John Cusack Calls for 'Satanic Death' of Fox News, GOP Leaders

[Amerigo Vespucci]

John Cusack Calls for 'Satanic Death' of Fox News, GOP Leaders

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/08/31/actor-john-cusack-calls-satanic-death-fox-news-gop-leaders/?test=faces



Actor John Cusack went on a caustic Twitter rampage Sunday evening, attacking former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News.

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted.

Cusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.

And while the U.S. Constitution protects Cusack's right to speak his mind, some critics say he should be more careful about what he says, since he has more than 200,000 Twitter followers.

“His provocative tweets could easily incite a rabid fan to commit violent acts against Fox News Headquarters and others he names," said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills-based psychiatrist and author of "Coping With Terrorism: Dreams Interrupted."

"Fans could not only be influenced because of their devotion to Cusack, the man, but also because of their love for one of the characters he plays,” she told Fox411.

[Warpy]

1. Wow. I don't want them dead. I do want them all poor.

I'm Irish. We don't want to lend our enemies a simple, clean and final death. We want them to live long, miserable lives.

I want them to live in the poverty their party condemned me to for so long.

[Gabi Hayes]

72. amen...for most of those creatures, that would be very close to hell on earth for them;

a fate worth than death

[jgraz]

83. And in prison.

[BolivarianHero]

89. Ummm really?

Why didn't you work harder instead of wasting all your time crying for my tax money hand-outs?

:sarcasm:

[JuniperLea]

2. Threats?

Hahahaha!

Listen up you Faux Gnus asshats. When someone says "I AM GOING TO DO X Y Z TO YOU," that's a threat. When someone says they are "FOR" something, not a threat.

[Ian David]

3. Cusack fans wouldn't harm anyone at Fox "News."

They'd just stand outside holding boom-boxes above their heads.



Hey, let's all go do that!

Anyway, how DARE a Liberal make a joke about death and killing and stuff-- only Conservatives are allowed to do that!

[RandomThoughts]

96. Yes Say Anything, a very inspiring movie.

I enjoyed that movie very much, and many other by Cusack.

Although not sure I agree with his choice of phrasing of the comment.

[Ian David]

97. "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a satanic death cult center." n/t

[dflprincess]

4. They're worried about Cusack inciting a "rabid fan" to

"commit violent acts against Fox News Headquarters"???? :rofl:

They really are irony impaired, aren't they?

(And, I'm inclinded to think Cusack's fans are smarter than Beck's)

[Generic Brad]

91. They should really be worried about someone using "The Hot Tub Time Machine"

Imagine going back to the 1980's and preventing the Fairness Doctrine from being revoked. No more Fox News. (Or should I say "Fox Lou's"?)

[live love laugh]

106. Yeah THAT they worry about meanwhile Palin tweets "Lock and Load" Fuck "Them"nt

[asdjrocky]

5. I'm with John.

I'm damned tired of being careful about what I say to assholes.

[earth mom]

101. Me too. Especially when those Faux Freaks spew hatred & incite violence 24/7 towards the majority

of the population! :crazy:

[Ganja Ninja]

6. He's calling for a "Satanic Death Cult Center"

Not the "Satanic Death of FOX news and GOP leaders".

[Orsino]

10. The headline is another lie...

...from the Satanic death cult at Fox.

[The Doctor.]

14. gee... Faux News misquoting someone?

Never!

:sarcasm:

[mzmolly]

30. Yes it is. Cusak jokingly replied to a question about the mosque.

Fox "news" wants a new liberal villain it seems?

[Dennis Donovan]

17. You mean Fox news LIED?!?

Oh, I'm getting the vapors!:rofl:

[tsuki]

58. Fox lied. In other news, sky is blue, water is wet. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

66. The bogus headline, to me, is the real story...

...that's why I posted it "as is." I thought about pointing out the lie in my thread title, but I assumed DU would draw the correct conclusions just by reading the post. There's a built-in assumption that the average "Fox Fan" will read the title, believe the title, read the article, and not see the disconnect...because they only see what Fox tells them to see.

