Blue Herald
04
Jan
Now Yahoo Does The Osama/Obama Thing
by QuestionGirl
Another news service tangled up terrorist Osama Bin Laden and Senator Barack Obama (D - IL), according to a blog item at the site American Idle on Wednesday. The news came after RAW STORY reported on Tuesday of CNN’s apology to the senator for a similar gaffe. An “automatic” slideshow function was blamed for the current foul up.

A photo time’stamped at 12:35 PM on Wednesday on Yahoo News, first revealed by blogger Corey Anderson, showed a pensive Senator Obama with the caption “Osama Bin Laden and al Qaida” beneath it. TPMCafe’s Election Central blog further revealed that clicking on the photo showed a larger version with the Bin Laden caption now a banner over the picture, and a caption describing the scene in which the AFP-owned photo was taken - a December 2006 event where Senator Obama was listening to testimony on radiation poisoning and federal workers.

Read more at RawStory


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