The Daily Item, the newspaper in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, wants you to know it is very sorry for printing two paragraphs of a reader letter that called for President Obama's execution.
"The straight forward reason the letter headlined 'What is a Ramadi?' appeared is no bells went off when the editor handling the letter read it and placed it on the opinion page," the editorial board wrote, saying that years of "divisive rhetoric" made the violent phrasing seem normal.
The letter, published Monday, castigates Obama for the fall of the Iraqi city Ramadi to ISIS. Most of it is pretty standard, until the end, when it takes an abrupt turn into calling on the families of veterans to violently overthrow the government:
A Pennsylvania newspaper is very sorry it printed a letter calling for Obama execution