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Oops: Washington Post Realizes 9/11 And 911 Are Different

Good one: A correction in the Washington Post reads, "A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number."

Here's the song in question:

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  • ANGRYGOD11

    This is what happens when your editorial staff is made up entirely of lazy people who couldn't be bothered to fact check a song/band they don't know, and writ about it.

    BTW, The Washington Post is from a majority African-American city that knows Public Enemy. Not Good.

  • Alex

    This is what happens when your editorial staff is made up entirely of WHITE PEOPLE.

  • cgee

    Oh, I get it... you are implying that white people could not possibly be fans of, or have knowledge regarding, Public Enemy. You must be very young or very dumb.



    Kid, if it wasn't for its white fanbase, Public Enemy would have remained an obscure local group, and Flav would probably be one of those weirdo homeless dudes singing in the subway.



    You probably think that all white people are country music fans and lovers of John Wayne and Elvis Presley. Well, as PE said so well...

  • Also, we apologise for saying that Will Smith supports pedophilia. "Parents Just Don't Understand" is not, in fact, a song about pedophilia. Again-- sorry.

  • Not to be a grumpy old man, but this is a hazard one runs when your editorial staff members were in elementary school during the 1990s.

  • ANGRYGOD11

    This is a hazard one runs when your editorial staff members were dancing, very badly, to the musical stylings of New Kids On The Block and Taylor Dayne after eating baloney on Wonder Bread.

  • mrguy

    umm, and by Chuck D I obviously meant Flavor Flav.

  • mrguy

    Also, only dumbshit assholes refer to 9/11 as "Nine One One". And Chuck D is not a dumbshit asshole.

  • Billiamsburg

    thats some goooooooooooood fact checkin they got there yessir

  • The song was 11 1/2 years before the event. Fear of a Black Planet came out in 1990.

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