Newspaper ad calls for Obama's assassinationBy Eric Zimmermann - 05/29/09 10:11 AM ET
A Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running an ad calling for the assassination of President Obama.
In the Thursday edition of The Warren Times Observer, the paper ran a personal ad that read, "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy." Each of those presidents was assassinated.
The publisher of the paper told the Associated Press that the paper didn't originally realize the meaning of the ad, and the Times Observer apologized for the oversight in Friday's edition.
The Secret Service is reportedly investigating the incident.
thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/35250-newspaper-ad-calls-for-obamas-assassinationQuestion to Broun: Who’s going to shoot President Obama?By Blake Aued - Athens Banner-Herald
Published February 23rd, 2011
At Rep. Paul Broun’s town hall meeting on Tuesday, the Athens congressman asked who had driven the farthest to be there and let the winner ask the first question.
We couldn’t hear the question in the back of the packed Oglethorpe County Commission chamber, but whatever it was, it got a big laugh. According to an outraged commenter on the article, the question was, when is someone going to shoot Obama?
I’ve asked Team Broun whether that was indeed the question and haven’t gotten an answer. The commenter accurately described the questioner and the circumstances, and no one has disputed his account.
Update: Broun’s press secretary, Jessica Morris, confirmed that the question was indeed, who is going to shoot Obama? “Obviously, the question was inappropriate, so Congressman Broun moved on,” she said.
Here was Broun’s response:
Here’s an account from Patsy Harris, a Morgan County Democrat who was sitting in the second row:
His exact words were “Who’s going to shoot Obama?” There was a lot of laughter, and a guy behind me said “We all want to.” There was more laughter. I was furiously writing notes and didnt look up to see Broun’s reaction, but it was not until the laughter died down that Broun then said, “Next question.” That elicited more laughter.
From Mark Farmer, the Winterville city councilman who first alerted us to the “shoot Obama” question: ”I had trouble hearing the second question too. Judging from Dr. Broun’s reaction it may have been along the same lines as the first, but I cannot attest to that.”
According to Team Broun, he was responding to the (also inaudible, from my vantage point) follow-up question, but Morris said she also did not know what the question was. Broun said:
The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president. We’re going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we’ll elect somebody that’s going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
He then segued into Republicans’ budget proposal.
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