Out: “botched jokes.” In: “bad typos.”
Remember CNN’s segment about confusion between Obama and Osama? Well, apparently not everyone at CNN watched it…
The network has apologized for what Wolf Blitzer calls a “bad typo,” and the Osama campaign has accepted the apology.
Er, the Obama campaign, that is. Sorry… bad typo. ;)
Obama’s press secretary did note “that the ’s’ and ‘b’ keys aren’t all that close to each other,” but said he nevertheless doesn’t “think there was any truly malicious intent.” My guess? It was an in-house prank gone bad, probably a private joke between interns or some such. Reminds me of the time a student newspaper ran a front-page article with the byline “By George W. Bush,” then ran a correction the next day explaning that it was an inside joke that accidentally went to press.
In other Obama-related news, Hillary Clinton thinks his candidacy will fade. Oh, snap!
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:40:25 pm
Barack’s surname is not Osama but his middle name is Hussein. Perhaps this is why Hillary feels he will Fade. ;}
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:42:42 pm
Hey, if Teddy Kennedy can make the mistake, why not CNN?
At least Teddy can say he was not entirely sober.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:13:48 pm
Hillary says her biggest obstacle to the Presidency is Obama. The fact that she doesn’t realize that SHE is the biggest obstacle to the Presidency, with Bill Clinton’s post-White House sex life a close second, speaks volumes about how politically astute she really is.
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:15:04 am
I’ve made the same mistake in conversation. That’s too funny.