NBC Realizes That Trump Immigration Ad Is Super Racist Only After Airing It During Primetime

If you are at all familiar with the racist immigration-themed ad that President Trump’s campaign released last week, you are probably aware that it is extremely racist. The video, which Trump himself tweeted out last week, was covered by CNN and other sites, including Splinter. CNN also refused to run the ad on its network, but there was still one network that stepped in to sweep up that yummy racial hatred-money: NBC, which aired the ad during Sunday Night Football, a program watched by millions and millions of people. (MSNBC had also been airing the ad until this morning, according to CNN.) Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted on Friday that the campaign spent $1.5 million on airtime for the ad.

However, after everyone yelled at them, NBC reversed course on Monday, with a network spokesperson telling CNN in a statement: “After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible.”

The problem with the ad is not that it is “insensitive.” The problem is that it is deeply racist. I’m also not sure how much further review was needed to recognize the nature of the ad, unless the following things happened: 1) Literally only one single person was involved in selling the airtime to the Trump campaign, and 2) That person was, despite working for a news organization, somehow blissfully unaware of the content of the ad, which they still allowed to run on their network.