Assassination Ad Puts Egg On Newspaper's Face

The sorry state of journalism or the staff's lack of basic knowledge of history reared its ugly head this week at a Pennsylvania newspaper when they had to apologize for running a classified ad calling for the assassination of President Obama.

According to Philly.com:

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.

The Elchert said that the staff failed to make the "historical connection." The Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad. The paper published a note that said, "apologies for the oversight."

If that wasn't bad enough, the person who placed the ad failed to recognize that assassinating Obama wouldn't solve anything. Vice-President Joe Biden, a goofball if there ever was one, would become president. Then you'd have House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a real mental midget, next in line until a vice-president is appointed.

We're just going to have to tough it out until the 2010 elections.