:patriot:

[progressoid]

93. Yeah, yet again not too brilliant on the reading comprehension over there at FOX.

[surrealAmerican]

7. Doesn't exactly sound like a threat to me.

He may want to work on his typing skills, though.

[closeupready]

8. If they can dish it out, they can take it, can't they?

They seem to have no problem with baiting rhetoric and language.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Cusack should be more careful in what he says

If Sarah Palin or Michele Bachamnn tweeted that about Rachel Maddow, the Speaker and the President, we'd be all over her and quoting it for years, and rightly so. This tweet sounds like something Ann Coulter would have said.

Mr. Cusack has joined in their hate fest. The proper response to their hate fest is to ask them to tone it down and tell them their ideas (for want of a better word) simply don't work and make no sense.

[Orsino]

11. Read past the Fox framing, please.

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted.

That's not a call for anyone's death. Fox is lying to you.

[disillusioned73]

21. I had to read it twice myself, their trying to twist

into something it's not - as usual

[truebrit71]

31. Except that's not what he said...read the words..not the Faux headlines..

...

[EOTE]

53. Palin and Bachmann have said far more evil and bizarre things just this afternoon.

They say them with such speed and ferocity, I begin to feel uneasy if a half day passes and I HAVEN'T heard something from one of those two that would make sane men vomit.

If Mr. Cusack was really intent on joining their hate fest, he really needs to step up his game.

[TheKentuckian]

12. I no longer care what anyone says about them, odds are the most hateful things are still too kind

[Dr.Phool]

60. I've got Rupert Murdoch, Dick Armey, and Newt Gingrich voodoo dolls!

And the fucking things don't work.

I think that the worst thing that happened is Sarah Palin got cramps.

[TheKentuckian]

71. Come on now, we are definitely going to need you to step up your dark arts

[EFerrari]

13. Fox couldn't take the competition. n/t

[Enrique]

15. so easy to fool people with headlines n/t

[Subdivisions]

16. That headline is BULLSHIT! n/t

[azureblue]

18. careful my lily white ass

Fox, the Repubs and the rest of that cult has been doing the same thing for years. And Yes, it's time to quit playing nice with them. Quite talking to them as reasonable people. They are not. They view "reasonable" as a weakness, and always take advantage of it. Let them foxholes squawk about it. And let's give them more to squawk about - something new every day. Put them on th eropes and keep them there.

I like Cusak's tweet. Basically he calls for Satan to rise from the ground and to claim his own. Makes sense to me. I'm down for that, even though I don't believe in the concept of Satan.

[mzmolly]

19. I've always loved John Cusak.

Today, even more so. ;)

[mzmolly]

22. FYI - Cusak was joking responding to a question about the Mosque.

# dan632 @johncusack out of curiosity are you for or against the mosque at ground zero? 7:05 PM Aug 29th via web in reply to johncusack

# I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS 7:21 PM Aug 29th via TweetDeck

OOPS meant to respond to the OP, not myself. :blush:

[semillama]

51. What! You mean Fox took something out of context

to make them seem like a victim? I never!


:sarcasm:
(this smiley brought to you by the Committee to Assist the Sarcasm Impaired)

[mzmolly]

61. LOL

I know. It's soooo unlike them. ;)

[Kalyke]

52. Me, too. He's a wicked smahhht beau hunk.

:loveya:

[mzmolly]

63. Yes he is. Dreamy

too.

And, who doesn't love Lloyd Dobler?

[Iris]

54. me, too. I was already swooning after catching bits of Grosse Pointe Blank over the weekend!

Now this! I have to go to Twitter now and follow him...

[mzmolly]

64. I may have to put in Say Anything

and have a nice glass of Shiraz tonight. :hi:

[uncommon]

20. Yeah, because John Cusack inspires violence in people...

He didn't even scare me in GPB lol.

[BAU]

23. Cusack is an asshat...

...and was well before this was done.

[TK421]

26. By all means, post examples so...you know, the rest of us can learn from you

[Dawson Leery]

27. Everyone knows Sarah Palin is the Koch brothers personal "servant".

[RainDog]

28. Sarah Palin is the wart on the ass of humanity

Cusack doesn't even come close to the level of putrid we see weekly from that rancid woman.

