When the news coming out of the US is so grim even the presenter can’t get through it
This clip of US TV news anchor Rachel Maddow struggling to read the latest developments from the Trump administration went viral because, well, take a look for yourself.
Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to "tender age" shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 20, 2018
The clip has been watched nearly 3 million times online.
Rachel Maddow breaking down on live television is all of us. pic.twitter.com/KBa9ewcG48
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 20, 2018
Extraordinary stuff. When the news does this to an anchor… pic.twitter.com/YUledbgcYP
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) June 20, 2018
The presenter later apologised for what happened and people liked how she did it.
Ugh, I'm sorry.
If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.
What I was trying to do — when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything — was read this lede:
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
"Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
"Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the "tender age" shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
"Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air:https://t.co/2VBLTVxvQq
Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
Some people said this, which appears to be the go-to option now if you see anything on the news you disagree with.
wrong job..actress comes to mind..
— Mike Andrews (@mikepjba) June 20, 2018
Only if your mind is extremely small
— David Lambert (@Dlambert66) June 20, 2018
How real a real feeling human should respond.
— Richard Bartle (@BartleRichard) June 20, 2018