During a Friday segment on the backlash one of the Seal Team Six commandos is facing for agreeing to do an interview with Fox News, the chyron on CNN’s “Erin Burnett Outfront” read for forty seconds “Seal Who Claims He Killed Obama Under Attack”. (RELATED: MSNBC Picked A Bad Time To Misspell ‘Ottawa’)
Buzzfeed’s Jon Passatino was the first one to notice the mistake:
Wow the SEALs are out of control pic.twitter.com/g0F9Dvidbh
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 8, 2014
Obama/Osama confusion is unfortunately all too common. In the wake the death of Osama Bin Laden, an entire host of media outlets made the same mistake.
Watch the video of the moment below:
[h/t Twitchy]