Local Station Apologizes For Showing Obama As Rape Suspect (VIDEO)

A San Diego news station apologized on Sunday for using a photo of President Obama in the place of a rape suspect during a report last week on a sexual assault case.

“We inadvertently used a photo of President Obama while reporting on a story about charges being dropped in a local case,” an anchor for KSWB told viewers. “We regret the error.”

The slip up happened on Friday evening, as a different anchor began a segment about a sexual assault case in San Diego State University.

As the anchor described the suspect, a photo of Obama flashed onscreen, with the words “no charges” hanging below.

Watch the video, via the Times of San Diego:

h/t Gawker

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Oopsy, our bad. It was completely unintentional. Honest.

    And also too, we have lots of black friends!

  2. Unintentional. Right.

    Just like 'The check is in the mail".

  3. A local FOX affiliate. You might want to include that in the text of the article as its quite possible that has more than a passing relevance.

  4. Remember when stuff like that happened all the time to Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan?

    Yeah, me neither.

    Gosh almighty! What’s different, now??? Tis a mystery!

  5. Avatar for byteme byteme says:

    Ooops, the rape suspect inadvertently stuck his penis where it didn’t belong. Uh huh, we all believe that too.

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