I watched CNN tonight and

[sallyseven]

They put a picture of Bin Laden on and the caption was where is Obama? Was it a mistake or was it deliberate? I was quite surprised. They are either mean and nasty or stupid. It was on Wolfie's program around 5:30.

[liberal N proud]

1. Screen capture here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3020727

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I'm putting my money on deliberate.

Lesley Blitzer's got issues with his own given name.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Not really

his real name IS Wolf Blitzer. The "Leslie" thing was a joke by Al Franken.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. By current journalistic standards

the assertion that Wolf Blitzer's real name is Leslie is a perfectly valid one. The fact that "some people" say it's true, makes it a reportable claim. Just like the news reported that "some people" said that John Kerry's medals weren't valid. You see how that works?

Has Leslie ever produced a birth certificate to validate his name? Not that those can't be forged.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Or...

you could just admit you're wrong.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. I'm not wrong.

I'm simply saying that some people have said that Wolf Blitzer's real name is Leslie, and reporting what some people say is now considered to be valid news reporting.

Besides, in my gut, I feel the truthiness of it. He just looks like a Leslie. :)

[MonkeyFunk]

18. Yeah, whatever....

his real name is Wolf Blitzer, though.

[oasis]

3. Disgusting. (n/t)

[JI7]

4. intentional for sure

considering their history and whoring for the right wing. \

[valerief]

5. The only mistake CNN made was to go fundie neocon.

That had to be a deliberate slur.

Rapture Index, anyone?

[Comicstripper]

7. An accident

People. Come on. They're not morons. It could very well be that the headline typer-upper is just USED to typing Obama a lot now. And no, they don't always have time to be extra-careful on such a tight deadline. In fact, when I read your post, for about a minute I thought, "What's wrong with that caption?" Easy to miss. There's no grand anti-Obama conspiracy. At the very most it was one prankster typeset guy.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Yeah, and all the mentions on TV that his middle name is Hussein.

That's just a coincidence as well, I'm sure.

[Comicstripper]

15. Yeah, you're right...:

It is far more likely that the media, who don't have their shit together whatsoever and operate almost entirely independently from everyone else, including those within their own organization, have banded together to cockblock Obama. No way. And even if there WERE a conspiracy, you think the guy who types the headlines is in on it? Did some executive swagger in to the editting room and whisper "Be sure to type 'Obama' or you'll never work here again."? Give me a break.

[Sparkly]

12. I could buy that if it were my local station

but CNN? Hard to believe.

[Comicstripper]

16. Typos are not infrequent on those news channels

Or minor errors. It's what happens under 24-hour-live pressure.

[illinoisprogressive]

13. Concider thier actions of the past month

I was watching it but, did not see it. concidering their past actions I wouldn't be surprised if it was not an acident

[DesertRat]

14. Email CNN here:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form6a.html?2

(Situation Room, 7:30 pm Eastern)

[snowbear]

17. I sure wish CNN still did the live chat sessions on their website..

They used to host a live chat for a couple hours each weekday (during Inside Politics, Crossfire, and some other show)... =WOW= was it ever BUSY!!

You could type in a comment or question, and you'd get swamped with responses from other people on the chat, or by a group of CNN employees who worked each chat session.

If you could get on right when it started, it was a lot of fun and you'd actually get responses from the CNN people when you bitched about something.

After the first 20 minutes or so each day, there would be so many people chatting that by the time your question or comment showed up, it was about 30 responses downstream..

As far as e-mailing them complaints nowadays, does anyone here ever get a personal response back anymore?