Take A Look: Here’s The Threat To Obama Dem Congressman Received
I’ve got a copy of an apparent threat against the President that was faxed to Dem Congressman Brian Baird of Washington State last week.
The Hill reported late Friday that the Secret Service may investigate a threatening fax sent to Baird, and now Baird’s office sends me the actual document for your viewing pleasure. Click to enlarge:
It depicts Obama as a clown with a hammer and sickle stamped on his face. “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!” it says.
It’s unclear why Baird received this fax, though keep in mind he was recently targeted by some on the right for denouncing the “Brown Shirt tactics” of the town hall disrupters.
In an interview with me, Baird stuck by the “Brown Shirt” claim, saying that he only meant it as a description for those actively disrupting events, and pointed to the above visual as an example of what he’s dealing with regularly.
“The ugliness of the calls to my office is extraodinary,” Baird said, claiming that one of his staffers had gotten a call from someone who said: “Why don’t you just go kick a litle child in the face when you get off this call.”
Baird added that he remained stunned by the “number of times I’ve been called a Marxist and traitor.”
Put that fax in the time capsule for later generations to marvel at.
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Thank god he has the balls to stick to his guns on calling this for what it is – Brownshirts in action.
It’s really such an edifying spectacle to watch the very acme of the conservative movement choking itself to death on its own rage against the curve of history.
Yeah, it’ll be all fun and games to these people until someone gets murdered, and then they’ll be scrambling for deniability just as fast as their little paws can carry them.
“Yeah, it’ll be all fun and games to these people until someone gets murdered,”
The people I’ll blame at that point are the GOP politicians who are sanctioning this ****.
The GOP politicians are sanctioning death threats?
Whoo-boy – time to call the twinkie wagon…
Why does the Washington Post allow this site to exist? If it was any more slanted, it would fall off a cliff.
I see most of you are not up on current events, as the Dems put out a tactic of there own. Hiring people to show up and support the HC. Yet, it’s all the GOP’s fault? Also, who was injured at a town hall meeting by SEIU? Not to mention the “Code Pink” era of President Bush…..Again, read up on some current events before spewing your hatred around America. Thank you, that is all.
You presume that later generations will marvel at this because it’s a low point in American discourse. Sadly, I suspect they’ll look back on it as a relic of restraint.
Justin, that’s ominous…
Ah, and that’s not just any clown. That’s The Joker.
I feel compelled to point out that the fax doesn’t merely depict him “as a clown;” it depicts him as “Batman” villain The Joker, specifically the iteration portrayed in last summer’s “The Dark Knight” by Heath Ledger. This specific image has apparently been making the rounds in right-wing circles.
This could also be an implicit death threat, seeing as how Ledger is rather famously dead. More likely, though, it’s simply an attempt to associate Obama with a villainous figure. An incoherent one, at that – Ledger’s Joker was a punk anarchist if anything, perhaps the ideological opposite of what the right wing considers Obama to be. A more apt superhero-movie villain, from that persepctive at least, might be “Watchmen”’s Ozymandias.
Nice to know you guys on the right felt threatened by Code Pink.
ROFLMAO
let’s all count the number of times we saw pictures of Bush depicted as Hitler…
the current crew of nuts who are leading the left and its shills (Greg) are an embarrassment to anyone who ever believed in a progressive idea.
Why does the Washington Post allow this site to exist?
It helps make up for its printed editorial page?
“let’s all count the number of times we saw pictures of Bush depicted as Hitler…”
Lets all count the number of times some scumbag republican pulls a false equivalency out of his diseased ******. There is a racial component to that picture that wasn’t there with Bush because Bush is.. Forget, you’re just too phuuucking stupid.
I never saw Bush as Hitler pictures, frankly no one would give him credit for even understanding what he was doing. More often were monkey depictions, hinting at his simpleness and playing on his facial features. As of now I have old high school classmates in TX who are putting the image above as their Facebook profile pictures. That has truly disturbed and shocked me.
