Carson King raised more than $1 million for an Iowa children's hospital, borne out of a request for beer money on national TV. But old racist tweets ended his relationship with the beer company that promised to match his fundraising
Anheuser-Busch announced it would no longer associate with King after he admitted posting two offensive tweets in 2012 when he was a 16-year-old high school student."Carson King had multiple social media posts that do not align with our values as a brand or as a company and we will have no further association with him," the company said in a statement to CNN.
"Some of the toughest decisions in journalism are about what to publish -- or not," Des Moines Register executive editor Carol Hunter wrote in a Tuesday statement. "The jokes were highly inappropriate and were public posts. Shouldn't that be acknowledged to all the people who had donated money to King's cause or were planning to do so?" Hunter wrote."The counter arguments: The tweets were posted seven years ago, when King was 16. And he was remorseful.
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