A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” The four presidents were all assassinated.
Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper’s advertising staff didn’t make the historical connection.
He says the newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad.
A note in Friday’s paper says the newspaper “apologizes for the oversight.”
[via Philly.com]
I’m currently laughing because editors miss things all the time, yet you know SOMEONE saw the ad, and quite possibly a dozen or more. And the fact no one called down on it either means the staff wasn’t smart enough to recognize the references or that the management has too tight of a control on the editing that people feared noting it. In both cases a Ooops should be soon followed by a report on the arrest or “conversation with” a suspect.
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