As we’ve learned time and time again, Twitter can be a disaster for public individuals and their quick thoughts or opinions. Once it is posted, it is usually online forever in some form. The latest example is this now deleted Tweet by Carson Daly:
Now this is certainly not Carson Daly’s first run in with controversial comments. He had previously made some comments that many took as homophobic on his radio show regarding a Jet Blue flight incident in 2012. Daly apologized then and this time around, he’s removed the Tweet and attempted to clarify what he meant:
https://twitter.com/CarsonDaly/status/592815547424894976
Too little, too late? There were obviously many detractors on Twitter, questioning why Daly was injecting himself into the situation at all:
https://twitter.com/MissAngelaDavis/status/592806696004800512
Good to see Carson Daly take time from being painfully irrelevant to weigh in on what's happening in Baltimore.
— Your Tiny Journalist Friend. (@thewayoftheid) April 27, 2015
Good to see people like @realDonaldTrump and @CarsonDaly pull from their vast experiences dealing with oppression to weigh in on Baltimore.
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) April 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheNewThinker/status/592822281107288065
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/592821481576476672
https://twitter.com/faketitojohnsON/status/592811123805683712
So @CarsonDaly deleted this. Maybe he's writing one acknowledging the senseless death of #FreddieGray instead. pic.twitter.com/RLFX0wOsic
— April (@ReignOfApril) April 27, 2015
I’m sure there are those who support his sentiments too, but this sort of situation should serve as a reminder to people in the public eye — Stop and think before you Tweet. This won’t be something that we’ll be seeing on The Orange Room tomorrow morning, I’m sure.
(Via IB Times / Carson Daly)