[truebrit71]

32. Yeah..not so much..enjoy your brief stay..

..:eyes:

[BAU]

35. Why is that?

You and others making this seem like a proud moment for the left, doesn't make it so. Frankly, it's embarrassing and hackish.

[ClassWarrior]

37. Why don't you answer the questions posed to you upthread?

No answers?

NGU.

[Binka]

43. Aw Concern. How Touching.

There is somebody in this thread who is embarrassing and hackish and it isn't Cusack. You need a better handbook sonny, the Trolling for Dummies was obviously too advanced for you.

[mzmolly]

67. Fox "News" is manufacturing a story out of an obvious joke, THIS is what

is embarrassing and hackish.

[sendero]

79. And you thinking..

... that the right or Fox has ANYTHING to be proud of doesn't make it so.

[stevenleser]

36. Were any of your posts more disguised than this one?

Alerted

[Matariki]

Oh yay.

pizza for asshats...

[Vickers]

57. Hard to argue with that iron-clad logic.

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

Welcome to DU yadda yadda yadda...

[Spirochete]

59. I'll bet you love Jon Voight though, don't you?

[Quantess]

75. Now that you have our attention

what do you think of Glenn Beck? Or at least, what do you think people like about him? I'm trying to understand his appeal, and maybe you have some insight.

[BAU]

82. Beck and Voight are Uber asshats...

...I'm simply not a fan of "look at me, I'm political" personalities. I like Cusack's movies and agree with him on most of his stances. I'm not a fan of his "style", with this being an example. I've seen him in ads and on shows and made that comment before this. Sorry, if you disagree. "Loud = correct" is the thought process of the right. He looks like Palin (the biggest POS on earth) when he does this. That is all.

[Quantess]

87. John Cusack is okay.

This wasn't the most graceful comment he's ever made. I think it was probably a mistake.

People like to pig-pile on newbies here at DU, as you just found out. Welcome! :hi:

[fascisthunter]

76. get over it... he dislikes the right wing

like most people do

[CoffeeCat]

95. Cusack is a decent guy...

...and he's spoken eloquently about Progressive issues many times.

I think he meant to put Satanic Death Cult Center in quotes. He was calling Fox News offices
and the Armey Gingrich offices "Satantic Death Cult Centers."

Of course, Fox News has to spin the quote into an attack on Cusack and twist his words.

They find the one right-wing rabid psychologist who will go on record as saying that Cusack
could really incite some violence.

This is just Fox News punishing an American for daring to criticize their ridiculous "news" outfit.

[lonestarnot]

103. Oh lemme guess, it's a Ted Nugent fan. Snort.

:rofl:

[Dennis Donovan]

104. Welcome to DU...

...asshat.:rofl:

[Iris]

55. LOL - inspire violence! Cause we know nothing on FOX would do that!

[lumberjack_jeff]

99. He was killing with ball point pens when Jason Bourne still knew his name.

:D

[TK421]

24. John Cusack avatars, anyone? I believe my donor status is about to expire

and I like my avatar, because I love my state and don't intend on changing it anytime soon

Go John!! Certainly come a long way, haven't you? :thumbsup:

to all the anti-Hollywood neanderthals who don't think these people have a voice or can make a difference you can suck it!!

[RainDog]

25. LOL! Tell it to Glenn Beckkk and Sarah Palin

honestly.

I would give more credit to the sanity of Cusack's fans than the assholes who support the shiny new Fux news fascists.

In fact, I am GLAD to see someone on the left call out the hate and put it right back in their faces. Once again, if you're liberal, anything is worthy of criticism but if you're a fucking fascist it's A-OK.

[Autumn Colors]

29. A couple of questions ....

Has it been confirmed that he posted this himself and it wasn't that his Twitter account got hacked? Does he manage his own Twitter account or are his tweets posted by someone who works for him?

[NYCGirl]

38. Yes. He just tweeted this about 2 minutes ago:

johncusack

of course - that's what they do ..RT @trialrunaround: So what u said was taken out of context. They pulled a Shirley Sherrod on u?

