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Don't blame NBC News for the Oprah tweet.

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Rob Archer
Jan 08, 2018
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This morning I heard a radio talk show host griping about "NBC News" tweeting an "endorsement" of Oprah Winfrey for president.

That is incorrect. It was NOT NBC News that tweeted it, it was NBC, the network.

The third-party live tweeter working for NBC during the telecast was wrong to not include context referencing Seth Meyer's joke. And the network was …

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