NEW: In an email I reviewed, NBC News standards sent guidance to staffers this morning that they shouldn't directly refer to Steve King's comments as racist. Instead they said reporters should say, "what many are calling racist’ or something like that."

NEW: In an email I reviewed, NBC News standards sent guidance to staffers this morning that they shouldn't directly refer to Steve King's comments as racist. Instead they said reporters should say, "what many are calling racist’ or something like that." https://t.co/Oc3aRBSWxg

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 15, 2019