That Damn Liberal Media Strikes Again

Mmm hmm.

The Raw Story | CNN apologizes for Obama gaffe in Bin Laden graphic.

A Monday night broadcast of CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer confused America's "number one enemy" with one of America's most popular senators, RAW STORY has learned. CNN apologized for the error, which came after a series of incidents in recent months in which Illinois Democrat Senator Barack Obama was subtly or directly linked with militant Islamic personalities who have been hostile to the United States.

During a January 1st broadcast of Wolf Blitzer's nightly news program, a pre-commercial preview of the show's next segment included a story on the hunt for Al Qaeda's leadership. Over a photo of Osama Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Blitzer stated, according to the transcript, "Plus, a new year, but the same mission. Will 2007 bring any new changes in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?"

But instead of asking "Where's Osama?" the graphic over the two Islamists read "Where's Obama?" referencing the surname of popular Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama.

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We've all mistyped something, even something important, but really. Let's get some oversight in the banner headline department. After the concerted effort by the right-wing to conflate Obama w/ America's Enemy #1, you'd think that the media would want to show special care not to make this sort of egregious "error." You'd think, if you expected that journalism were an honorable profession peopled with honorable professionals.

I'm putting on my tinfoil hat for this one. I don't trust CNN any further than I can throw 'em.

Comments

[dharma]

Wow is about all I can manage. And not in a good way.

[handdrummer]

The only news progam I trust at all is Keith Olbermann's show. And about half of that is celebrity twadle about Tom the Scientologist or poor Brittany and her quest to return to the lost trailer park of her youth. Sigh.