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In an extremely embarrassing mistake, those responsible for running the Fox News captions mistakenly identified the Boston bomber as Zooey Deschanel, according screen grabs uploaded to the internet.
People watching live coverage of the hunt for the Boston terror suspect on one local Fox News affiliate with the sound off may have been surprised when the subtitles on the network identified actress Zooey Deschanel as the marathon bombing suspect.
"He is 19-year-old, Zooey Deschanel," a title that appears on the local network to read as police and FBI agents searched houses in Watertown, Massachusetts, for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The "New Girl" star was alerted to the confusion via Twitter by actor Joel McHale.
"Whoa!" Deschanel wrote. "Closed Caption Epic fail!"
“While it is extremely embarrassing for Fox News this provided a great laugh for many people during this tense week. Who knows, maybe it was itentional by the station to cheer us up a little,” Peter Lewish, 31, of Charleston, West Virginia told YourJewishNews.com after watching the news coverage.