Osama or Obama?
January 10, 2008 8:17 AM Subscribe
Doug Limerick of ABC news said Osama instead of Obama in todays radio news update at 9:00 AM. How likely is it that this was a mistake?
At 9AM today on the radio station I was listening to they had a news update with Doug Limerick. He reported on the fact that Kerry was endorsing Obama. But when he reported it he said Osama first and then corrected himself. My wife is certain he intended to do this. I feel that it's likely it was a mistake. What do you think?
Don't they have any kind of delay on those news updates? Does anyone know whether this Doug Limerick has done things like this before or has shown political bias?
At 9AM today on the radio station I was listening to they had a news update with Doug Limerick. He reported on the fact that Kerry was endorsing Obama. But when he reported it he said Osama first and then corrected himself. My wife is certain he intended to do this. I feel that it's likely it was a mistake. What do you think?
Don't they have any kind of delay on those news updates? Does anyone know whether this Doug Limerick has done things like this before or has shown political bias?
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty much unanswerably speculative; Doug's the only person who could know for sure. -- cortex
There is an 11% chance it was an intentional attempt to tie the two together in your mind.
posted by smackfu at 8:21 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by smackfu at 8:21 AM on January 10, 2008
I disagree with smackfu, I think there is a 15 percent chance.
posted by grouse at 8:22 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by grouse at 8:22 AM on January 10, 2008
I think the place it would get buzz would be mediamatters.org, but I didn't see it there after looking for about 2 seconds.
posted by condour75 at 8:23 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by condour75 at 8:23 AM on January 10, 2008
Doug Limerick is a news reporter, so it's possible he got two popular news concepts confused. One factor to include is: how often do people actually think about Osama vs. Obama?
posted by bryanjbusch at 8:24 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by bryanjbusch at 8:24 AM on January 10, 2008
According to this source, Limerick is very anti-gun, and Obama is for gun control as well, so it seems unlikely. [disclaimer: I support gun control, YMMV]
posted by misha at 8:30 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by misha at 8:30 AM on January 10, 2008
Um, erah, Senator Ted Kennedy did the same thing a while back. Even more so he said "Osama Bin Lama, er Osama Obama, er ah Berack Obama". The local radio talk host plays that clip a lot.
posted by Gungho at 8:36 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by Gungho at 8:36 AM on January 10, 2008
They also made it a joke on 30 Rock with Jenna (the idiot character) saying she supported Obama on Hardball. So it's a pretty common meme.
posted by smackfu at 8:39 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by smackfu at 8:39 AM on January 10, 2008
use the razor...what's the simpler explanation, a person who does live broadcasting of new stories has a slip of the tongue and confuses two similiar and highly topical names or he purposely screws up in order to conflate a bad guy with a good guy?
posted by mmascolino at 8:40 AM on January 10, 2008
posted by mmascolino at 8:40 AM on January 10, 2008
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posted by tr45vbyt at 8:18 AM on January 10, 2008