DISGUSTING Georgia tabloid shows photo of Obama in RIFLE CROSSHAIRS!

(and I *live* here... :grr:)



1. Please DU the poll on the AJC.

2. Feel free to let the editor of the "Roswell Beacon" know how you feel: http://beaconcast.com/ (even though it's obvious he's a RW jerk)

3. If you are an Atlanta-area resident, please contact the advertisers below the picture, and encourage them to not advertise in this rag (thanks to this blogger on DailyKos for the list! :hi: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/20/123456/580 )





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Emory Johns Creek Hospital
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Holiday Inn Roswell
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Harrison Motor Sports
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Northpoint Office Furniture
770-640-5581
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Music Matters
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Reliable Heating and Air
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Fitness Together
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Mom’s Table
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Cigar Merchant
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Crabapple Wellness and Med Spa
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Flagstar Bank
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North Atlanta Boot Camp
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Sage Woodfire Tavern
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Tent Sale a la Mode Interiors
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St. France School
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Sun Station Tanning Salon
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Income Oriented Investors
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08.still in the mnds of many in 2008

Obama Backlash?

What the hell was the cover story about?

The accompanying article is about hate groups in the area who are upset about Senator Obama’s candidacy and concerns the local authorities have about possible violent acts from these groups.

The article itself is not offensive, but the cover is beyond the pale. As indicated by the article, there are some serious racists in the area, and Obama’s candidacy has brought out the worst in a lot of people. The last thing we need is a newspaper to suggest assassination with an incendiary cover such as this.

it's about whites resenting a black man for gaining power...and possibly doing something about it. If so, the cover image might make sense, although it still borders on complicity or suggestion.

Jail time seems to have that effect on people.

This is disgusting.

I agree with you completely, but please put your brain in gear before shouting about it or you cancel out your own point.

That's got to be illegal if any threat of a public official is, right? :shrug:

the scum are well trained and on message. Just another display of christian conservative values.

Who is the owner? I don't want to click on the link.

From their site:



More staff info is on their "contact us" page:

http://beaconcast.com/categories/20070614_5

The NAACP, among other groups, should be contacting him shortly.

Despicable!

Nothing to see here. :eyes:

superimposed in front of the trigger. Not exactly AIMED at his head, but the suggestion was clear.

Link: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html

:eyes:

if you don't think both campaigns have EXPERTS pouring over every inch of campaign literature and commercials then I have a flying pig to sell you. They spend a lot of money to design everything a certain way for a purpose. So if the gun was pointed at Obama's head it had to be for a specific reason... I can only think of one, but I will be glad to hear any suggestions you have.

The gun in the mailer was pointing past Obama's head. You can argue the psychological meaning of the image, and your point may have some validity, but this will be lost on the majority of readers who will mock you for being a hysterical paranoid. Pick battles you can win, not ones where you are doomed to failure.

You might as well try to sell copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica at a book-burning.

I, too, found the gun-mailer suggestive Sen. Obama being on the receiving end of that rifle. It was done subtly enough to be able to argue innocence but Sen. Obama clearly was positioned in such a way as for the image to be open to either interpretation.

I also thought the HRC mailer was a real problem as soon as I saw it some time ago. Maybe I'm just skittish about images of guns with people's faces in close proximity.

As we have seen from Hillary discussing racial bigotry like it is a perfectly normal and acceptable reason to vote or not vote for a candidate, bigots are now emboldened to tell the world that they voted based on race.

I think discussion of assassination makes the idea more acceptable, regardless of how many disclaimers are used. The more accepted it becomes, the more likely it will be carried out, IMO.

I don't agree with the practice of "alerting" mods for most issues, but I do when it comes to the safety of a person. So I will alert the mods on these posts. I've only done it once so far, and I don't know if the thread was locked or pulled.

I've lived through enough assassinations of politicians in my life. I have zero tolerance for it and anything that leads up to it.

Those people are living amongst us, so we can't just tune it out as easily as you can.

that's why the locals are always so surprised when something untoward happens....it only takes one person...wb

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But honestly, contacting their advertisers (if you live in Atlanta) will do FAR more to their bottom line than calling them directly.

Your informative post is great though...a response with positive action instead of hate (it can be difficult.)

