CNN's Screen Crawl Gets Anti-Semitic

Whoops! No one at the network appears to edit Twitter captions
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 17, 2010 7:00 AM CDT
CNN's Screen Crawl Gets Anti-Semitic
The scroller at the bottom of the screen reads "Israel is greedy" in this CNN screen grab from Politico.   (Politico)

CNN’s attempt to keep it real by running viewers’ Twitter comments on its screen crawl got a little too real yesterday. During a discussion about US-Israel relations between Wolf Blitzer and Rick Sanchez, the bottom of the screen ran tweets—replies to Sanchez's Twitter feed—that included “Israel is greedy” and “Jewish lobby runs America.” View screen shots in the gallery, or for the video, head to Politico.
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