MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has made a tearful on-air apology to Mitt Romney after a segment aired which poked fun at the former Republican Party presidential candidate's adopted black grandson Kieran Romney.
Harris-Perry said the segment 'proceeded in a way that was offensive' and showed poor judgment.
'So without reservation or qualification, I apologise to the Romney family,' she said.
She also apologised for hurt caused to other interracial families.
Earlier she had taken to Twitter to express her regret over the segment, in which a panel of guests made comments about a photo of Romney with his nearly two-dozen grandchildren.
'As black child born into large white Mormon family I feel familiarity w/ Romney family pic & never meant to suggest otherwise,' Harris-Perry tweeted.
'I apologize [sic] to all families built on loving transracial adoptions who feel I degraded their lives or choices.'
In the offending segment, the MSNBC host invited her panel to come up with a caption for the Romney family photo.
One panellist, actor Pia Glenn, said 'one of these things is not like the other.'
Comedian Dean Obeidallah joked that it was representative of the Republican Party's lack of diversity.
'It really sums up the diversity of the Republican Party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person,' he said.
The segment was labelled 'despicable' by Sarah Palin.
'Leftist media hounds are not expressing an opinion with this attack; they are expressing a prejudice that would never be accepted if it came from anyone else but the lib[eral] media,' Ms Palin wrote on her Facebook page.
Romney is expected to comment on the issue on a Fox News segment today.
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