I want to introduce you to Timothy Dale Johnson, who on August 13th 2008 walked into the Arkansas Democratic Party’s Headquarters and shot Chairman Bill Gwatney 3 times point blank. Although the case is closed without any conclusive evidence of as to "why" my friend Chairman Gwatney was assassinated.
Two weeks before the assassination the Republican Party, the "Church" and by coincidence Fox News and the talking fear mongers who pollute our airways plus the NRA were chumming the waters here in Arkansas for days on end that Obama and the Democrats were going to take away your freedoms and your guns.
Johnson was one of those gun guys who apparently was spiraling over to the dark side. And every time Johnson spent time watching Fox New or its talking heads (O’Reilly, Beck) or listened to Limbaugh’s hate and fear of losing his freedom or his guns Johnson fantasized about a resolution. And the voices in his head to assassinate the leader of the state’s Democratic Party became the voices of reason, because Fox News, O’Reilly, Beck and Limbaugh gave his actions justification. What a delusional and paranoid man was hearing in his head, he was also hearing on the airways.
Timothy Dale Johnson is just one of 10’s of 1,000’s of right wing nuts who believe and find justification in their actions because of what their hearing from a coordinated effort by the aforementioned groups to keep the money flowing and the base singing their praises.
The Obama Administration has proven that they’re pretty good at this thinking and reasoning business. With the recent report that the FBI has added 355 new agents to protect the Nation's Leaders from the 1000’s of assassination threats, it’s no wonder that they had to take a stand and attempt to crank down the Fox + noise machine.
A congressional report shows the Secret Service is investigating more
threats against government officials, including President Barack Obama,
than ever before, according to The Boston Globe.
The county has become a more dangerous place for our President to live, and I congratulate Obama for taking on Fox News. They and the rest of the noise machine wittingly or not are giving the Timothy Dale Johnson’s a place to ferment and it needs to stop now. Get a bigger stick and keep after them Mr President; you’re going need it.