (No. 8908934)
If I were a betting man, I would put my money on #9. Not a nice tweet, but Obama is not a nice man. He has made millions of Americans miserable.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Iconoclast, 10/4/2012 7:15:02 AM (No. 8908936)
I'm w/ #8. Tweet was below the belt and tasteless.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
J Wayne, 10/4/2012 7:17:08 AM (No. 8908947)
Unprofessional and stupid. On a completely unrelated note, Zero annoys me, and I just remembered that I need to buy the wife that mixer she's always wanted.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 10/4/2012 7:20:29 AM (No. 8908969)
I thought it was funny as heck. Why would anyone get bent out of shape about some innocent humor? 0bama doesn't seem to have any problem digging her up to use as a campaign prop, so why should we get all offended on his behalf?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lonestarm3, 10/4/2012 7:22:33 AM (No. 8908975)
Recently replaced our 36 year old KitchenAid dishwasher with a new KitchenAid dishwasher.
The old one still worked ok, but was beginning to get too noisy.
Obama has been too noisy all along and doesn't work. Time to replace him too.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msctex1, 10/4/2012 7:22:38 AM (No. 8908977)
Had a Dem said it, it would be ignored. So who cares? These people are far too far gone to notice our staying above such things, no matter what we like to think. Is it the right thing to do? Yes. Does it matter in this environment? Not a bit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 10/4/2012 7:28:41 AM (No. 8909009)
Mitt didn't need any help from KitchenAid. He was doing fine by himself putting Barry throught the wringer and hanging him out to dry.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 10/4/2012 7:28:51 AM (No. 8909011)
Wanna bet re: long term damage?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 10/4/2012 7:40:42 AM (No. 8909050)
I'd much rather NBC News write articles about what an abysmal job Zerobama did last night. I wonder why they didn't think to do that?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 10/4/2012 8:10:27 AM (No. 8909143)
Heck, they didn't even tell the whole story: Grandma didn't just die, Barry had her put down in a preview if his ObamaCare Death Panels. He wasn't about to risk having the old white lady revived to be an embarrasment to him in front of his peeps.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 10/4/2012 8:25:22 AM (No. 8909183)
I knew I liked KitchenAid stuff for some reason!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared, 10/4/2012 8:32:29 AM (No. 8909202)
Companies with social networking accounts are playing with fire. You're sure to pi*s off some potential customers.
Note to Kitchen Aid: get rid of the tweeter AND the person who suggested the Twitter idea.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DARling, 10/4/2012 12:06:31 PM (No. 8909288)
This was a headline on the MSN page this morning. Never, "Obama Got His Butt Whupped Last Night." Now it is, "More New Yorkers Eating at Home Than Eating Out."
There was a line, two or three down from headline, not in bold letters, that "Romney Helps His Cause in First Debate." Sounds a bit underwhelming.
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