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The “mistakes” are adding up: On May 15 of last year, the Roswell Beacon in Georgia ran a cover photo showing President Barack Obama in a gun’s crosshairs. Early this month, Fox ran a photo of a rifle situated as if taking aim at Obama, followed two weeks ago by an odd item at the Washington Times Web site: the conservative publication used a photo of Obama’s daughters to illustrate a story about Chicago schoolchildren who’ve been murdered.
Now there’s another case: A classified ad running in a Pennsylvania paper linked Obama with assassinated presidents. Yesterday the paper ran an apology for the “mistake”:
An errant classified “personal” ad which appeared in Thursday’s Times Observer has drawn the attention of law enforcement officials.
A person from Warren placed the ad, which apparently alludes to the wish that President Obama meet an untimely end by linking him with four assassinated presidents. The ad representative didn’t make the connection among the four other presidents mentioned and mistakenly allowed the ad to run.
Upon realizing the mistake early Thursday morning, the ad was immediately discontinued and the identity of the person who placed the ad was turned over to Warren City Police as per newspaper policy. The local police department forwarded the information to federal authorities, as per department policy.
The Times Observer apologizes for the oversight.
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Comment posted May 30, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
Remember all the times us liberals made repeated references to killing Bush within the first year of his first term?
Oh, wait a second. We didn’t.
Comment posted May 31, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
I’m convinced that these are neither “mistakes” nor are they “accidental.”
Remember when high school students who made disparaging references to Bush II on their freshman year art projects were suddenly visited by TLA Agencies? Why aren’t these incidents given the same amount of concern?
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[...] Coincidence? Another paper links Obama and violence The “mistakes” are adding up: On May 15 of last year, the Roswell Beacon in Georgia ran a cover photo showing President Barack Obama in a gun’s crosshairs. Early this month, Fox ran a photo of a rifle situated as if taking aim at Obama, followed two weeks ago by an odd item at the Washington Times Web site: the conservative publication used a photo of Obama’s daughters to illustrate a story about Chicago schoolchildren who’ve been murdered. Minnesota Independent [...]
Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Hmmm…
Remember all the times us liberals made repeated references to killing Bush within the first year of his first term?
Oh, wait a second. We didn’t.
and then
Remember when high school students who made disparaging references to Bush II on their freshman year art projects were suddenly visited by TLA Agencies? Why aren’t these incidents given the same amount of concern?
What about the maddeningly routine HuffPo and Kos rants for someone to take a shot at Bush? Anyone on the left remember that? No? Funny, I sure do.
I’m convinced that these are neither “mistakes” nor are they “accidental.”
Absolutely. Must be the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy again.
Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
Actually, I don’t remember that. Got a link?
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