{"id":32536,"date":"2020-10-19T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32536"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:22:04","slug":"cbc-comedy-account-tweets-racist-joke-about-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32536","title":{"rendered":"CBC &#8216;comedy&#8217; account tweets racist joke about Trump supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>It remains to be seen whether the &#8220;comedy&#8221; program will keep this tweet up, or if it will quietly delete it as they have done so in the past.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->The Post Millennial<\/p>\n<p>The CBC program &#8220;22 Minutes,&#8221; came under fire on Saturday evening when it Tweeted a seemingly racist joke about black Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=tpostmillennial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1317549946816614400&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fcbc-comedy-account-tweets-racist-joke-about-trump-supporters&amp;siteScreenName=TPostMillennial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1317549946816614400\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CBC is the state funded broadcaster, meaning the content produced is entirely paid for by taxpayers. This is not the first time this program has attacked conservatives as just one month ago, the account made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cbc-program-makes-fun-of-erin-otoole-for-having-covid-19\">fun<\/a>\u00a0of CPC Leader Erin O&#8217;Toole for contracting COVID. That tweet was then deleted.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether the &#8220;comedy&#8221; program will keep this tweet up, or if it will quietly delete it as they have done so in the past.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:3MAxzJNL7MMJ:https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cbc-comedy-account-tweets-racist-joke-about-trump-supporters\/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=opera\">https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:3MAxzJNL7MMJ:https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/cbc-comedy-account-tweets-racist-joke-about-trump-supporters\/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=opera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It remains to be seen whether the &#8220;comedy&#8221; program will keep this tweet up, or if it will quietly delete it as they have done so in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}