[Hannah Bell]

33. fox & gop *are* a satanic death cult.

[anarch]

45. ha...didn't see this before I posted the same thing

seriously though, they are.

[Hannah Bell]

47. i'm perfectly serious, too. they are.

they pervert christianity = satanic.

they support killing & scapegoating the poor = death cult

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. Wait a minute

Some people are worried about JOHN CUSACK provoking violence against Fox News, Republicans, et. al?????!!!
:wtf:

Anybody say anything about devotees of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, et. al being influenced to commit violent acts against Democrats? :banghead:

[slackmaster]

39. What a goofball. K&R for Cusack having the chutzpah to be overtly crazy.

:kick:

[piratefish08]

40. calling for a "Satanic Death Cult Center" is a threat?

ooga booooga boooooga!!!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[oxymoron]

41. -1 Headline is a complete misrepresentation of what he said.

[glitch]

81. +1 because what Cusack actually did say is funny.

And a little bit sad, because I can see how Fox might take the reference seriously, what with their deal with the devil and all.

[rocktivity]

42. Fox News headline: John Cusack Calls for 'Satanic Death' of Fox News, GOP Leaders

Actual Cusak quote: “I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES Of DICK ARMEY AND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS.”

Completely misleading headline. It's called journalism for a REASON.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[RockaFowler]

46. And that's why they are part of Fox Entertainment

They are far from journalists. But watch - some numbnut from ABC or NBC will pick this up and play it tonight as if he actually threatened Fox. Or better yet, E! or ET will do the same

[anarch]

44. Fox News and their followers are a Satanic Death Cult

Otherwise, why would they be so gung-ho about killing all those folks in Persia? Or, for that matter, preserving their sacrificial alter in NYC from the incursions of other faiths?

[piratefish08]

48. Hold on - Is this going to be a Satanic CHURCH or will this ALLEGED "Center"

have other community activities like sports and activities?

The bottom line is that Cusack certainly has the RIGHT to build his Satanic Center, but SHOULD he???

[EstimatedProphet]

49. Could they be any more hypocritical?

John Cusack makes a smartass remark about wanting them to form a death cult - death threat

Fox News anchors and personalities begin a continual hate campaign calling for people to kill those opposed to them, culminating in multiple shootings and a guy actually ramming a plane into a building - absolutely no reason to believe there is any responsibility

[Iris]

56. Nope! But they'll die trying! In the meantime, I wonder how many new followers Cusack has now?

One for sure, at least!

[BadgerKid]

50. That's at least two steps away from a threat. n/t

[deaniac21]

62. The statement doesn't really make any sense.

[Catherine Vincent]

65. I like him. nt

[bushisanidiot]

68. That's quite a leap to accuse his favoring of a center at the Fox HQ

for all of their right wing death cultist followers to rejoice and celebrate in satan worship.

[JNelson6563]

69. Satanic Death CULT CENTER

Talk about lack of reading comprehension! Whoever wrote that headline and the dr. commenting completely missed the mark.

Julie

[Drale]

70. We Cubs fans

are a bit crazy and can sometimes take things to far, but he means good and I guess thats the beginning of good right? (btw for all who dont know John is a die hard Cubs fan)

[fascisthunter]

73. lol... awesome

"John Cusack Calls for 'Satanic Death' of Fox News, GOP Leaders"... no he didn't. Manipulated message once again from the right o wingo.

[underpants]

74. he called Bush a "crypto-fascist" and he is right on both accounts

Cusack is awesome

[Ramulux]

77. Why is this a story?

I guess you are not allowed to use the phrase "Satanic Death Cult" anymore. Its a mean spirited joke. Who cares.

[gophates]

78. Nice bullshit headline.

Not that the headline's a bad sentiment, though.

Fox News already is a satanic death cult. It is evil and, like its GOP taskmasters, wants death for everyone who isn't part of their demographic. Why should we not wish the same on them?

