Paper apologizes for ad hoping for Obama assassination
Published: May 29, 2009
Updated 9 months ago
A community newspaper in Pennsylvania apologized after being paid a visit by law enforcement for printing a classified ad which carried a threat to President Barack Obama’s life, the paper said Friday.
The Warren Times-Observer, based in Warren, Pennsylvania, ran an ad on Thursday which implicitly threatened the president by wishing that he “follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy,” all of whom are former Presidents of the United States who were assassinated.
“The ad representative didn’t make the connection among the four other presidents mentioned and mistakenly allowed the ad to run,” the paper explained on Friday.
They continued: “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.”
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Correction: An earlier edition of this article incorrectly placed Warren in Virginia. It has been corrected in this version.
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“The ad representative didn’t make the connection among the four other presidents mentioned and mistakenly allowed the ad to run,” the paper explained on Friday. ”
What kind of inbred moron could not “make the connection…?” That is the the most ridiculous excuse imagineable. Certainly whatever bastard wrote this call to murder knew what he/she/it was writing, but that someone that works for a newspaper failed to see what was meant is too preposterous to seriously accept. If, however, the ‘ad representative’ didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, then the idiot should be fired for terminal stupidity.
The ad representative di not make the connection? I have the explantion! The representative is an avid viewer of FOX and as we all know FOX viewers do not read nor think
What threat? No one threatened anyone in that ad. And don’t play the game that no one has said that in private.
And some people wonder why Republicans are always so eager to cut education budgets.
The ad rep made no connection because the ad rep probably never took a course in American History, which, at least when I went to high school, was a requirement for graduation.
The Conservatives never fail to keep expressing their hate & bitterness in creative and in this case juvenile ways. I used to be a Conservative & then I got a LIFE.
Who cares. I hope all US presidents (former and current) follow in the footsteps of Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, and every other psychopathic dictator that soils this Earth with their vile presence.
Gee, did I just threaten the world with genocide? Call the cops!
Wishing or hoping someone “follows in the footsteps, of what some may consider to be the best or potentially the best presidents this country may have ever produced and who just happened to have also been assassinated is not a direct and implicit threat. Even though it is pretty obvious that whom ever placed the ad “hopes” that Obama follows in their footsteps by BEING assassinated. Hoping or wishing someone is or gets killed is NOT a direct and implicit threat. Now if he had added that he would pay to see it happen,,,,, now that would be a different matter.
This is dumb, and RS continues to fan the flames of stupidity with their misleading headlines.