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Al Sharpton tweets out wrong photo to remember ‘Cookie Roberts’

By John Gage
Published September 18, 2019 7:30pm ET
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Al Sharpton tweets out wrong photo to remember ‘Cookie Roberts’
A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah. | (Bernard Schoenburg/The State Journal-Register via AP)

MSNBC host Al Sharpton deleted a tweet commemorating Cokie Roberts after her death, in which he misidentified her in photos he attached and misspelled her name.

“Saddened to hear the passing of legendary journalist Cookie Roberts,” Sharpton said in a Tuesday tweet. “Here is a Easter Sunday special we did in 2011. May she Rest In Peace.”

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