Obama's Speech Causes A GWU Student To Commit Suicide!!!!!

[SAMSON123]

FOX pulls story connecting GWU student suicide to Obama speech
By Rachel Rose Hartman



Fox News sparked criticism this week for publishing an article appearing to suggest that President Obama's speech Wednesday at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. was linked to a student's suicide.

But Burgess Everett reports for Politico's On Media that Fox has now removed the article, "GWU Suicide Tragically Coincides with Obama Speech," after being contacted by GWU.

"We were contacted by the university and decided it would be best to take down the story, although nothing was factually inaccurate," a Fox spokesperson said in a statement to Politico.

University spokeswoman Candace Smith told Politico the institution reached out to "express our concern that the story drew conclusions that were not accurate." She added that the decision to remove the story "was a wise one."

Following reports a male GWU student was found dead in his room Wednesday afternoon, an article by Kelly Chernenkoff appeared on the "America's Election HQ" Politics section of FoxNews.com that included the following:

George Washington University students in Washington, D.C. learned of a tragic coincidence of timing on their campus Wednesday. As President Obama delivered a speech on deficit reduction in the Jack Morton Auditorium, university officials were learning one of their students had committed suicide in his dorm room across campus...

...GWU officials tell Fox that police were notified about the incident around 2pm, which happens to be at the same time that President Obama was speaking. A source tells Fox that the incident may have occurred earlier, noting that police went knocking on the student's door at 1:30pm. As of this writing, Fox has not been able to obtain reaction from the White House.

The article sparked outrage from the left and elsewhere Wednesday for appearing to make a connection between the tragic event and Obama's fiscal speech on campus. The Atlantic Wire's John Hudson notes that protests appeared on Reddit, Gawker, The Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. Mediaite also ran a critical breakdown of the story.

A Facebook group called "HOLD CHERNENKOFF AND FOX NEWS ACCOUNTABLE" was also started by students to protest the article.

"THE ARTICLE IS DOWN. NOW IT IS TIME FOR AN APOLOGY" the website stated Friday morning.

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[240 is Back]

"But Burgess Everett reports for Politico's On Media that Fox has now removed the article, "GWU Suicide Tragically Coincides with Obama Speech," after being contacted by GWU.

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holy shit!   That's irresponsible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahha

[whork25]

Hahaha

[240 is Back]

'As of this writing, Fox has not been able to obtain reaction from the White House."


HOLY FVCK... I didn't even see this line.  How freaking irresponsible is FOX on this?

God..................... .

[SAMSON123]

You guys laughed at my Obama is a hypnotist comments, but we saw Obama put a whole room of people to sleep who were in the lecture hall, now we have people being made to commit suicide...or is it that Obama is BORING AS HELL and the poor student was probably already sitting on the suicide fence and the speech took him over?

Maybe the student was distraught over the cost he has invested in education or family taking out second mortgages to pay for his education and the realization that no real jobs exist for him to get once school was over. I saw one woman talk of owing 500,000 dollars in loans from attending medical school and having no way of paying it off. She was near graduation but had not secured a job in the medical field to make the payments. Must be one hell of a fright to owe so much and NOT be able to even pay your regular bills of rent and food...let alone a college debt in the hundreds of thousands. RIDICULOUS!!!!

[Dos Equis]

This is dumb.   

[Soul Crusher]

Funny 240 calls this irresponsible yet he was screaming palin was liable for the giffords shooting that afternoon.  Hhhhmmmmmm ? ? ? ? 

[Dos Equis]

Funny 240 calls this irresponsible yet he was screaming palin was liable for the giffords shooting that afternoon.  Hhhhmmmmmm ? ? ? ? 

There is nothing irresponsible about the story.  They didn't say Obama caused this kid to commit suicide.   

All of the fools trying to blame the Giffords shooting on Palin were . . . fools. 

[240 is Back]

Funny 240 calls this irresponsible yet he was screaming palin was liable for the giffords shooting that afternoon.  Hhhhmmmmmm ? ? ? ? 

i said it was some dirty trick bullshit ont he media's part to connect them.

You forget that though

[blacken700]

There is nothing irresponsible about the story.  They didn't say Obama caused this kid to commit suicide.   

All of the fools trying to blame the Giffords shooting on Palin were . . . fools. 

George Washington University students in Washington, D.C. learned of a tragic coincidence of timing on their campus Wednesday. As President Obama delivered a speech on deficit reduction in the Jack Morton Auditorium, university officials were learning one of their students had committed suicide in his dorm room across campus...


...GWU officials tell Fox that police were notified about the incident around 2pm, which happens to be at the same time that President Obama was speaking. A source tells Fox that the incident may have occurred earlier, noting that police went knocking on the student's door at 1:30pm. As of this writing, Fox has not been able to obtain reaction from the White House.

hahahah what do you think they were trying to do,why even bring it up that it was the same time as obama's speach.people have to stop covering up for this so called news network

[Dos Equis]

 

[andreisdaman]

Darn! I was hoping the guy who committed suicide was 3333