Twitter erupts on ‘inarticulate and insensitive’ MSNBC anchor.
MSNBC anchor Brian Williams has sparked a national fury over his breaking-news announcement about the Nice, France, terrorist attacks in which he used the phrase “plowing over.”
The phrase irked because a truck driver identified as a French-Tunisian, 31, named Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhel, plowed into a group of Bastille Day celebrants, killing at least 84 and injuring 100 or so.
Specifically, when turning over the newscast to “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, Williams said: “We have just plowed over the normal-hour airtime of Chris Matthews tonight because of this confluence of breaking news.”
Twitter posters were quick to react.
One wrote, as Fox News found: “After huge truck crushes well over 100+ people in Nice, Brian Williams just said on air: ‘we have plowed over the 9pm hour. #NiceFrance.”
Another: “Brian Williams just now on MSNBC: ‘We have just plowed over the scheduled air time of [the next show].’”
Another: “Brian Williams using the word plow to pass over the broadcast. #NiceAttack.”
And yet one more: “Brian Williams just used the phrase ‘plow over’ on MSNBC are you serious right now.”
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