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(10,912 posts) Tue Feb 17, 2015, 02:22 AM Feb 2015

Pioneer Press apologizes for calling President Obama an 'assclown'

This morning, the Pioneer Press created some waves by calling President Obama an "assclown."

The off-color remark came in the context of the PiPress's "Loop Ten" feature, which is a slideshow that serves as sports producer Kevin Cusick's "daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers."

Clocking in at a tie for number three in today's installment was "selfies." That entry is accompanied by an image of Obama holding a selfie stick in an apparent effort to take a photo of himself.

That's all well and good, but where Cusick got himself in trouble was with the text below the image.

"A fool-proof way to make yourself look like a self-absorbed assclown," it said.

Read more: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28119541/pioneer-press-apologizes-for-calling-president-obama-an-assclown

I find this Fox local affiliate to be NOTHING like the notorious national Fox News, at least from several years of reading their stories alongside those of several other local news sources at http://news.yahoo.com/local/ . For example they covered the Cedar-Riverside fire (Jan 1, 2014) that burned that Somali American - inhabited apartment building with more concerned and longer-lasting coverage than any other of the news sources I saw.

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Pioneer Press apologizes for calling President Obama an 'assclown' (Original Post) progree Feb 2015 OP

Actually this was a scene from a longer video appealing for more Obamacare signups progree Feb 2015 #1

I think your headline is misleading. Jenoch Feb 2015 #2

Maybe so. BTW, it's not my headline but the headline of the article I linked to progree Feb 2015 #3

The newspaper business is so bad that they Jenoch Feb 2015 #4

Yup, I watched Newsweek dissolve into nothing more than a grab-bag of opinion pieces progree Feb 2015 #5

progree

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1. Actually this was a scene from a longer video appealing for more Obamacare signups

Reply to progree (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 11:20 AM

Feb 2015

YBR31 at http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141016197 writes:

The President wasn't really taking a selfie. The scene was a part of a longer video supposedly showing the President doing "normal things but was really an appeal for Obamacare sign ups.

Pulling any one scene from it is ridiculous. By the way, the video has aired on multiple media outlets and has gotten millions of hits.

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)

2. I think your headline is misleading.

Reply to progree (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:11 PM

Feb 2015

The one producer used the term 'assclown', not the Pioneer Press. The headline seems to imply the newspaper's editors apologized for something they put in the paper.

progree

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3. Maybe so. BTW, it's not my headline but the headline of the article I linked to

Reply to Jenoch (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:21 PM

Feb 2015

as well as several articles that I found when I googled "assclown pioneer press"

I think your headline is misleading. The one producer used the term 'assclown', not the Pioneer Press. The headline seems to imply the newspaper's editors apologized for something they put in the paper.

Could be. I don't know how that works.

Jenoch

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4. The newspaper business is so bad that they

Reply to progree (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:53 PM

Feb 2015

have cut their workforce to a bare minimum. There are basically zero editors checking online/blogger's content and just a few checking material that is in the print editions.

progree

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5. Yup, I watched Newsweek dissolve into nothing more than a grab-bag of opinion pieces

Reply to Jenoch (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 01:59 PM

Feb 2015

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