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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2011, 02:44 PM Dec 2011

Yet another teabagger goes full KKK

Obama threatened, called 'monkey' by ex-Carson council candidate

A failed Carson City Council candidate drew the attention of federal law enforcement when he called for the assassination of President Obama, whom he described on Facebook with a racial ephithet.

Jules Manson, who ran for office on a Libertarian platform in the Carson race in March, called Obama a "monkey" in an online screed on the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. The act has raised the ire of activists because it permits indefinite detention without trial for some terrorism suspects.

In a comment on the Facebook post, Manson added: "Assassinate the [president] and his monkey children." He used an obscenity followed by a racial epithet to describe the president. The post had been removed from Manson's Facebook page Tuesday, but the blog Your Black Politics captured and posted a screenshot of it, including the coarse language.

Manson described the comments on his Facebook page as "careless, emotionally driven remarks that had no real substance" and wrote, "Not including my regular friends whom I converse with often or have in the past and always welcome their comments and posts, I do not believe many of you are concerned citizens. Most of you were simply looking for drama to demonstrate your politically correct righteousness."


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/carson-council-candidate-obama-threat.html

http://yourblackpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/california-politician-tea-partier-calls.html#more

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Yet another teabagger goes full KKK (Original Post) Blue_Tires Dec 2011 OP
So to call for assassination is just "political correctness"? get the red out Dec 2011 #1
+1 Blue_Tires Dec 2011 #7
Who wouldv'e expected wackjob behavior from someone named Manson? lpbk2713 Dec 2011 #2
I wonder how come DU is the only place I've seen this story aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2011 #3
Another Manson Family member! CanonRay Dec 2011 #4
oops, he forgot to add "jk" at the end ... zbdent Dec 2011 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author denbot Dec 2011 #6

get the red out

(13,461 posts)
1. So to call for assassination is just "political correctness"?
Tue Dec 20, 2011, 03:07 PM
Dec 2011

The racial sickness this person demonstrates aside, you cannot call for the assassination of the President and his family then just say that the whole problem is people wanting drama over his being politically incorrect. That's maximum minimization.

Secret Service anyone?

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
3. I wonder how come DU is the only place I've seen this story
Tue Dec 20, 2011, 03:23 PM
Dec 2011

I haven't seen it covered on cable, not even on Thom Hartmann's show. If Bush were still President, I'm confident that Fox would be giving hourly updates on it (and I'm not suggesting it would be right to make these threats even in Bush's case).

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