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"Fox 'News' Fans Flood VR With Death Threats, F-Bombs, Racist Email Following Front Page Article on 'Stop The Chamber' Campaign"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 12/11/2009 @ 4:40 am PT...





Didn't we all know Republicans were already like that?

Orville Redenbachers stock must be through the roof. It's a good thing for the American farmer, that is if the Chamber isn't letting them import all of the corn they process from Mexico. It's only a few haters that believe that the Chamber is on their side anyway. Pass the popcorn, this show is just at the opening credits.

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 12/11/2009 @ 5:16 am PT...





This is the best, King (R-Nut) finds ACORN cookies are being served at the White House Christmas ball!!!

The look on his face speaks volumes

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 12/11/2009 @ 8:37 am PT...





...doesn't he look like he just found a large turd in the official punchbowl? I can't quit laughing...

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 12/11/2009 @ 10:48 am PT...





Is there a substantive difference between offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a bank robber and offering that same reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of someone who engages in, say, securities fraud? Perhaps our friends at Fox "News" can enlighten me, for I am having a great deal of difficulty seeing it.

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... fuzzyone said on 12/11/2009 @ 10:57 am PT...





If you look at the list of folks on the COC's board (posted on VR's site), you'll see Fox Entertainment Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Coincidence, that they ran with this, I'm sure. And I'm sure we just didn't watch long enough to see the disclosure statement on that tidbit, either.....

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... Orangutan said on 12/11/2009 @ 11:57 am PT...





We must be hitting them where it hurts. As they say... If you are taking a lot of flak that means you are over the target. Or something like that. Nice work Brad and the Velvet Revolution. Senate Bill 604 is also hitting them where it hurts and has 30 co-sponsors in the Senate to perform an Audit of the Federal Reserve Bank. Please call your Senators now and ask them to co-sponsor this bill. And finally 9/11 Truth is making a breakthrough as 1.6 Million people tuned in to Jesse Ventura's show on TRU TV covering the anomalies of that day. Let's keep the ball rolling!! Thanks Brad.

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Bill Stone said on 12/11/2009 @ 12:19 pm PT...





As a budding journalist fresh out of school many years ago I took anonymous death threats seriously. After many years, publications and articles, I now accept them for what they are ... a badge of honor. Great job, Brad!

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... ThePete said on 12/11/2009 @ 12:40 pm PT...





It's that kind of absurd, over-the-top vitriol that makes me want to not bother caring about any of this stuff. It's like, if these are the guys who care enough to speak up, what's the point in even thinking we can make a difference?

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Shortbus said on 12/11/2009 @ 12:54 pm PT...





"All I can say is 'Go Fuck your Mother'....What a pathetic left wing org this is......run by...wait for it.......Mother Fuckers......." Is this Dick Cheney? "Here is a tip --- eat shit you fucking liberal pussy faggots. if you nigger loving hippies ever succeed in anything to ruin this country, you will find me banging down your door to take it back. i cannot believe how far this country has fallen when fucks like you are allowed to roam free - go back to your ghettos and hide behind the food stamp, hand out line with all your other crack whore mothers" And this one, is this Phyllis Schafly?

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... slapbangwallah said on 12/11/2009 @ 3:44 pm PT...





That's ok. I think all these right wing conservative Republican crazies should be hanging from street lamps for trying to destroy America. I think we are the ones with a legitimate gripe against these traitors. Is there a civil war coming?

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 12/11/2009 @ 4:12 pm PT...





Yes, it would be just like us to get into a civil war where a revolution is not only indicated, but long overdue. That's exactly right! If the current trend of utterly demented, outright psychedelic, politics holds, you, slapbangwallah, have hit the nail slapbangwallah on the head. Civil war is coming.

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 12/11/2009 @ 10:32 pm PT...





Probably half of them are astroturf shills, the other half are made up of teabaggers.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... Larry Bergan said on 12/12/2009 @ 12:51 am PT...





