Canadian TV rebuked again for Obama assassination joke

On Monday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that Canada's public broadcaster broke television regulations when it aired a New Year's Eve skit that joked about the possible assassination of President Barack Obama. "We expect the CBC to apologize to its viewers and implement mechanisms to prevent such an unfortunate situation from occurring again in the future," CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein said. The show generated more than 200 complaints. The producers of the show denied the skits had been racist, saying they had meant to mock the characters making the offensive remarks.