A small-town newspaper is apologising for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared on 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 northwestern Pennsylvania 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 "apologises for the oversight".
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5616680/paper-sorry-obama-assassination-ad/
Did ANY of their staff go to school? NOBODY made the connection between Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy?
I think "oversight" would have to be the understatement of the century!
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared on 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 northwestern Pennsylvania 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 "apologises for the oversight".
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5616680/paper-sorry-obama-assassination-ad/
I think "oversight" would have to be the understatement of the century!