Birther, Rush Limbaugh fan, busted for threats to kill President Obama
Source: FreakOutNation
81-year-old Elwyn Nels Fossedal, from Wisconsin, was arrested yesterday and charged with threatening President Obamas life, according to federal court records. Fossedal was in a post office near his Wisconsin home last month when he announced, If President Obama was here I would shoot him right there and kill him right now according to prosectors.
Fossedal is a birther and a Rush Limbaugh fan, playing into the myth that Americas first black president cant legitimately hold the highest office in the land.
Secret Service agents paid Fossedal a visit about about the threatwhich was relayed to law enforcement by witnesses but he repeated the threat using different words. He also made a number of additional threats towards the President, according to a felony complaint.
The Smoking Gun reports, A Secret Service investigation determined that Fossedals wife Margaret Annto whom he had been married nearly 57 yearsdied in early-October and that he is displacing his grief on her loss with anger towards Obama and other public officials being protected by the Secret Service.
Which brings a whole new issue to Blame Obama with.
According to an investigator, Fossedal is proficient in the use of various firearms.
Read more: http://freakoutnation.com/2013/11/23/birther-rush-limbaugh-fan-busted-for-threats-to-kill-president-obama/
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The idiot is wrapped in his desecrated flag.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)no doubt.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)he looks like Ernest Borgnine's brother. And that shirt!
blaze
(6,361 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)citizenbfk
(16 posts)& they never stop!
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)not a good combo.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Sponsors have dropped Rush Limbaugh like a hot potato. If there is no profit, eventually there will be no microphone. We need to expand these boycotts through social media. Michael Savage and his ilk need to be targeted for boycott as intensely as Rush has been. Eventually stations will have to change their format.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)And don't a soul think or say it can't be done. It CAN be done and we need to get to it 6 months ago.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Optimism is good, but should be mixed with reality.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)He and others like him won't be subsidized forever if advertisers don't want their names associated with hate talk. With social media it is now possible to keep the pressure on.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)... and find some other method to publish his bile to the sheep.
Better for us, I think, if these cockroaches stay in the light where we can keep an eye on them & their followers.
Cha
(297,200 posts)shit eating grin on 'im like he just swallowed limbaugh's bullshit hook line sinker.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Do an ultra-sound on him so he could see everyone is important and Obama might grow up to be a great statesman one day.
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)Initech
(100,069 posts)calimary
(81,247 posts)because Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security released a study warning about an alarming rise in the number of dangerous extremist groups on the far "right" - domestic terrorists? Remember how they roared in protest and outrage? More importantly, remember how spot-on that report was? She had no business caving to their hissing fits and withdrawing the report. It spoke the truth!
AAO
(3,300 posts)Unfortunately she couldn't find any, so she withdrew the report. Got to keep the false equivelence thing going.
TexasTowelie
(112,167 posts)Threaten the president, get sent to jail, then the government stops paying SSI.
tavernier
(12,388 posts)several days in a row; usual Repug BS.
Then one day not long after, he got a visit from the suits. Heh heh; word was he had to change his underwear after.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Hate radio hasn't long left...maybe a decade. To many competing venues for Hate Radio to stay relevant except to an ever increasing isolated minority
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Thom Hartmann or Big Eddie. And nothing else for rest of his life.
Oh, and recordings of Obama saying "nanner, nanner".
TexasTowelie
(112,167 posts)Obama's inaugurations on DVR and set it on a continous loop until his head explodes!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)He needs a psychiatric evaluation and someone to check him for dementia intead of jail time. Since the Secret Service put this in their statement, it's likely he'll get treatment for his mental disorder.
It's also a sign the agents are smarter than average and compassionate. They are seeing the mental carnage first hand from right wing hate radio.
By the way, I see nothing wrong with the printed shirt, it's colorful and he has a great smile there. He is surrounded by the momentos of his life which he no doubt saw as symbols of his hard work and honor. On that day, he was in his home with his wife who loved and respected him.
No doubt this is not his current condition now.
His wife was likely the only person who took care of him. She made him happy, now he's old and alone, looking for a reason to escape his loss and get some justice for what he considers to be unfair.
Rush and the other right wing hate mongers prey on those who feel they are being left behind, that their lives no longer matter, and they look for a reason. Some of that part of life is just part of geting older. And I wonder if she died from being denied health care when it would have helped.
What a miserable situation.
This is not the same as the guys who call for people to assassinate Obama all the time and make money trolling for Infowars, JBS, Tea Party, etc. He's approaching the end of his life in the worst possible way.
JMHO.
NBachers
(17,108 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)but I'm pretty amazed that there hasn't been an actual attempt on Obama yet. Even right after he was elected, I was like "oh shit..." after hearing some of the wingnut reactions - and the rhetoric's gotten way worse since then.
The Secret Service is pretty awesome.