# Obama Bin Laden  uh Osama, Obama your Mama

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 8, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-bin-laden-uh-osama-obama-your-mama/581211 "2011-05-08T23:36:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-bin-laden-uh-osama-obama-your-mama/581211/1 "2011-05-08T23:36:21Z")

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The media and the public constantly flubs Osama with Obama. 🙂

Some recent media gaffs reporting Obama Bin Laden dead. Even one President Osama is dead report.

Two great videos here. The second one is the best.  
[http://thestir.cafemom.com/in\_the\_news/119871/10\_funniest\_obama\_osama\_name?quick\_picks=1&utm\_medium=sem2&utm\_source=outbrain&utm\_campaign=outbrain&utm\_content=outbrain\_feb\_test](http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/119871/10_funniest_obama_osama_name?quick_picks=1&utm_medium=sem2&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=outbrain&utm_content=outbrain_feb_test)

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-bin-laden-uh-osama-obama-your-mama/581211/2 "2011-05-09T00:08:31Z")

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I felt pretty stupid when I did that myself, but- come on, they’re two very famous people in the news with rhyming names. You don’t have to be a Fox News anchor prone to Freudian slips to make this mistake.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-bin-laden-uh-osama-obama-your-mama/581211/3 "2011-05-09T01:20:32Z")

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I can totally hear David Letterman in my head right now.

“Obama, Osama. Osama, Obama.”

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**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-bin-laden-uh-osama-obama-your-mama/581211/4 "2011-05-09T03:00:39Z")

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The funny thing is that during the 2008 presidential campaign, this kind of slip up was taken very seriously. I remember Chris Mathews messing up and over apologizing about it.

Now people make the mistake and move on.

I like how Keith Olbermann made the mistake himself right before taking a cheap shot at Fox News for doing the same thing.