[TNLib]

80. Don't think he was calling for violence but he may have been smoking something when tweeting this

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,”

Doesn't really make much sense to me. :shrug:

[oswaldactedalone]

84. John Cusack is now my permanent hero

Preach on Brother.

[The Gunslinger]

85. He never threatened death on anyone............

[LatteLibertine]

86. If I could wish

anything upon GoP leaders and fanatics it would be permanent crushing poverty with no outside assistance available.

[Raschel]

88. Writing that he called for the death of public officials is very serious. Can he sue them for libel?

[glinda]

90. Like Faux never incited anyone to kill anyone?

:sarcasm:

[KakistocracyHater]

92. nothing wrong with venting against those who've caused SO MUCH death,

suffering, & misery beyond comprehension. I seriously doubt any of his fans would literally do any such thing, unlike those rampaging shooters who had Right Wing books in their homes.

[unkachuck]

94. instead of....

....jumping all over Mr. Cusack, they should be giving him an award....

[lumberjack_jeff]

98. Twitter, celebrity and Cuervo...

...no good comes from it.

[Prophet 451]

100. Hey, leave us out of it!

Us Satanists don't want any part of these lunatics either.

[Norrin Radd]

102. TWO DOLLARS!

[truebrit71]

107. Well played...

...

[xchrom]

105. a 'rabid' cusack fan?

:rofl: i can't quite get over that.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

108. I hope Dr Carole Lieberman comments on the far more publicized and dangerous spewage of Fux

and its minions, the entire Repuke party, neo-cons, right-wing extremists, anti-abortion and anti-gay christofascists and all Christian Evangelistic RW organizations, because they're far more plentiful and far more of a threat than the tweets of John Cusack.

bet she doesn't, but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.

[Scurrilous]

109. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Count Olaf]

110. That was not a death threat- what a bunch of hypocrites

I have heard the right wing actually trying to incite violence many MANY times on national programs as well as local.
We need to start recording them and bringing this to light, because we have no one on our side. The media certainly isn't going to expose what they are doing, we only have the internet.


Has everyone seen War Inc? Best Cusack movie ever! One of my top ten for all time. Seriously hilarious but a perfect illustration of what has been going on.

[gaspee]

111. Wow

Even half the population of DU has a severe lack of reading skills.

For those who don't get it, I'll explain it to you.

1) Fox (among others) has been on a manufactured jihad against an Islamic center a few blocks away from ground zero in the old Burlington Coat Factory. The have been loud and obnoxious about it. Continuously. and are getting crazier by the day.

With me so far?

2) Someone asked Cusack what he thought about the proposed Islamic center in NYC.

Still with me?

Now for the joke part...

3) Instead of answering the question, he made a funny. He said that he'd be in favor if a Satanic Death Cult worship CENTER(-- see, like the ISLAMIC CENTER -- if you weren't around in the 70's and 80's you won't remember the right wing hysteria over so-called Satanic Death Cults) near Fox News headquarters and the other people's offices.

Still with me? Get it now? If you don't get it now, you might be mentally handicapped.


Goodness gracious, people are STUPID. Anyone who reads his tweet as a threat or anything more than a joke has a severe lack of reading comprehension and should be ashamed of themselves.

[ArnoldLayne]

112. I'm going to go rent every movie he ever made now

:toast:

[JDPriestly]

113. I wonder whether Carole Lieberman criticized those Christians

who were praying that something horrible would happen to a member of Congress around the time of crucial votes.

Cusack's call for satanic rituals is literary. What in the world would a satanic death cult accomplish? It's not like calling for people to load up or to carry weapons.

Would a satanic death cult burn smelly incense? march in a circle and repeat a mantra of some sort? inhale rotten eggs? strew thorn-ridden rose bush branches on the ground where people might happen to walk?

The worst thing I could imagine that a satanic death cult might do would be to eat lunch in front of Fox News and accidentally leave a banana people on the ground.

I heard that Fox News does not believe in global warming. But do they actually believe that satanic death cults, if they do exist, have any power? How ridiculous can you get?

If people at Fox News are worried by Cusack's poetic rantings, they really need to see a psychiatrist. That's for sure.

This is really funny in my opinion.