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NBC Memo: Don’t Call Steve King’s White-Supremacy Comments ‘Racist’

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“Be careful to avoid characterizing [King’s] remarks as racist,” reads the email to NBC News staffers.

Audrey McNamara
Audrey McNamara 

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