Where's Obama?... Again

By scientificactivist on January 4, 2007.

The "liberal media" is at it again, and by "liberal" I don't mean it in the political sense. No, I'm talking about the media relying on liberal (sloppy) oversight/editorial practices.

After CNN slipped up Monday by broadcasting a graphic with the question "Where's Obama?" overlaid on a photo of Osama bin Laden, Yahoo News followed suit yesterday by including the caption "Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida" under a photo of Senator Barack Obama. Corey Anderson broke the story and Greg Sargent has more.

Here it is:

If there is any confusion lingering still, let me state definitively here that Barack Obama is not an international terrorist... regardless of the large amount of terror he must strike in the hearts (if such things exist) of the Republican leadership.

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