Secret Service looking into Obama-Joker fax

The Hill ^

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Secret Service looking into Obama-Joker fax By Eric Messinger Posted: 08/07/09 05:03 PM [ET] The Secret Service may investigate a fax sent to a Democratic lawmaker that depicts President Barack Obama as the Joker and warns of “death to all Marxists.”

The black-and-white fax portrays Obama in makeup similar to that worn by actor Heath Ledger in his portrayal of the Joker in last summer’s “The Dark Knight.”

On Obama’s forehead is a communist hammer-and-sickle insignia, and beneath the image is the text: “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!”

Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) received the fax and passed it along to U.S. Capitol Police.

The Secret Service investigates threats made against the president. Ed Donovan, of Secret Service Public Affairs, said that the fax was “potentially an investigative intelligence matter.”

The fax’s image was the same featured in another recent Obama-as-Joker poster that received attention in the press earlier this week. The first image read only: “Socialism.”

The message made no specific reference to Baird and it is unclear why it was sent to his office. No other congressional office reported receiving a similar fax.

Baird has compared protesters who have shown up at lawmaker town halls during the recess to the Nazis.

“What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird said in an interview with the Vancouver, Wash., Columbian on Thursday. “I mean that very seriously.”

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This is really getting weird.........

[lucias_clay]

So the Secret Service takes it serious when one makes threats naming marxists ?

Does that mean they admit they are protecting a Marxist ?

[SusaninOhio]

I bet money that Baird had his staff draw this up.

I don’t believe anything those people say.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Wouldn’t be surprised if one of Axelrod’s minions actually sent it to try and pin it on Conservatives.

[Dallas59]

They admit then that he’s a Marxist.

[PhilDragoo]

False flag operation.

See also, Reichstag Fire

[John123]

If this is true... then I think it is in bad taste.

[freeangel]

If obama is no marxist, then what’s to worry?

[MizSterious]

Remember the posters the loons on the left created that showed President Bush in the crosshairs, with a caption, “Snipers wanted”? How about the effigy of Sarah Palin, hung from the rafters? As far as I know, no one “investigated” those.

[Fester Chugabrew]

What laws do we have that pertain to Marxists in particular?

[dynachrome]

A fax? Pretty old school.

[Kieri]

So what happens if they trace it back to DC’s ACORN office?

[Marty62]

That was my first reaction. Why would an American politican get all worked up over this.

Did they do the same when Bush was threatened and had worse images than this pranced around.

[Mark was here]

They should have made a movie.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Tracing a fax is easy. We better stay on this to learn where it came from and when/if they publicize it. I smell a RAT, and I mean a democRAT, not the little fuzzy rodent that gets the bad rap.

[steveo]

100% agree... it was an inside job just like the latest BC hoax.

[Rome2000]

The Secret Service investigates threats made against the president.

And when the "president" makes threats against the people?

[Mad Dawgg]

whoever did that one is stewped!!!

Send the Pic No Prob...

Death Threat Caption, Big Problem!

[Marty62]

ACORN?

They will go silent!!! (Congresscritter and SS)

[Darksheare]

...sent by a Daily Kos kiddie.

[DejaJude]

On Obama’s forehead is a communist hammer-and-sickle insignia, and beneath the image is the text: “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!”

I have no problem with an investigation into this. It does seem to be a threat. There are nut cases out there after all. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be another fake hate crime hoax.

[Carling]

I’m guessing it came from a Kinkos, in the Dallas area...

[Fudd Fan]

My thoughts exactly.

[50cal Smokepole]

I'm thinking the same thing. The dems need to deflect and discredit the genuine anger of many people.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

From Oscar Brand’s “Three Prominent Bastards”!

The Banker, The Broker and The Washington Joker.

[theFIRMbss]

>Why would an American politican get all worked up over this

Well, they know the Right
is competent. If someone
freaks out on the Right

they could carry out
a plan and not kill themselves
stepping off a curb.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I’m guessing it came from a Kinkos, in the Dallas area...

Yeah, pick on us that live in the Dallas area, huh!!! :oP

Let's talk about the seriousness of the change !! blah, blah, blah...