I added item #1; he/she came up with #2 and 3, and the advertiser list.

that's fucked. How does anyone think that's a reasonable thing to publish?

But if enough advertisers pull their ads, he won't be publishing much longer.

is going to have to be given to Obama. This is unfortunate but true!

I think I'd like to meet that Max Reynolds guy. Man, is he walking a fine line.

What concerned me the most was how many of these guys have military backgrounds. There has to be a way to use their military service for something productive, rather than let them get sucked into these destructive militia-like groups. This is particularly a concern with all of the soldiers we'll have coming back from Iraq.

By the way, I can't find that picture on their site anymore, so I'm sure they've already been contacted by the Secret Service.

ETA: In case anyone else bothers to read this, what the hell does that last sentence mean?

The article is still on the site (last week's issue), but the cover on the site now has this week's issue.

Still, we can hope...

I'd encourage you to read it.

It's important to understand what and how these people think.

AJC says the Obama cover is from the May 15 issue, which you can barely make out in the picture above (although the article on the site has a May 21 date--maybe they updated the article?).

And yes, I've read the accompanying article...fascinating and scary.

They almost certainly got at least a call from the Secret Service.

So what did you think of that last sentence? Was he encouraging them to vote for Obama so that later they could attempt to...(I won't mention it)??

Seems like the last crowd to be voting for Obama.

It's still the 1950s down here for the most part.

Oh Lord...

That AWFUL cover is actually legally protected freedom of speech and/or expression. I don't care what the publisher *says8 they intended by depicting Obama in the crosshairs, it's clearly a horrible image which suggests the unthinkable.

BTW, back before Bush was elected in 2000, I saw some guy on late night TV hold up a 'poster' of GW Bush's face with the title 'Sniper Wanted.' That was wrong too.

I live in Atlanta. I will call some of those advertisers and suggest they get out of their contracts with the free POS rag.

The editor of the paper would be rounded up as an enemy combatant.

Rp

Yeah this is the Beacon of Responsibility (to use a pun).

Rp

I just visited the Roswell 'Beacon' website.

Taxpayer money partly supports this rag, since the City of Roswell (Fulton County) uses it as an advertising vehicle:

http://beaconcast.com/categories/20080115

Are there any GA resident lawyers on DU who can put the fear of God on the publisher?

strikes me as so cosmopolitan and diverse. I guess Georgia is going to be the epicenter of ugliness this campaign season.

Home of the KKK parades several years ago.

And just east of Cobb County, home of the "We disapprove of homosexuality" resolution--that cost them an Olympic event in 1996 (and its accompanying tourist dollars).

Sadly, we live in a very red state.

Oh, geez.

Edit:

Found the story -- it was in Cumming, Georgia, Forsyth County:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/forsyth.html

The KKK sued Forsyth County due to a parade they wanted. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.

15 years or so I think. Still, I'm guessing some of those a-holes still live there. Hopefully most have been driven out by the property values going up.

But yeah, it was quite a controversy in the late 80's/early 90's.

So, obviously, the place must have changed. It's getting pretty developed now.

:wtf:

I agree 100% with your views about this disgusting tabloid trash. But whenever someone says 'DU the poll' it means the same thing as 'spam the poll', and offers our detractors a free hand to say 'DU = Spam'. Online polls are stupid and meaningless, and inviting people to spam them on behalf of DU elevates their importance while detracting from our credibility.

And *anyone* has a right to vote in this poll, DUers included. Not to mention that there's no way to tell who has voted or where they're from.

Lowering that 24% who think the cover is perfectly fine FAR outweighs the risk of getting labeled spammers by Freepers. WGAS what they think?

So no, I will keep the tradition of "DU this poll", thankyouverymuch. :hi:

This is what she's waiting for while she destroys the Democratic party..

Its really that simple, and her backers LOVE that it bothers and hurts people.. Sadists, just look at how they answer those posts where we worry about the party.. They are laughing in our faces right here on this board..

And NO One does a thing about it.. In the interest of "fairness" to these sickos we are ALL going to lose our homes and Liberties..

Cut out these cancers or join them.

Gee, maybe because it would attract even more attention. Hey, Clinton peeps--same logic works for the nutcracker incident. Let's not give assholes free advertising.