Fox guest gets death threat after calling GOP 'one trick dog'

[GoLeft TV]

Source: Raw Story

A liberal Fox News regular received a death threat and a slew of hate mail after calling Republicans a "one trick dog" on Fox Business Channel Tuesday.

Mike Papantonio, an Air America talk show host and defense attorney, lambasted Republicans who've come out in opposition to President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.

"You know what the problem is?" Papantonio declared. "The American people know that the Republicans have no ideas. They're like dinosaurs. They have one talking point. You know what it is, Stuart? It's the same thing I hear you say on this show. Cut taxes and deregulate. You're a one -- Republicans are a one-trick dog." At another point, he called Republicans "boneheads."

This didn't sit well with listeners to the upstart business channel. Ironically, those who appeared to be most upset with Papantonio's name-calling, resorted to attacks themselves -- only far more extreme. One even wished Papantonio dead.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Papantonio_tells_Fox_trut...

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If you want to see the clip that started it all, here it is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7D9cQv-TU

[Nickster]

1. Geez, what a bunch of whiny babies. Don't they accuse us of not having a sense of humour?

[HowHasItComeToThis]

11. WHAT AN AUDIENCE THEY HAVE

[Best_man23]

16. All 17 of them

All with portfolios bleeding from every orifice.

[hatrack]

19. I was going to say "What?!? They have an audience?"

[roguevalley]

15. death threats are illegal. I hope he reports them and they get traced.

[CJCRANE]

2. Maybe if he'd called them a "one-trick pony"

he would have been OK.

[Blue_Tires]

6. one-trick three-legged diseased mongrel BITCHES

[mzteris]

14. yeah, because being a FEMALE

dog is so much more of an insult.





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[DBoon]

24. my female dog objects to your slur

[MadMaddie]

31. She is gorgeous!!

[No Elephants]

36. I think he got confused between "one trick pony" and teaching an old dog new tricks. If you are

going to use cliches, the least you can do is get them right. Er, ah, correct.

Still, misquoting a cliche should not bring on death threats.

[LeftinOH]

3. I've always thought their "one trick" schtick is anti-abortion dogma...

with the tax cuts/deregulation/fiscal responsibility stuff just being icing on the (shit)cake.

[Glorfindel]

The pukes can't stand to hear the truth? How shocking...

SHOCKING, I tell you.

[rusty quoin]

4. I like Papantonio. He never backs down.

Fox viewers are too use to the pretend Democrats the network uses.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Pap is awesome. He's a great communicator and I love that he's on our side.

That said, I hate the creeps who took him (and all progressive talk) off the radio in DC.

[glitch]

7. Love Papantonio and the Pap Attack!

I doubt these are his first death threats, he speaks truths all the time.

[Hissyspit]

8. Someone watches Fox Business?

[Ian David]

37. More people watch The Young Turks podcast than watch Fox Business "Channel" n/t

[tom_paine]

9. Most potential Freeper Murderers like the Knoxville Church Shooter make threats,

but unless they're in a Nazi-KKK situation where LE "winks" at them and they know there will be no consequences or they get other "permission from authority", most won't do what the Knoxville Church Shooter did.

UNTIL they get their "permission" from authority broadcast to them through Bushiganda.

30,000,000 potential Knoxville Shooter. 30,000,000 potential Brownshirts and Good German.

It's getting closer, The Crazy Unleashed is getting closer. And it will unimaginably worse if this "recession" is really a Greater Depression.

Want to see what a fair portion, maybe 2/3rds of the American Population of hannidiots, Savage Weiners, Dittoheads, et al, are capable of with just the TINIEST "KKK-Bushie style" permission from authority?

http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/021009church-manifesto.pdf

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Of course! Mixed metaphors are a capital offense

I believe it should be "one trick pony", after all.

[AndyA]

12. Why is it that when right wing radio and television hosts

hear the truth they feel they have to talk and/or shout over the other person? They ask a question, and then they won't let them answer it. I know why. It's because they already know what the truth is, they know the Rupublican Party is a one trick dog, and their screen time is up.

No more tricks, we've seen all of them before and they weren't very impressive.

I can't stand Republicans. They really are idiots, hypocrites, and crooks.

[WriteDown]

13. I resent the denegration of dogs....

all dogs are good, even if they have NO tricks .

[grace0418]

22. Yeah, when I saw the headline I thought the threat might be from a dog who didn't

appreciate being compared to a Republican.

[Bake]

39. Dogs RULE!

And there's no need to insult the ponies, either, one-trick or otherwise!



Bake

[NaturalHigh]

17. So much for the free speech thing.

I can't stand people who think that freedom of speech should only apply to their side, and I don't care which side it is.

[haightpillsbury]

18. Wow...

Why are those conservatives so angry?

[a kennedy]

20. I used to kinda like that Stuart Varney guy......he used to be

on one of the early and very old Bloomberg shows years ago....he was actually tolerable then.....now, a buffoon for the faux noise channel.....wouldn't even let Mike talk, kept talking over whatever Mike was trying to say......oh, yeah he's a blowhard alright and fits in nicely with the other dupes at fix noise......

[John Kerry VonErich]

21. Let them try.

publicized death threats are just talk and 99% are never backed up

[dcindian]

23. So which senator was it?

GOP the party of hate

[WCGreen]

25. listeners...

You mean there is more than one...

[Vektor]

26. Obviously, Republicans feel threatened by the truth.

As they should. The truth makes them look really, really bad.

[depakid]

27. These are the people Obama and the Dems are pandering to

Makes you proud, doesn't it?

[santamargarita]

28. Mike Papantonio needs to stay away from these fascist pigs at Fox

They also need to find these rat fucks and put their sorry asses behind bars!

[wroberts189]

29. good for him..glad he got to them

[BootinUp]

30. how ironic. nt

[Arkana]

32. Buncha whiny assholes.

Papantonio should realize he's doing something right when he's getting death threats from drooling Neanderthals.

[Cha]

33. One trick assholes is more

appropriate.

[firedupdem]

34. They don't even have that one trick anymore....nobody is

buying the trickle down economic plan anymore.

[pinniped]

35. Faux News viewers have a propensity for violence.

.

[Ian David]

38. Mr. Papantonio is WRONG! Republicans are a three-trick dog.

"Cut taxes and deregulate" are actually two separate tricks.

And their third trick is "threaten to kill anyone who doesn't like the first two tricks."

[underpants]

40. Papantonio was wrong-just look at Vitter he clearly was in for more than one trick