Plymouth, MN: man posts picture of Pres. Obama in a noose, is surprised at resulting outrage

[shenmue]

Story here



Unbelievable. Just horrible.

From the article at Daily Kos:

When Minnesota resident Jeff Gullickson:

posted a doctored image of Mr. Obama’s famous campaign poster, instead showing the president with his head in a noose, his eyes closed and his neck appearing broken as if he had been lynched

... to Twitter in response to President Obama's first tweet from his brand-new account, he netted himself nationwide attention, a visit from the Secret Service, was fired from his automotive job, and permanently etched his own name into the pantheon of the internet's famous Obama-era racist nutcases. This upsets him.

[daredtowork]

1. He's lucky no one could find a crime to charge him with. nt

[KamaAina]

2. Uff da!

[Coventina]

3. Some people are just so unbelievably stupid.

Apparently it NEVER OCCURRED to him to speculate about consequences.

Hate and stupidity are a dangerous mix.

[ladjf]

9. ... and mean. nt

[LanternWaste]

4. Idiots are often surprised when confronted with the consequences of free speech...

Idiots are often surprised when confronted with the consequences of free speech...

[B Calm]

5. Fucking terrorist!

[MineralMan]

6. Minnesota has its share of Morans.

Viz: Michele Bachmann.

[hifiguy]

7. The Stupid Belt exists

in every state in the union.

asshat. For once stupidity has some real consequences.

[daredtowork]

8. Obama is a communist?

Perhaps in bizarro world where Obama supported universal health care, veto'd cuts to food stamps, and didn't put social security chained cpi "on the table". Oh, and three letters: TPP.

Everyone knows what lynching in. Denying racism after the fact is just backpeddling to avoid consequences of white supremacist beliefs in a diverse and multicultural nation.

[madinmaryland]

10. Get a brain, Moran!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. sick

[olddots]

12. were this goobers parents insects ????