Discussion: Local Station Apologizes For Showing Obama As Rape Suspect (VIDEO)

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Oopsy, our bad. It was completely unintentional. Honest.

And also too, we have lots of black friends!

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Unintentional. Right.

Just like 'The check is in the mail".

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A local FOX affiliate. You might want to include that in the text of the article as its quite possible that has more than a passing relevance.

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Remember when stuff like that happened all the time to Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan?

Yeah, me neither.

Gosh almighty! What’s different, now??? Tis a mystery!

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Ooops, the rape suspect inadvertently stuck his penis where it didn’t belong. Uh huh, we all believe that too.

We just happened to pick one from our file of random black men that we use for crime stories. Jesus.

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Apparently the Daily Kos crowd may ahve had more to do with the correction than anything as mundane as ‘journalistic ethics.’

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Too little, too late.

It took a great number of people calling/writing the station for them to even acknowledge what they did. Even then, they shrugged it off and refused to say sorry. But they finally did. Two days later. and the anchor doesn’t even seem sincere, nor regretful.

They can take their “apology” and stuff it.

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Honestly, if they’d thought they could get a free pass on it (like they do now) I have no doubt they’d have done it to Clinton.

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I think everyone reading this headline pretty much assumed it was a FOX affiliate without having to read it.

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I can only assume the picture was because of some “intern” somewhere.

Owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Company…Not unusual in this type company for the left hand to have no idea what the right hand’s doing…Funny, last week, watching super Christian Sinclair stations pimp the banal sins of the ‘Shades of Gray’ movie premiere for cheap, perverse rating points, I realized ‘new’ Jesus would simply shift the money-changing venues to a less prominent part of the temple grounds…

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If it was anyone but fox then maybe I might believe it was accidental .

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Fox and Rupert Murdock and his Zombie employees are becoming more disgusting by the hour.

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If the DNC had any balls it would hold a press conference announcing support for new legislation for dealing with animal sexual abuse and use a photo of Roger Ailes as a visual prop, and then blame it on an intern.

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The “race against time”, of course, is that of the race pitting the dying-off FOX bigots and the new bigots being nurtured by FOX.

Creating bigots is remarkably easy.

Stay classy, San Diego!

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Yeah, the Faux news station in town that qualifies as CA’s wealthy conservative bastion made a “booboo” depicting the black POTUS as a rape suspect. Right. And that anchor-twit in the picture never had a nose job either.

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The fact they showed a picture of Obama is important, but not as important as the fact they were showing someone else’s picture when they are talking about rape charges. If it were a picture of you or me that would be grounds for a lawsuit.

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