Five thousand Americans, tens of thousands permanently damaged and shot to pieces, a million Iraqis dead -- that wasn't bin Laden. That was George Bush. So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it's called, drop in on George Bush?"
I don't think it was deliberate, because I've heard two other reporters make the same slip in the last few days. Obama and Osama are pretty close, and when you're talking about both in the same sentence, I'm sure they can get mixed up. I almost did it myself just yesterday, talking to my kids about what happened.
If anything, what should really be outrageous is that people are out of the habit of addressing the president respectfully: President Obama; Former President Bush; etc. Maybe they would be less likely to slip up if they had to say *President* every time.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I did the same thing at least 3 times of late and that is not at all what I would want. If he were assasinated the cities would go up in flames and all the gains in racial harmony would be lost at least for a season.
Jermyn,
There are a host of commentators who have, inadvertently, said "Obama", instead of, "Osama". I don't have time to pull up each one, but people on both networks and on the radio have slipped with that. It's easy to do during fast moving commentary.
As to the "tar baby" comment by a retired USAF officer, I'd have to view the clip. That is just too incredulous to believe without hearing it myself. If he said that in a disparaging way - shame on him! And that has nothing to do with Fox News. He is being interviewed. He isn't on the Board or employed by the network.
Anyway, I haven't cared much for Beck after he threw Andrew Breitbart under the bus over the Shirley Sherrod deal.
Ted Kennedy called him osama bin laden during the campaign
as we see things on tv and as we talk about the events of this past Sunday and the "new" information constantly coming up, both my wife and I are repeatedly getting the names "Obama" and "Osama" mixed up.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
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