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KitchenAid is not a United Nations program to help people in faraway, impoverished places obtain designer kitchens.
Instead, it's a company that offers you "more ways to make it your way" in the kitchen.
How odd, then, that it should have inserted a rather blunt knife into tonight's presidential debate.
For the company's Twitter feed was adorned with this musing: "Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president'. #nbcpolitics."
The "gma" is not "Good Morning America" but grandma.
Who, then, might have been responsible for this remarkably unfunny attempt at funny?
I am grateful to Mashable for having identified the tweet before it was removed. However, KitchenAid did add a follow-up tweet that read: "Deepest apologies for an irresponsible tweet that is in no way a representation of the brand's opinion. #nbcpolitics
Corporate Twitter accounts have tended to fall into the hands of rebels of late.
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