MSNBC Pulls "Inappropriate" Michelle Obama "Hardball" Ad Depicting Silhouetted Female Dancers (VIDEO)

MSNBC ran an ad for "Hardball" Thursday morning teasing a segment on Michelle Obama's image makeover. The ad featured background artwork of female silhouetted dancers while the phrase, "HER NEW OUTLOOK?" was displayed on the screen. When contacted, an MSNBC representative said the ad was pulled after only running "once or twice" because it was deemed "inappropriate." The full statement:

The artwork should not have been used, it was inappropriate. We pulled the spot this morning and it was re-done without those images.

Watch the "inappropriate" ad below ("inappropriate" artwork slo-mo'ed at end if you miss it):

From MSNBC, 6/19

Comments

[BiGMiG]

Uh... OK.

On the last silhouette: baby got back!

[4wehttam]

Chris is just dying to get Keith's ratings, how very sad for him.

[chi]

WTF was that? This campaign is becoming surreal.

[MariaHopeful]

Cindy McCain hosted the view and it was no big deal. Michelle hosted the view and she did it because she is trying to makeover her image. Fair and balanced coverage? Of course Michelle, being black, is less than. She is a "baby mama", and video vixen, she is unpatriotic as how dare she opens her mouth to talk about the peculiar problems that Black People have to deal with. Of course, we don't hear a peep from all the women who were up in arms about how the media treated the white Hillary Clinton.

[NotMcCain]

Cindy McCain was a homewrecker. Her affair with McCain was while he was married and led to McCain dumping his wife and children and taking up with Cindy.

And yet, the media is very mum about this, instead portraying her as a coolly fashionable, wealthy helpmeet.

Can't Chris make some "hot" video about a 40 year old man who leaves his wife for a rich 28 year old blonde?

Why does the media keep picking on Michelle who, by all accounts, is exactly what she seems--an intelligent and attractive woman, successful lawyer, and loving wife and mother?

[washington31]

LMAO!!!!!

[HAYMONBRANDON]

i agree 100%

[kasv]

Amen.

[conniedogs]

Well said Maria!

[tel8034]

Why is it that Barack and Michelle are ALWAYS required to pay the BLACK TAX?

It seems that for them to be accepted, they MUST be perfect, work harder, and never make a verbal gaffe.

The bar has been set way low for John and Cindy, and I am sad to say it, but it seems that it all has to do with race.

If Barack had cheated on his disabled wife, married his mistress who was addicted to stolen prescription drugs and who has no record of going to rehab for the addiction, had refused to allow detailed scrutiny of his medical records (physical and mental), had been involved in the Keating 5 scandal and had refused to disclose the details of his family income, he never would have made it to Iowa much less become the Democratic nominee.

But everyone is expecting him to pay the BLACK TAX 24/7

The MSM with ads like this one doesn't help either.

[sandtats]

And you left out called his wife the "C" word and a "trollop," in public.
Seems Johnny believe it's Cindy who's the one more in need of a "makeover."

Laughed heartily, replied, "Good question!!!" when a female questioner, at one of his townhalls asked, "How are we going to beat the b*tch in Nov?"

Replied when asked why Ch*lsea C was "so ugly" with, "because Janet Reno is her father.

Can you imagine if it had been Michelle who was a convicted drug stealing addict? If Barack had said but ONE of those things mentioned? Just ONE???

[jackieblu23]

So true, Amen! McCains checkered Navy record s/b made public too. Last in his class, and he crashed 5 planes. Cindy keeps her money seperate to make sure his first real "army wife" & kids he dumped, w/n get anything. The McCain's are a mess. I don't like Bush to say the least, but, Laura seems to have some class, she even sent Michelle a note that she understood that she miss-spoke. Too bad Laura married the village idiot!

[suppressed08news]

Because that is the way ithas always been. To some Blacks are still 3/5 human, so in order to be 1/2 or a whole person, Black have to work super hard, be extrodinarily exceptional in order to to even get to the point of ay type of acceptance in American Society and even then their successes are still extremely marginalized and their failure/faults over exagerated!

[AggravationKills]

MariaHopeful-

I don't like how the media treated Hillary, as a woman. Im here, voting for Obama, and I dont like how theyre treating Mrs. Obama AT ALL! Ok? Just wanted to let you know were here.

[trackpad]

I think it should have been pulled for the string of horrible typographic decisions evidenced in "Her New Outlook".

[olderdem]

When is it appropriate for the MSM to start talking about Cindy's previous drug addiction? I'm waiting for the all-American born rich girl that needed drugs to deal with her "pain" to explain how she can relate to ordinary Americans.

[robXdion]

Can you imagine if Michelle Obama had stolen prescription drugs and got hooked on them? Obama wouldn't have made it to Super Tuesday.

[kasv]

Amen again.

[conniedogs]

LOL.........so true

[Cat82]

so true! he would still be in chicago!

[cpscscs]

I don't understand why this is objectionable.

[magggs]

Because it is sexually suggestive and inappropriate for a potential first lady? Think you've ever seen an illustration like that about Cindy McCain? Laura Bush? Elizabeth Edwards?Tipper Gore?

[LMorland]

Exactly. Very well put.

[esgabel]

Really I don't see it as objectionable--rather inappropriate for a news show to use images of go-go dancers when discussing a possible future first lady! The art work crossed the line into the Tabloid sphere--just a hair tacky! Not major but tacky!

[Ministerbruce]

You don't understand and I can't explain it to YOU.

Michelle Obama is having, or is being given a make over id pure network crap, she not done over, or changed anything. The Networks picked this fraise, "Make Over," because nine out ten people having them done are women, not always but most of the time,

Nothing has changed about Michelle Obama, she is being helped with responce, by the networks and the nut cases in America, from the Left and the Right.

This General Election and the networks choosing “Make Over” is no accident, nor is it appropriate. But they had to have something to call her getting a staff for the continuing and coming deluge of negative attacks, increasing over her every move and statement, as the General draws near… can you say OBSESSING.

Every word is she on the cover of US weekly and she’s On the View and because she gave “fist bump”… Willie G on Morning Joe kept calling it a Terrorist Fist Bump… Willie really thinks that’s a FUNNY and harmless statement.

And to have the disrespect to air silhouetted females figures, as you talk about Michelle, was low and never, ever should have been put on the air of MSNBC and Chris Matthews has a lot of apologizing to do, to Michelle and to woman in general.

Can you imagine doing the same to Laura Bush, it show abject lack of respect, disregard for women and black women as a whole.

[conniedogs]

Amen and Amen

[mairs]

They're using the phrase "makeover" because that's what helped sink Gore. He changed his clothing style and everyone treated him with derision because the MSM played it up as if it meant something that actually mattered. At this point in the campaign the MSM is poking for the Obamas' weak spots. If this doesn't work they'll drop it and try something else.

[MrZrule]

Michelle is made into an object. She is being objectified. It's about paying attention to the insides not the outsides.

It's about not looking at the content of character.

[robXdion]

Someone caught on to the obviousness of this. Do they have Al Bundy's "No Ma'am" Club at MSNBC??? And to have the graphic on Hardball with Matthews' sexist reputation for obsessing over public female's appearance is ridiculous.

[lisaluv]

I agree that Chris is an idiot lol but i'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on whether he had a hand in that promo. Other than Keith O., they're a bunch of republican lovin kiss-ups who i don't even take seriously and BTW, there's not a thing wrong with Michelle O!