Let’s do a comparison. Let’s find all the members of Code Pink who carried a firearms during their protests and then anti health reform protesters with firearms. Then, let’s laugh at the trolls for bringing in false equivalence.
Ya gotta believe ACORN is behind a lotta this. Don’cha think?
for paulw:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-150&va=bush+hitler&sz=all
The Republican party base is racists and birthers. They are lead by people like Limbaugh, Palin and Beck.
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They are down by over 30% in the 3 fastest growing voting groups (under 35, Latinos and Blacks), and yet cannot be receptive to anyone in any of those 3 groups because they are afraid of their rabid base.
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Unless/until they confront their scared and disgusting base they are doomed to be nothing more than a southern white male party. The best shot for the few remaining non-insane Republicans is to join the blue dogs and form a viable 3rd party (leaving the Republican party to go the way of the Whigs and challenging the Green party for last place).
“let’s all count the number of times we saw pictures of Bush depicted as Hitler…”
Well see the difference was that Bush actually was pretty close. Cheney was a lot closer. What else do you call Cheney suggested that the administration defy Posse Comitatus and send the military into an American city to arrest Americans? I call that getting pretty cozy with fascism, myself.
Let’s count the number of times Bush: went around the judicial system, defied Congress, defied the Constitution, broke his oath of office, should have been impeached -
My point wasn’t that they didn’t exist, it was that my everyday life now include defacing ( as opposes to mockery) of the sitting president. If such things don’t disturb you then I’d hat to imagine what does.
********! A bunch of white folks can’t stand that they have a BLACK MAN as president!
@ sbj, it’s credo, idiot. Now run and hide.
They made the scary black man white. Now its all better, isn’t it?
I saw the Bush-Hitler comparisons but then again, I thought they were funny and more importantly true. W, like his daddy and granddaddy, were a little too close to the Reich in their policy ideas and speechifying. Remember “New World Order” and “Homeland Security?” Those aren’t American phrases, they’re Germanic phrases, famous from the National Socialist Regime-Geheimat Staatspolizei? Gestapo? Hello? And the parallels between 9/11 and the Reichstag Fire and subsequent events were more than a little chilling. The world isn’t clockwork, to be sure, but some themes seem to revisit themselves over and over again-1847, Laissez Faire, the eternal struggle between Progress and Regress.
“The people I’ll blame at that point are the GOP politicians who are sanctioning this ****.” — Tena
Yeah, that’s exactly who I was talking about.
themes seem to revisit themselves over and over again-1847, Laissez Faire, the eternal struggle between Progress and Regress.
Another way that’s been put is, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
And no one batted an eye lid when President Bush was displayed with his cut off by a guillotine in a Colorado rally last year, or a sheet of stamps printed showing a gun at Bush’s head or even when a movie on assassinating him was released.
Even when Sarah Palin was hung in effigy, it was all “freedom of expression.”
Kind of selective in the outrage, aren’t you?
Since a fax issent with all information and number of the person sending it, why no arrests after a week? I’m in Baird’s district and a suspect has not even been identified.
Sort of strange I’d say.
Sort of strange I’d say.
Not in my particular case, since I never myself saw any of those (which is not to say that they didn’t, or don’t, exist).
I think the kids of the future will have already heard about it in their unit on Obama’s Waterloo. For all of those Time magazine and Newsweek covers: that is what will be hard to believe.
Here we are telling the world that we have been and will be again the most powerful nation in the world, and we are disrespectful, loud, childish,etc can’t we disaggree w/o being disaggreeable?. Talking about the enemy without, what about the enemy within. We can’t a coversation without screaming at each other I am ashamed to be an adultHow can we tell our children to discuss your problem in an adult manner and we are at eachother throats. Heaven help them because we can’t
Updating…
From a local perspective here in Baird’s 3rd CD, there is still a great deal of question about whether these 2 “death threats” were ever properly reported to “The Capitol Hill Police Department” as Congressman Baird continues to insist, while refusing to produce a shred of evidence that any such report actually exists.
http://www.clarkblog.org/vBulletin/showthread.php?t=5104