Amazon accidentally calls Obama a terrorist

Oooops. Amazon.com look like they'll have a little explaining to do - namely, explaining why when you searched for the phrase "terrorist costume", the only result returned was a mask of Barack Obama...

Amazon have now managed to remove the mask from those searches - unfortunately, not before the internet noticed, went crazy and swore never to shop at their horrible racist site ever again.

Of course, it's probably not poor little Amazon's fault, beyond the fact that they let their users ad helpful tags to the products, which then help other people search for them. Some naughty people have clearly decided to tag the Obama mask with 'terrorist' (even though that was last week's talking point - don't they know that this week he's a SOCIALIST who'll make ALL YOUR CHILDREN GAY?)

Either way, it's now unleashed a tag war between the Democrat and Republican factions: at the time of writing, the John McCain mask was tagged with the words 'evil', 'loser', 'war monger' and 'erectile dysfucntion'.

Yep, this is what political discourse has come to in 2008 - tagging masks of your opponent to say their penis doesn't work*. Amazon community moderation team: we feel your pain. Only eight more days of this madness to go.

Via qwghlm via damienmulley

*OK, we'll admit that's actually pretty funny. We do like presidential penis wars, after all.