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(116,464 posts) Thu Apr 12, 2012, 05:01 PM Apr 2012

Conservative Billionaire Foster Friess Makes Obama Assassination Joke

Conservative Billionaire Foster Friess Makes Obama Assassination Joke | Foster Friess, the billionaire conservative donor who almost single-handedly funded the Super PAC backing Rick Santorum and has now vowed to support Mitt Romney, made a joke about an assassination attempt on President Obama. In an interview on Fox Business, Friess said, “There are a lot of things that haven’t been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other. Now that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof.” In a follow-up interview with ABC, he said he regretted the remark.

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/12/463216/foster-friess-obama-assasination/

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Conservative Billionaire Foster Friess Makes Obama Assassination Joke (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2012 OP

And of course the MSM will be mum on this arthritisR_US Apr 2012 #1

It seems conservatives think it's funny to "joke" about killing public officials: struggle4progress Apr 2012 #2

Maddow's and Olbermann's arguments re: Giffords worked well. longship Apr 2012 #3

arthritisR_US

(7,291 posts)

1. And of course the MSM will be mum on this

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 05:04 PM

Apr 2012

while they decry Hillary Rosen!

struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)

2. It seems conservatives think it's funny to "joke" about killing public officials:

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 05:12 PM

Apr 2012

if I had my way, Foster Friess would be locked up for a while

longship

(40,416 posts)

3. Maddow's and Olbermann's arguments re: Giffords worked well.

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 07:47 PM

Apr 2012

Actually, they didn't. The Repugs are dispicible. They won't stop short of advocating violence. But when violence outbreaks due to their policies, they are awfully -- I use that word precisely -- quick to blame the victim. When you have no credible intellectual argument that is the only thing they can do.

What is it going to take to convince the country of this?

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