AP: WARREN, Pa. — A small-town 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 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 “apologizes for the oversight.”
B.S. Report–All this proves is the inadequacy of our public school system. The newspapers advertising staff “didn’t make the historical connection.” I realize that the advertising staff on most newspapers isn’t populated by “geniuses,” but they weren’t able to figure out the suspicious nature of that ad. We’re in more trouble than I thought.
You really don't have to be Einstein to figure out what that ad meant...
