President Obama Labelled A Rape Suspect

US President Barack Obama was labelled a rape suspect by a San Diego Fox TV affiliate after they showed his picture during a segment about a suspected rapist in KSWB-TV’s Friday evening newscast.

The station, which is also known as Fox 5 San Diego, displayed a picture of Obama speaking at a microphone on top of a caption reading ‘no charges’ for about five seconds as anchor Kathleen Bade told the audience that local District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office had declined to press charges against a person of interest prosecutors had investigated in a rape case, the Raw Story blog reported.
The hour-long telecast didn’t include a retraction of the visual linking between the Commander-in-Chief and a sexual assault case involving an alleged coercive sex act between San Diego State University students.

But station officials noticed the slip-up right away, Fox 5 San Diego assignment editor Mike Wille told the Times of San Diego.“Yeah, there was an accident when they had an over-the-shoulder” Wille said. “It wasn’t on purpose.”

He added of the decision not to run a correction, “They really don’t do that when it’s a small thing like that.”

But the screw-up by the station, which is a subsidiary of Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting identified on the media conglomerate’s website as operating in the 28th-largest media market in the country, may provoke outrage from President Obama’s supporters as the mixup goes viral.

Liberal blog Daily Kos ran an item Sunday morning denouncing the mistake and the station’s ‘slanted’ coverage of both Obama and Hillary Clinton in previous stories, along with contact information for the local TV station.

Source – NYDN

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8 Responses to President Obama Labelled A Rape Suspect

MMMM

February 16, 2015 at 12:41 pm

THIS TV STATION IS BEHAVING LIKE MOVIE MATUVI TV
Judge Joe Bidden

February 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm

Yeah just never trust anything from FOX News they are anti-Obama since his presidency run in 2008. So that ‘slip’ is quite convenient.
Anderson Nkumbula

February 16, 2015 at 1:16 pm

Why troubling Obama ? Americans also.
ICHISOKA

February 16, 2015 at 1:26 pm

Some media and sources should be disciplined becoz it’s too much of insults.Please,stop biting the figure that feeds you.
Chief of Grief

February 16, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Lyashi lyenu ilyo so tuchite shani aini?Twambe ukusemuka tefyo??
Kape

February 16, 2015 at 3:20 pm

BUT WHY INVOLVING OBAMA AND PUT HIS PICTURE ON TOP MWILASEBANYA BAKATEKA
tutu

February 16, 2015 at 4:17 pm

most mathafukaz @ Fox are racists,ant-Obama,KKK supotaza,white supremacist idiots..abasungu bafikala matole
Former Zambia

February 16, 2015 at 5:02 pm

Can you imagine this happening in Zambia!!! Chimbwi Kashimba would be storming into T.v stations blowing smoke, PF cadres would be lynching journalists and Zambia police would be conducting arbitrary arrests of the editors “endangering peace”. Hell would surely break loose.