The guys who sent the death threats must not be able to come up with any information to convict Donohue. Other republicans in the know must be salivating over the $200,000. It would be almost sacrilegious to give up THAT kind of cash!

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... zapkitty said on 12/12/2009 @ 1:31 am PT...





... "Islamohitlerite"... ? This is all Reagan's fault!

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... Yankee said on 12/12/2009 @ 4:51 am PT...





This is what happens when you argue facts, reason, and law with people who disregard facts, reason, and law. It is pointless, and the emails should have been deleted without being read.

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Brooker said on 12/12/2009 @ 5:22 am PT...





More fodder for the secret service and CIA - the list of criminals making death threats grows with each passing day. What do these reichwing lunatics NOT get about making death threats and breaking the law. When they're in prison, I suppose they'll finally get the message?

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... WJM said on 12/12/2009 @ 9:13 am PT...





It just infuriates me to know that every one of these emailers is sitting in their homes complaining about how they can't find a job that will pay their bills. And now they stand up for the very guy who is making it a personal goal to send every job that these people could have off to another country so his rich buddies can make even more money. These people really need to get their heads out of Faux Noise's keester. It's like they are demanding to keep getting screwed by the very people who have done it to them for 30 years, now. What a shame that we don't have some kind of accountability laws for the press. Faux would be out of business in a heartbeat, and we could actually have an educated populace. No one should make a living by lying a country into disaster.

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... Tim Coney said on 12/12/2009 @ 2:38 pm PT...





"Douche Canoes!" - Have to admit it, that's one I haven't heard before and got a chuckle from it. Come to think of it, wasn't that what the Swiftboaters used? Douche canoes?

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... majii said on 12/12/2009 @ 3:38 pm PT...





I signed the petition last week after I received their email. One sure way to know when you've gotten on some one's nerves is to analyze his/her response(s), and these say a whole lot, all of it ugly.

One main reason I stand against folk like these is because of their rampant stereotyping. Everyone else, except for themselves, is persona non-grata and has no redeeming qualities. None, according to them.

Another reason I support organizations like VR is their focus on standing up for those who are unwilling or unable to stand up for themselves against those that abuse the system. IMHO, this is what Christianity is supposed to be about with these people, but they choose the opposite in every circumstance.

Finally, I have no intention during my lifetime to see people being oppressed, and be too much of a coward to take a stand and try to end it.

These type of folks are the reason why we cannot let them back into a majority status any time in the near future. I see them as bullies, inclined toward pitching tantrums like 2 year olds, but I also see them as extremely dangerous, and I know they are because I've lived as a second-class citizen (AA) in the South among them all of my life. And, guess what? The majority of them haven't changed their attitudes toward people of color, GLBTQ persons, immigrants, atheists, etc, since I was in grade school in the 1950s. They even have some of the people in the groups they hate developing hatred toward members of the other groups. This is just how pervasive it is, and since I know this, I've so far not heard anything I haven't heard before from this crew. They'll tear this nation apart and think nothing of it as long as they are in the pilot's seat, and after that, it's back to running the country into the ground again.

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... Eliz said on 12/12/2009 @ 5:33 pm PT...





We simply have to start regulating home schooling. This is clearly the uneducated teaching their children even less than they know.

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]

... Lee R. said on 12/12/2009 @ 5:48 pm PT...





I'd love to know what portion of these loons really are "lone loons" who live in their own paranoid fantasy, and what portion are paid operatives. And while I'm wondering, I'd love to know exactly who is paying the latter group.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]

... The Indepedent said on 12/12/2009 @ 5:52 pm PT...





Has anyone alerted the FBI and the Secret Service about these threats? It does not matter whether the President is a Democrat or a Republican, is black, white, Buddhist or Christian, threats like these should be investigated and prosecuted, and any forum or message board that allows these threats against ANY elected official should be investigate and shut down quickly.

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]

... zapkitty said on 12/12/2009 @ 7:09 pm PT...





