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02-29-2016, 05:18 AM
Boneheaded Oscars tweet from a beauty brand mistakes Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah
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As stars flooded the red carpet for the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, one beauty brand decided to capitalize on all the attention with a perfectly timed observation about Oprah Winfrey's tattoos.
The only problem: The star wasn't Oprah; the picture posted along with Total Beauty's tweet was actually of comedian Whoopi Goldberg.*
The fact that the**#OscarsSoWhite controversy and boycott means that the show's live audience is especially white this year only made the *mistake more stupendously dim-witted.
To make matters worse, the brand left the tweet up for nearly a full hour before finally realizing their mistake and removing it, giving the Twitter-verse plenty of time to pile on with mocking outrage.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/beauty-brand-mistakes-whoopi-goldberg-for-oprah-in-terrible-oscars-tweet/)
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As stars flooded the red carpet for the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, one beauty brand decided to capitalize on all the attention with a perfectly timed observation about Oprah Winfrey's tattoos.
The only problem: The star wasn't Oprah; the picture posted along with Total Beauty's tweet was actually of comedian Whoopi Goldberg.*
The fact that the**#OscarsSoWhite controversy and boycott means that the show's live audience is especially white this year only made the *mistake more stupendously dim-witted.
To make matters worse, the brand left the tweet up for nearly a full hour before finally realizing their mistake and removing it, giving the Twitter-verse plenty of time to pile on with mocking outrage.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/beauty-brand-mistakes-whoopi-goldberg-for-oprah-in-terrible-oscars-tweet/)
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