REGARDING OBAMA


and, uh, somebody else too.

I just logged on to the MSNBC.com homepage and saw a bright red banner across the top of the screen. It read:

BREAKING NEWS: Man in Florida arrested on charges of threatening to assassinate Obama.

I clicked on the link and read the AP story. Here, with my emphasis added, are its first three paragraphs:

MIAMI - A man is being held in Florida by federal authorities on charges of threatening to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Raymond Hunter Geisel was ordered held without bail Thursday at a brief court hearing.

The Secret Service says Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. Another tipster said Geisel also threatened President Bush.

That's right, folks. In the first sentence, as in the glowing red headline, we learn the guy has threatened the life of an Illinois Senator. But not until the fourth sentence that do we learn that the guy has also threatened the life of the President of the United States. Perhaps because that alone wasn't reason enough to arrest him. Or report on it.

Posted: Thu - August 7, 2008 at 04:06 PM          

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