Salon.com > kitchenaid http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 18:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 KitchenAid insults Obama’s grandma http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/kitchenaid_insults_obamas_grandma/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/kitchenaid_insults_obamas_grandma/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:02:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13030440 Someone from KitchenAid's Twitter account tweeted an exceptionally tasteless "joke" about President Barack Obama's deceased grandmother (who passed away shortly before he took office) during last night's presidential debate: "Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president' #nbcpolitics"

The tweet was deleted within minutes, but not before users caught on and the media picked it up. Almost 20 hours later, KitchenAid is still cleaning up the mess. Cynthia Soledad, KitchenAid's senior director of marketing, told CNN:

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