CNN, WTF? Assassinate character much?

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Monday January 01, 2007 · 5:03 PM PST

2007/01/01 · 17:03

My wife just caught this and paused it on the TiVo. Un-friggin-believable, if you ask me. It's sad, but there really used to be a time when I'd have chalked that up to simple human error. But the fact of the matter is, Obama scares the hell out of the machine, simply because of the passion which people feel for him.

Between this and Jeff Greenfield's funny-ha-ha-attack, maybe Obama has a case for character defamation or some such thing?

UPDATE: Situation Room contact page

UPDATE 2: For those wondering over the context in which this appeared, it was the teaser lead-in to a piece on whether, now that Saddam's been ~~beheaded~~ hanged on camera and buried, the US can get back to looking for Osama bin Laden. Transcript is here.

And, whether or not this was intentional is only half the point. The matter should be addressed, on air, a retraction and apology issued.

ANOTHER UPDATE: As inclusiveheart explains below, the protocol to get graphics on the air sort of precludes the possibility that this was just one tired/hungover/incompetent typist.

FINAL UPDATE: Word has it that Blitzer apologized on air this morning and said something to the effect of "I'll be calling Sen. Obama personally to apologize." Good work y'all.

Did anyone happen to grab that apology? Posing it via YouTube would make a great bookend to this diary.

FINAL, FINAL UPDATE: Raw Story has a piece up on the "error" and the text of Blitzer's on-air apology this morning. Thanks Mike.

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