DUMB MSM EUPHEMISM OF THE DAY

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 14, 2005 11:29 AM

I missed this one a few days ago, but it’s just too good (or rather, bad) to pass up:

CNN anchor Carol Lin referring to the two French teenagers of Tunisian descent whose death sparked the Paris riots as “African-American.”

Newsbusters has the video.

Cassandra’s Page and Jack Kelly at Irish Pennants chuckled over the boneheaded remark last week.

Beyond snort-worthy…

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Reader Larry G. writes:

I once saw one better than that – a description of the black Vulcan bridge officer on the old “Star Trek Voyager” TV show was once described in a review article as an “African-American Vulcan.”

That gets funnier the more you think about it.

La Shawn Barber cringes.

More reader feedback from Joseph L.:

During the last Olympics, one of the network airheads referred to black athletes as “African-Americans from all nations…”

Do they even hear themselves?

And Timothy L.:

Better than the Vulcan…

Jay Leno’s wife was attributed with the following variation on the African-American theme. Trying to articulate the difference between white Africans (those of European descent) and black Africans, the only descriptor she could come up with was African-American Africans.

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