Townhall.com cartoon shows bin Laden wearing "Obama 2008" button
 
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:53:04 -0400


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<p><b>Townhall.com cartoon shows bin Laden wearing "Obama 2008" button </b></p>
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<p>A sidebar on the conservative website
Townhall.com features a cartoon of a bearded man with a rifle -- presumably Al Qaeda
leader <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200704170003&http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/binladen.section.html">Osama bin Laden</a> --
wearing a button that reads "Obama 2008." In the image, the man is
smiling and giving a thumbs-up. As of April 17, the sidebar appears aside every column on
the website and invites visitors to "Click Here" for "More
Funnies." The image is linked to Townhall.com&#39;s "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200704170003&http://www.townhall.com/Funnies/Default.aspx">The Funnies</a>," a collection of
political cartoons by "Townhall.com Cartoonists."</p>

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<i>Media
Matters for America</i> has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703200011#name?src=clip200704170003">documented</a> numerous examples of
media figures&#39; making reference to Sen.
Barack Obama&#39;s (D-IL) name and its similarity
to "Osama."</p>

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