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A tweet insulting the president and his late grandmother has gotten KitchenAid in hot water.
During the presidential debates last night, someone posted a tweet using the official KitchenAid USA account that read: "Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president'."
KitchenAid took down the tweet as fast as possible. But it had already quickly spread after being sent to the company's 25,000 followers and including the hashtage #nbcpolitics, an account used by NBC News to tweet about the debate.
Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, passed away on November 2, 2008, just two days before her grandson was elected president. Obama made a reference to his grandmother at last night's debate, according to Mashable.
Cynthia Soledad, KitchenAid's senior director, has been active on Twitter this morning trying to clean up the damage.
In one tweet, she said that "I would like to personally apologize to President @BarackObama, his family and everyone on Twitter for the offensive tweet sent earlier... [Read more]
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