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Kayak, a company that has run commercials on "All-American Muslim" — the reality series on the TLC cable channel that has become a source of controversy in the debate over Muslims in the United States — defended its decision to stop advertising on the show in the future, even as it admitted, "we handled this poorly."
In issuing that mea culpa via a corporate blog post, Robert Birge, the chief marketing officer at Kayak, the travel Web site, laid a good deal of the blame for the matter at the feet of TLC, part of Discovery Communications. He complained that the channel "was not upfront with us about the nature of the show" and "went out of their way to pick a fight on this, and they didn't let us know their intentions."
"Sadly, TLC is now enjoying the attention from this controversy," Mr. Birge wrote.