Profoundly Stupid People Frothing

[BurtWorm]

digby of Hullabaloo on the dipshits threatening Democrats because of a vote:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/working-themselves-into-frenzy.html

Working Themselves Into A Frenzy


by digby


You've probably already heard about the arrest in Washington of a person who threatened to kill Senator Patty Murray for her vote on Health Care Reform:


According to the criminal complaint, between March 22 and April 4, 2010, WILSON called Senator Patty Murray's office on multiple occasions leaving expletive laden threatening messages. WILSON stated that Senator Murray "had a target on her back." WILSON stated, "I want to (expletive) kill you." WILSON discussed assisting others in an attempt to kill the senator. WILSON's threats were in response to the passage of the Health Care Reform Act.

WILSON allegedly made the calls from a telephone line with a 'blocked' phone number. However, federally subpoenaed telephone records revealed the calls came from his home phone line. FBI agents were able to further confirm WILSON was the caller. WILSON told undercover FBI agents that he regularly carries a firearm with a concealed weapons permit. He also stated that he was extremely angry about the passage of the health care reform legislation

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Don't tell me that hate radio and Fox didn't have a hand in working this nut up. nobody in their right mind would normally want to kill someone over a health care bill.

People have been driven mad. You probably haven't heard the hideous racist telephone message aimed at John Lewis that was also released today.(I couldn't find it online anyway. Chris Matthews played it on the air:

Yes, Bill Ves, calling from (inaudible) I ain't gonna get no health insurance, tell that son of a bitch that, I ain't getting the damned health insurance. That goddamned nigger, don't tell me I gotta get some goddamned health insurance. I ain't paying no goddamned fine. Tell that nigger he can come put my ass in jail if he don't like it. Goddamn worthless nigger, and all them other niggers that voted for him. That nigger Obama and them white trash honkies that voted for that damned communist, socialist stuff. Dumb motherfuckers, Goddamn! I ain't getting the goddamned mandatory health insurance from some bitch motherfuckers! Goddamn bunch of nigger,white trash honkies, sone of a bitch communist who voted for this shit. I didn't go fight in no goddamned wart so I could be forced to do something I don't want to do. So fuck all y'all niggers. Fuck you John Lewis, you goddamned worthless, communist nigger.



What an impressive fellow. According to Republican legislators and conservative leaders, Lewis has no one to blame but himself for this. If he hadn't voted for health care, he wouldn't have made this man mad and then this wouldn't have happened.These Democraats need to understand that when they vote for thing Republicans don't like they will be subject to violence. That's how democracy works. (Of course, it's also true the John Lewis made it all up.)

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[BurtWorm]

1. More profoundly stupid people

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023245.php


MAN THREATENING PELOSI ARRESTED.... As awful as it is to see right-wing activists respond to policy debates with violence and threats, it is encouraging that law enforcement officials are taking the dangerous tactics seriously. The threats directed at Speaker Pelosi sound especially scary.

Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press the FBI has arrested a northern California man for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform.

Charges against the alleged caller have yet to be disclosed.

Several federal officials say the man made dozens of calls to Pelosi's homes in California and
Washington, as well as to her husband's business office, reciting her home address and saying if she wanted to see it again, she would not support the health care overhaul bill that was recently enacted.


The would-be attacker reportedly spoke directly to the Speaker on at least one occasion.

The Speaker, it's worth noting, is one of several top U.S. officials to receive Secret Service protection.

The arrest appears to be the second associated with right-wing opposition to the Affordable Care Act, following yesterday's reports of a Washington man who was taken into custody after threatening to kill Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

In related news, reader H.S. alerted me to a report in Tennessee in which someone claiming to be a Tea Party activist sent Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) an email that read in part, "If our tea parties had hoods, we would burn your ass on a cross on the White House lawn." The incident has been reported to the Capitol Police and the FBI office in Memphis.

It's a good thing conservatives spent a year whipping confused, right-wing activists into a frenzy with overheated, apocalyptic, and deceptive rhetoric about health care reform, isn't it?

[tavalon]

2. I had hoped that disgusting word had died when my grandfather's generation died

I was raised in the deep south and it seemed only my grandfather's generation was still using that epithet. Sad to see I was wrong.