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hue

(4,949 posts)
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 06:30 PM Nov 2013

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 Obama’s 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 America’s first black president can’t legitimately hold the highest office in the land.

Secret Service agents paid Fossedal a visit about about the threat–which 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 Fossedal’s wife Margaret Ann–to whom he had been married nearly 57 years–died 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/

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Birther, Rush Limbaugh fan, busted for threats to kill President Obama (Original Post) hue Nov 2013 OP
What a picture at the site Politicalboi Nov 2013 #1
fbi should be trained in anti-stupidity and deprogramming for cases involving rush fans Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #4
Made in China, secondvariety Nov 2013 #10
In the photo at the link, JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #2
This just makes me sad. nt blaze Nov 2013 #3
he might have been a perfectly nice fool before he began listening to limbog Voice for Peace Nov 2013 #5
I know. Why did Obama have to kill this mans wife? AAO Nov 2013 #29
Why is Obama so mean? Enthusiast Nov 2013 #33
(ya, know I've heard rumors) AAO Nov 2013 #37
Right-wing media making us brain dead. citizenbfk Nov 2013 #6
Agree, brain dead and dangerous. wendylaroux Nov 2013 #13
It worked great in 1930s Germany. Enthusiast Nov 2013 #34
I have come to believe that we can kill off hate radio within the decade. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #15
I totally agree. ReRe Nov 2013 #19
Er, Limpballs is still on the air in every square inch of this country Doctor_J Nov 2013 #23
True, but he has lost many, many sponsors and they often have to fill airtime with PSAs. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #31
Sadly, he'd just go underground like Glenn Beck did ... Myrina Nov 2013 #36
Poor brainwashed sap.. Got a Cha Nov 2013 #7
Nah, he didn't need Rush to do the job. He was ALREADY a racist ASSHOLE. RBInMaine Nov 2013 #21
Old, old white guy. Yep, typical Rush fan. Shrike47 Nov 2013 #8
The Pro-life bunch in the GOP should go to him and explain he can not do this. Maybe they could Thinkingabout Nov 2013 #9
Thanks, Obama! nt Lucky Luciano Nov 2013 #11
The more these morons threaten him, the less there will be to vote in the next election! Initech Nov 2013 #12
Remember when the radical wrong squealed like stuck pigs calimary Nov 2013 #14
They demanded a report on liberal terrorists AAO Nov 2013 #30
Secret Plan B by the Repukes to cut the budget: TexasTowelie Nov 2013 #16
A guy in our local Moose was shooting off his yap tavernier Nov 2013 #17
They need to start really cracking down on these nuts before we have a tragedy on our hands. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #18
Hopefully he will rot in jail till the end of his days. Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #20
Rush Limbaugh should be held accountable for the irrational hatred he gets rich encouraging. JEFF9K Nov 2013 #22
This is exactly the type of person the LaRouchies target, and defraud. nt msanthrope Nov 2013 #24
Give him a 8x10 cell with a radio and 1 channel Left Coast2020 Nov 2013 #25
I was hoping that they could put both of TexasTowelie Nov 2013 #28
This says it all to me: 'displacing his grief on her loss with anger towards Obama' freshwest Nov 2013 #26
In a Post Office, no less NBachers Nov 2013 #27
Squat Wanker's base. Scuba Nov 2013 #32
I know we're not really comfortable talking about this... rucky Nov 2013 #35
 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
15. I have come to believe that we can kill off hate radio within the decade.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:25 PM
Nov 2013

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)
19. I totally agree.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:39 PM
Nov 2013

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)
23. Er, Limpballs is still on the air in every square inch of this country
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:26 PM
Nov 2013

Optimism is good, but should be mixed with reality.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
31. True, but he has lost many, many sponsors and they often have to fill airtime with PSAs.
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 02:28 AM
Nov 2013

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)
36. Sadly, he'd just go underground like Glenn Beck did ...
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 11:45 AM
Nov 2013

... 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

(297,154 posts)
7. Poor brainwashed sap.. Got a
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 07:43 PM
Nov 2013

shit eating grin on 'im like he just swallowed limbaugh's bullshit hook line sinker.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
9. The Pro-life bunch in the GOP should go to him and explain he can not do this. Maybe they could
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 07:56 PM
Nov 2013

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.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
14. Remember when the radical wrong squealed like stuck pigs
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:32 PM
Nov 2013

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)
30. They demanded a report on liberal terrorists
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 01:37 AM
Nov 2013

Unfortunately she couldn't find any, so she withdrew the report. Got to keep the false equivelence thing going.

TexasTowelie

(112,128 posts)
16. Secret Plan B by the Repukes to cut the budget:
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:26 PM
Nov 2013

Threaten the president, get sent to jail, then the government stops paying SSI.

tavernier

(12,380 posts)
17. A guy in our local Moose was shooting off his yap
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:29 PM
Nov 2013

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.

 

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
20. Hopefully he will rot in jail till the end of his days.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:45 PM
Nov 2013

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

Left Coast2020

(2,397 posts)
25. Give him a 8x10 cell with a radio and 1 channel
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 12:13 AM
Nov 2013

Thom Hartmann or Big Eddie. And nothing else for rest of his life.

Oh, and recordings of Obama saying "nanner, nanner".

TexasTowelie

(112,128 posts)
28. I was hoping that they could put both of
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 12:32 AM
Nov 2013

Obama's inaugurations on DVR and set it on a continous loop until his head explodes!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
26. This says it all to me: 'displacing his grief on her loss with anger towards Obama'
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 12:18 AM
Nov 2013

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.

rucky

(35,211 posts)
35. I know we're not really comfortable talking about this...
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 11:40 AM
Nov 2013

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.

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