'Splat Goes Obama': Air Force Times makes Obama/Osama mistake on front page

[Newsjock]

http://apple.copydesk.org/2012/08/30/how-not-to-impress-the-commander-in-chief/



One presumes that President Barack Obama has grown accustomed to folks mixing his name up with that of the late Osama bin Laden.

Still, with onomatopoeia like “Splat!” in play, one would figure the White House would not be happy with a front-page promo — and typo — like this.

Especially when it’s on the front of the new edition of the Air Force Times, the weekly publication for Air Force personnel, families and retirees and published by a subsidiary of Gannett.

[LiberalLoner]

1. The Air Force officers I've encountered recently have been so extremely right-wing that it makes me

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wonder if this is intentional rather than a mistake.

Edited to add: DH corrected me and said the Army Times, Navy Times, AF Times etc. all published by the same source. I still say I have seen more strident right-wingers in the AF (and more hyper religious types) (in the officer corp, not the enlisted, they are a lot more like everyone else in the U.S., mixed politically) than I have anywhere else in my life.

[Fumesucker]

2. I don't believe it was a mistake..

Gannett and the Air Force are both right wing to the max.

Yes, I know some AF personnel are not wingnuts but the overall culture is probably the most right wing of the armed services.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Even if they had used the correct name is this the kind of shit our tax dollars are paying for?

Celebrating some seal's back yard assassin game?

On EDIT: Of course, it is not a tax funded paper. Should have checked first. Still very poor taste and should have no association with our armed forces.

[Scuba]

4. The Air Farce.