Saturday, May 30, 2009

Ignorant Newspaper Prints Presidential Death Threat

There have been jokes about watermelon and fried chicken, and sent emails containing racist slurs. And now a personal ad in a Pennsylvania newspaper has called for his assassination.
President Barack Obama's milestone presidency has brought out its fair share of racists and hateful misfits, evident in an ad placed in the Times-Observer of Warren, in northwest Pennsylvania, earlier this week.
The ad in Thursday's paper read: "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!" All four presidents were assassinated in office.
The paper apologized on Friday, calling it an oversight. Its publisher said the advertising staff didn't make the historical connection between the five men.
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