Ogden newspaper publishes assassinate Obama ad

Thanks for posting. (0.00 / 0)

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

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by: Carnacki @ Thu May 28, 2009 at 22:30:03 PM UTC

But you know if that Personal Ad (0.00 / 0)

was of another type where they disagreed, or deemed it indecent by their standards, it would have been rejected.

It's not like there are monuments on the Mall to all those ex-Presidents or something. How did the person in the ad department not question how the names were related?

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 03:37:14 AM UTC

Others noticed (0.00 / 0)

Politico has a short piece on the apology, which has a link to a longer Editor and Publisher story. It states the paper ran an "apologize for the oversight" note today.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 16:29:03 PM UTC

i take it you all (0.00 / 0)

object to the ad...how come?

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by: stevewvu @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 18:13:46 PM UTC

you really are a joker (0.00 / 0)

Elchert said he had not been contacted by federal authorities, but added, "my understanding is there will be an agent in town, but I don't know if it is FBI or Secret Service."

You can wait for the DOJ are Treasury Dept. interpretation. Maybe your school needed more maps.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 19:10:40 PM UTC

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seriously (0.00 / 0)

why do you object to it....for the record, i object to it...much like i objected to the movie out of canada depicting or referencing the assasination of bush...now you objected to that, correct...now be honest!

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by: stevewvu @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 19:43:01 PM UTC

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This is why... (0.00 / 0)

US Code: Title 18, Section 871:

Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Or don't you believe in the rule of law, Steve?

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by: WV26003 @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 21:13:09 PM UTC

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steve (0.00 / 0)

Until you answer the questions posed to you, you really have no standing to ask anyone else anything on any subject.

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

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by: Carnacki @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 22:06:23 PM UTC

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it was a British film but it won a Canadian award (0.00 / 0)

Since 1840, the previous nine presidents elected in a year divisible by 20 has either been killed, died in office of natural causes or, like Reagan, been shot. Bush was next in line. Seems like a plausible fictional device. The film is about the investigation afterwards. See it?

The Manchurian Candidate is fiction. And The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Suddenly, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Sentinel, etc., etc., etc. Fiction. How many Presidents has 24 killed?

Personal ads are for connecting with people of like mind: long walks on the beach, loves kittens, seeing That One dead. Ever wonder why the Secret Service extended protection early? Ever wonder why that Bush DHS official reported on right-wing extremists? Sort of like "May the spouse of ******** swim with Mrs. Scott Peterson, and the 3rd & 4th Mrs. Drew Peterson" yuck function times the POTUS factor. Not poetry, not fiction, sort of ball-crushing-take-your-breath-away solicitation for assassination, not a date. Got it?

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 22:39:52 PM UTC

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i did not (0.00 / 0)

see it...only reason i mentioned it was that it was the only instance that came to mind at the time involving that type stuff with bush...and i wanted to see the response on here...make no mistake about it, i do not find what was put in that personal ad funny...somebody put the u.s. statute on here... i dont know if placing that ad breaks that law but again i dont like it...no secret i disagree with alot of the stuff on wv blue but i think we can all agree that whether you voted for bush or obama or reagan or clinton or whomever he (hopefully she some day) is still the president and comments like those in the ad are tasteless....

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by: stevewvu @ Sat May 30, 2009 at 10:22:26 AM UTC

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"Tasteless"? Never underestimate stevewvu's ability to come up with an inappropriate weaselword. (4.00 / 1)

CMON DUDE! A paid advertisement publicly dog whistling for a US president's assassination is "tasteless"?

Was it meant to be funny or was it part and parcel to the rightwing's ongoing dogwhistle campaign to incite violence?

After weasel wording the ad as "unfunny" (would it have been better if it were hilarious?) stevewvu then hunts down some obscure Canadian anti-Bush diatribe which none of us has ever seen and waves it around as if we'd posted it on WV Blue and had all commented on it.

Calling stevewvu a sociopath would be an insult to sociopaths. Most of I've faced at least have had the intellectual honesty to "man up" when confronted.

Yeesh.

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by: One Citizen @ Sat May 30, 2009 at 18:48:56 PM UTC

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DOJ or Treasury (0.00 / 0)

fingers

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 29, 2009 at 19:11:31 PM UTC

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