Senator Obama sees no malicious intent in CNN graphic

[Left Coast Lynn]

Obama thanks blogs for response to CNN Osama-Obama snafu;
Senator sees no malicious intent

Michael Roston
Published: Tuesday January 2, 2007
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The office of Senator Barack Obama (D - IL) contacted RAW STORY late Monday morning to say they saw no malicious intent in a Monday night CNN graphic that confused the senator's surname with that of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

During a Jan. 1 broadcast of Wolf Blitzer's nightly news program, a pre-commercial preview of the show's next segment included a story on the hunt for Al Qaeda's leadership. Over a photo of Osama Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a graphic read "Where's Obama?" rather than "Where's Osama?"


http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senator_Obama_sees_no_malicious_intent_0102.html

[NewJeffCT]

1. Probably good for him to stay above the fray

I'm sure if he complained, the "liberal" media would quickly label him a whiner unsuited for a national office.

[xultar]

7. EXACTLY!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Typo? The "s" and the "b" keys are 3 keys away from one another....

I could understand if it said "Odana," or "Oxana," but the keys are too far apart for this to be a simple typo.:thumbsdown:

[ixion]

4. exactly... not a typo, a freudian slip, at best

and a slur, most probably.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. It reminds me of the Niger Innis "mistake" on MSNBC:

Sorry, but even a cursory proofreading would catch such a glaring goof...

[NewJeffCT]

8. I showed yesterday how easy it was to make that typo

see this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3026182&mesg_id=3026296

[Cooley Hurd]

10. .

:spray:

[hippiechick]

3. Just lost what little respect I had for him ...

... c'mon Senator ... grab yourself by the short curlies and stand up to their bullshit.
You wanna be president? It's gonna take alot more fighting spirit than that.
Giving a pass to the Bush-media already so you can remain their 'snippet darling', instead being of a man who stands up to 6th grade bully smear tactics?

Got kneepads, Senator?

:eyes:

[cali]

9. What a dumb and obnoxious comment

Obama and his office handled this one beautifully including noting slyly that the s and b keys weren't exactly adjacent. Had he "stood up" to them as you so ill advise, they would have had a field day. Can you spell Dean scream? Did he have proof that it was deliberate sabotage? Of course not.

[depakid]

11. Keeping the powder dry

That sure has worked well in the past...

I expect that it'll work just as well in the future.

The smart move would be to find out exactly who did what and how and why. As another DU'r wrote:

"Too many people that should have caught it before air. Depending on what they use to create supers like the "Where's Obama?" one, no less than five people should have caught that before it hit air.

Several of these people were involved and didn't fix it: Graphics Department, Chyron Operator, Clarity Operator, Techical Director, Show Director, Producer, Promotions Producer and Master Control Operator. I'm a TV news graphic artist, and that shit would be caught in an instant in our low 40's market.

Not to mention the B is nowhere near the S."

(that post was prior to Obama's spokesman's comment).

Seems to me like there might be a bit more going on here than meets the eye- and better to deal with it now than get screwed again and again down the line.

[Left Coast Lynn]

14. So it was a conspiracy of several?

You type Osama and Obabma a dozen or more times a day, my bet is you'd confuse the two.

The repugnants look silly when they scream conspiracy at this kind of error. I'm glad Obama is avoiding that.

[kikiek]

6. No the malicious intent is more obvious in the story today about his past

possibly being an issue from MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16443180/ I don't see any similair stories for Guilliani. His past is ignominous yet it isn't mentioned.

[seriousstan]

12. Just so long as they don't mention his ears. I hear that really gets his dander up.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Where's Obama?

I smell chicken shit.