Last month Cafe Press was selling T-shirts with the verse Psalms 109:8 which said:
"Let his days be few and let another take his office."
A threat to President Obama.
A few people here traced the makers to Zazzle and the people behind the label.
According to Raw Story: http://rawstory.com/...
Well, they're back.......
Now explicit and obvious death threat tshirts and bumper stickers are being sold.
They are using the merchandise by customers with such sayings as:
"Send Barack Obama hunting with Cheney,"
A bumper sticker with Obama cooking inside a big pot says, "Cannibals are starving in Africa," reads a bumper sticker. "Please send Obama to help."
Another has a wheelbarrow filled with dirt and a skull that says: "Nobody knows how much I hate Obama except the cavassers"
Real funny, huh? Real cute.
Zazzle.com, a ten-year-old online retailer linked to the Disney corporation and funded by some of Google's early major investors, allows customers to create their own images on t-shirts, bumper stickers and other products. Now some of those customers have put on sale a variety of products displaying hostility towards the US's first black president.
But, here is the real kicker:
Zazzle reportedly has an arrangement with the Walt Disney Company, which allows the retailer to use Disney imagery on its products. The company also evidently has a similar arrangement with the Library of Congress.
Among Zazzle's investors are John Doerr and Ram Shriram, who both became billionaires when they were early investors in Google.
The Library of Congress??!?
Disney, the company of little children is linked to these racist and death threat yahoos. As well as investors in google.
By the way....Isn't ABC owned by the big mouse as well??
There is nothing indicating that anything legally is being done to stop this.
I am so tired of it. For a year now the rightwing has thrown their childish tantrums and behaved in a vulgar and crude way. Our media thinks its cute and something fun to cover.
I am so frustrated. When Obama was elected I was so happy and so was this country. We felt we were on the edge of doing some positive things. Instead it bagan before Obama was even sworn in with people on the left throwing tantrums because they did not personally approve of his choices for his administration. It moved from there to the republicans saying they will not work with him and Limbaugh saying he wanted Obama to fail. When Limbaugh said that, the floodgates opened for the conservatives to go on a year long binge of temper tantrums and childish behavior because they lost.
And for the media to egg them on and to obsessively scrutinize and criticize every word, move and thought this president made. Down to the most ridiculous things.
We have had 8 years of an incredibly incompetent administration to do as they pleased with the press covering for them and the right walking in lock step and approving all of it.
So this admistration walks into the biggest deficits while staring at a depression.
2 wars and god knows how many things we don't know about that is teetering on the abyss.
Too many fires for one person.
And on top of it, every interest group in the party is screeching and foot stomping because the president is not paying enough attention to them and their issues.
When are people going to grow up and do it themselves instead of expecting this man to take care of everything for them with the congress.
Do it themselves. Go talk to and demand congress.
geez.
Anyway, in the background of all of this is these insidious little snakes like Zazzle and other freaks who want this president to be murdered. They are not even hiding it. They are brazzenly broadcasting it and no one seems to be very shocked, alarmed or care.
The press ho hums over this and never talks about it. The right is allowed to do whatever. From teabaggers and their clown act, to Palin being promoted as a serious politician!, to rightwinger fringe freaks being presented as legit.
The only time we are even noticed is when people like Arrianna Huffington is having her front page with negative headlines about Obama (suddenly as media darling since she began that) to Jane Hamshire of FDL being taken seriously only since she has been trashing the president.
Yet, the fringe right has been showered with attention and treated as mainstream.
and we get this shit without any alarm.
We have Dick and his daughter Liz attacking this president and they are feted as conquering heroes. I remember when Gore said something negative about iraq and was lambasted and the pundits shocked by his rude behavior.
I am sick of double standards. I am sick of it being okay to threaten the life of this president. I am sick of everything being okay if you are from the right and expect to shut the F up if you are from the left.
In the meantime our president, again, is having his life publicly threatened and I guess that is perfectly fine.