I received the following email from Mr. Elchert regarding the ad placed in

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the PA newspaper suggesting that President Obama should be assassinated.

"Thanks for sending your email regarding the personal ad that published in yesterday’s paper. We did publish a notice explaining the error in today’s paper.

First of all, my apologies that it did make it to print. The ad has been canceled and will not run again. Unfortunately, the employee that took the ad did not make the connection as to what tied those four presidents together.

Secondly, the information on the person who placed the ad with us has been turned over to the City of Warren chief of police. His protocol is that issues such as this be reported to Secret Service. I understand that has taken place. I suspect the writer of the ad will have some explaining to do in the coming days.

We do not condone such ads in any way and regret that it made it into print.

Best regards,

John T. Elchert
Publisher

[babylonsister]

1. Thank you for writing to them. I 'hope' the writer has some

explaining to do; a visit from the Secret Service sounds like a good first step.

[Vickers]

2. Good.

:thumbsup:

Hopefully these little "jokes" will taper off when folks realize they can go to the slammer for it.

I'm one of the (seeming) minority who feels that the person who took the ad might not have realized exactly what was going on.

We had something similar in our paper a few years ago, where someone advertised some "WW2-era Jewish soap" (and this is in Palm Beach County, which has a large Jewish population). If you didn't know the history, you might not see the significance.

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3. Kick.