Just for fun I spent some time with Google putting "islamo" as a prefix in front of everything from "-leftist" to "-libertarian"... but the results were only amusing if you're into grammar done Grand Guignol. Eliz was right about something desperately needing to be done about education... but unfortunately Obama's solution would be to finish Bush's task of turning it completely over to the corporations. Islamocoporatism! ... stop looking at me like that. Hmmm.... Islamopastafarianism?

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]

... njt said on 12/13/2009 @ 7:47 am PT...





"threats like these should be investigated and prosecuted"

Should is the operative word.

Just like teabaggers can bring guns to town halls but protesters can't even stand in the streets of Pittsburgh while the WTO meets, I have a sneaking suspicion folks such as these get a pass.

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]

... Lora said on 12/13/2009 @ 9:14 am PT...





As Orangutan (#6) said (and other similar comments), We must be hitting them where it hurts. As they say... If you are taking a lot of flak that means you are over the target. Or something like that. Nice work Brad and the Velvet Revolution. Seconded. I also agree with the first part of Yankee's (#15) comment: This is what happens when you argue facts, reason, and law with people who disregard facts, reason, and law. It goes to show the extent of the brainwashing they have been subjected to and how well it has taken hold. I find it scary, and Fox Spews is responsible for a significant portion of it. I think we have to call out and combat the disinformation, even though it takes time and energy to do so. Kind of like having to answer a frivolous lawsuit. If you don't fight it, the other side automatically wins. To let it sit is to let it fester and grow. While most of these folks are probably harmless, there may be one or two psychowingnuts among them. I'm glad you're reporting them. Let's continue to expose the lies and bring down the corruption.

COMMENT #26 [Permalink]

... Georip said on 12/13/2009 @ 12:04 pm PT...





I hope you will post follow up info on the responsiveness of the FBI. I assume they will be able to trace the origin of each of the threatening emails to a computer and a person.

COMMENT #27 [Permalink]

... stewart said on 12/13/2009 @ 5:00 pm PT...





FINE BUNCH OF CANNIBALS, I SUPPOSE PITCH FORKS AND TORCHES ARENT IN VOGUE ANY LONGER THEN?

BEWARE THE PALINISTAS SUCH AS THESE CRAZIES ILLUSTRATE WHO KNOW NO BOUNDS TO HOW FAR THEY INTEND TO GO TO EBFORCE THEIR RIGHT WING FACISM.

COMMENT #28 [Permalink]

... zapkitty said on 12/14/2009 @ 3:43 pm PT...





The description of the condition: "Islamowingnutism": Noun, adverb "Islamowingnutist" The practice of putting the prefix "Islamo-" in front of another word (usually a social or religious descriptor) in order to further denigrate whatever one is applying the descriptor to. Wingnuts often raise their hypocrisy levels to amazing heights by claiming to not be bigoted at all while simultaneously practicing Islamowingnutism.

COMMENT #29 [Permalink]

... cann4ing said on 12/14/2009 @ 9:08 pm PT...





If ever one wanted to see the true danger in permitting demagogues like Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly et al dominate the airwaves, I think this piece documents it. I'm beginning to think the entire nation must be tilted towards Fox News. All the loose nuts seemed to have rolled into the place.

COMMENT #30 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 12/15/2009 @ 8:57 pm PT...





The Indepedent said Has anyone alerted the FBI and the Secret Service about these threats?

_________________________ If you follow the PDF link provided by Brad Friedman in the body of the article, you will see a 12/10/09 letter that was submitted by Velvet Revolution attorney Kevin Zeese to the Washington field office of the FBI and to the Justice Department. The Secret Service only protects certain high level official --- Presidents, former Presidents, their families, etc. The Velvet Revolution does not fall within that classification, so they would not be entitled to Secret Service protection.

COMMENT #31 [Permalink]

... Groer Syck said on 12/21/2009 @ 4:06 pm PT...

