David Beckham

CNN suspends Roland Martin for Super Bowl tweets

Huffington Post and SDGLN Staff Reports
February 8th, 2012

(Editor's note: This article was originally published on The Huffington Post. SDGLN is a content-sharing partner with both GLAAD and HuffPost's Gay Voices.)

CNN announced Wednesday that it is suspending Roland Martin in the wake of the pundit's controversial Super Bowl tweets.

ACTION ALERT: Advocates of anti-gay violence have no place at CNN or Time Warner

Aaron McQuade - Director of News and Field Media, GLAAD
February 6th, 2012

(This post was originally published at GLAAD Blog.)

Following retailer H&M's Super Bowl commercial featuring soccer player David Beckham, CNN's Roland Martin tweeted to almost 95,000 followers:

"If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl"

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