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C’mon now, libtards. Ad dollars are running thin these days. Some schlock wants to buy an “assassinate the President” ad? Well, if he’s paying cash… “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.” Maybe he just meant “be a mediocre-to-great president.” [AP, The Hill]
Maybe he just meant “be a mediocre-to-great president.”
Seriously. WTF did Lincoln ever do that was noteworthy?
This guy just wants to name his local high school after Barak. Of course, to earn such an honor, one must be an assassinated president, but why should he let a little thing like that get in the way. Obama should be willing to make such a sacrifice in order to give his name to schools, roads, and maybe even a town or two!
I guess now that Craiglist is taking all the ad revenue from newspapers and they’re dying, some newspapers have to lower their advertising standards.
I don’t know which is more depressing - a wingnut putting an assassination ad in the paper or a newspaper staff that doesn’t know even basic US history.
Oh sure, the publisher didn’t make the historical connection.
Didn’t Garfield die from swallowing a whole lasagna? Or was that hairballs?
tehbenton:
I think he invented the penny.
What you guys don’t know is that all those presidents were amazing at basketball.
They all banged Marylin Monroe?
TGY: I hope Bush follows in the footsteps of Odie.
All gay?
They were all queer French socialisms. Quiche eating and beret wearing. Also.
american mutt: Or Reagan. At some point the vegetable on the inside has to creep out and take over the outside too.
All wore beards except those who didn’t?
They all had a secretary named after each other?
Maybe they just really love Biden.
I think it’s safe to say none of those Scripps spelling bee contestants came out of Warren, PA.
Gorillionaire: This is a northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper. No degree of stupidity should surprise. Think Santorum.
Garfield actually died from too much lasagna, so that one doesn’t count.
SAVE LOCAL PAPERS!!11!
He wants Obama to be an old bloated drunk with brain cancer?
To be fair, he probably didn’t think Lincoln counted because Abe was a nigger lover.
This is what’s wrong with America today. Don’t sit there at home hoping that someone else will assassinate the president like some liberal pansy. Get out there and take a couple shots at him yourself! That’s the sort of initiative, the “can-do” spirit, that made America great.
More likely the buyer wrote Reagraham Lincool but the staff changed it to Lincoln.
Go easy on the advertisement department. The paper probably outsourced it to some foreign country like Texas.
Keystone Progress broke this story yesterday. After the blogosphere took up the story the Times Observer was forced to issue an apology which got picked up by the AP. The original story can be viewed on Daily Kos or at http://www.keystoneprogress.blogspot.com
Having lived close to NW PA (over the line in NE Ohio, which is even worse), the ad dept didn’t have to be outsourced to TX or even India for teh stoopid to happen. Probably the staff member who took the ad agreed with it and/or didn’t get it or both.
TGY: lasagna, but anarchist lasagna that defected to Russia, came back to the US to become a failed actor.
@Keystone Progress: Oh, sure. Barge in here, flaunting your competency at us. *grumbles*
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy all loved weed?
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Totally. Do you think Lee Harvey Oswald sent out personal ads begging for somebody to shoot JFK? Nope, he got off his ass and did it himself. Well, along with the mob and the CIA, not to mention all the other shooters from the grassy knoll, but still.
McKinley was notorious for his reliance on teleprompters.
They were all born in Kenya?
They all thought Warren, Pennsylvania was a shithole, the arse of the world.
Obama’s safe. Lincoln freed teh negros, Garfeild was a half breed, McKinnley was weak with the a-sians, and Kennedy was in bed with teh wops. Being a white prezident and lovin coloreds=not so good…being colored prez and taking care of whitey-world=second term
They were all published.
They all appointed someone to the supreme court…
May Rush Limbaugh follow in the footsteps of Moby Dick, Mr. Creosote, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen & Violet Beauregarde.
TGY: My Lincoln died swallowing a cylinder.
ManchuCandidate: You forget that Lincoln, being the founder of the Republican Party, was a closeted homosexual.
They are the four presidents in Point Break?
Oh Jesus, every newspaper wants to kill Obama, it seems. The “Roswell Beacon” has a wonderful photo of our President:
http://www.shortsshortsshorts.com/?p=3471
Jeebus.
I’m confused - have the staff of this newspaper never seen ‘Assassins?’ Even a local production? Can someone send Sondheim over to beat them?
Gorillionaire: And, as stoopit as the ad reps are, did you read the comment thread on this “newspaper?” Why all the typos? Scar tissue on the knuckles. Also.
Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper’s advertising staff didn’t make the historical connection.”
Pennsylvania’s finest high school graduates.
No alt-text on the ad? You’re killing me!
Secret Service knocking on slack-jawed yokel’s door in 3, 2, 1…
Ahhhh,Beautiful Warren, Pride of the Alleghenys………….Central to the culture in warren is the United Refining Co. refinery………centrally located so there’s no place to go ( in town ) to escape the smell of ignorance and stupidity.
um.. isn’t Pittsburgh near NW PA and isn’t the great Cut Nut in Pittsburgh serving her probation for being a terrist??? I know who posted this ad!