Barnes & Noble Store Put a Monkey Book in an Obama Window Display-Fiction!
Summary of eRumor:
A forwarded email with a photograph of a Barnes and Noble window showing a monkey book in the center of what appears to be an Obama display. The email says that we should boycott Barnes and Nobles stores because they are racists.
The Truth:
A store manger of the Barnes and Nobles store in Coral Gables, Florida told truthorfiction.com that someone did put the monkey book in the center of their Obama book display but it was not a store employee.
The window display was accessible to anyone in the store, including customers where some trickster replaced an Obama book in the center of the display for the book on monkeys.
The manager also said that a formal apology was issued by Barnes and Nobles.
We have a call into the possible the organizer of the boycott and are awaiting a reply.
updated 2/27/09