[musicman]

"Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) received the fax and passed it along to U.S. Capitol Police."

[LibLieSlayer]

Has hussein started to build an iron curtain yet... or is he waiting for his mexican and al qaeda buddies to cross the border en mass before construction begins? It will then be built to keep us in... not to keep OUT illegal poachers on American Society. Where are all of the Conservative organizations, repubic party lawyers and the lawsuits to stop this stalinist crap? The dnc and the left sued Bush every day of the week for eight years... and kept many good things from materializing... Can't evil be stopped using these very same tools??? WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS AND THE LAWSUITS???????

LLS

[Zeppo]

The message made no specific reference to Baird and it is unclear why it was sent to his office.

Occam's Razor sez: maybe it was sent by Baird or at his direction...

[holden]

“What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird

Brown shirts were under government control. Kids informing on their parents, etc., not too dissimilar from the WH's call for turning in names of conservative, health care dissidents about casual or "fishy" conversations.

Is that what he's implying are the origins here? Could be, I suppose. The fish rots from the head.

HF

[netmilsmom]

>>They admit then that he’s a Marxist.<<

That’s what I thought.

But seriously, it is in bad taste. Such bad taste that I wouldn’t put it past a lib to have done it.

Fax numbers are easy to trace. If it’s a lib, we will hear nothing more of it.

[NativeNewYorker]

The black-and-white fax

Well, that proves it's racist...

[Zeppo]

Also, see False Flag for more information on the kind of tricks that the Democrats and Communists (oh, but I repeat myself) are pulling...

[fight_truth_decay]

Pelosi is the one that told the media of ObamaCare Protesters ‘Carrying Swastikas’...when an X was through it for Socialism. A sign had Pelosi’s name on it and a swastika….the swastika had a circle with a line through it!

Pelosi needs to get her eyes checked and lose the angry Astro_turf language etc..salvage some dignity to her office. She only incites a larger and more angry enemy base for herself and Obama.

Fax has return numbers don't they? The Bumper sticker of the Joker/Obama is everywhere.

Forget the little flag pin/button patriotic sales guy making a living, then getting "bullied up" and hospitalized (?) by union thugs!!!

[NativeNewYorker]

Does that mean they admit they are protecting a Marxist ?

You are channeling my internal dialogue.

[Gator113]

“The message made no specific reference to Baird and it is unclear why it was sent to his office.”

He’s a dim, he likely had it sent to himself, so that he could make outlandish accusations against the right wing. Just more smoke and mirrors.

[LibLieSlayer]

mary mapes and dan rather have their prints all over this.

LLS

[penelopesire]

“WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS AND THE LAWSUITS???????”

That is what I have been asking myself all day! The GOP seems content to allow the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO ORDER GOONS OUT TO ATTACK THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY FOR DARING TO VOICE THEIR OPPOSITION TO HIS POLICIES!!

[dalereed]

“What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,”

He has it backwards, the brown shirt tactics are by obama, not by the public.

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes... and this proves that the repubic party... michael steele and every single elected official in the repubic party are cowards... not just cowards but the kind of cowards that Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington and others would have had hung for treason and sedition. Our side is nothing but cowards and corrupt garbage... dims are pure satanic evil.

LLS

[jennyjenny]

This Baird guy seems a little on the creepy side to me and it wouldn’t surprise me if this was totally made up or done by the left. If it does turn out to be true, somebody out there is really stupid.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“That was my first reaction. Why would an American politican get all worked up over this.

Did they do the same when Bush was threatened and had worse images than this pranced around.”

Their job is to protect he President. If someone threatens death, that person should be prosecuted fully. It doesn't matter who is President.

But my guess is the “false flag” scenario.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Threatening the life of the President is stupid. All true conservatives denounce it.

Hussein as the joker, however, is NOT stupid. Exercise of freedom of speech is not a “brown shirt tactic”.

So whoever threatened Hussein’s life SHOULD BE PUNISHED. But for the threat—not for the “joker” thing.

[mkcc30]

I guaran-FREAKIN-tee you that the obamabots did this.

[OrangeHoof]

Pretty stupid to send this by fax. Ought to be easily traceable. The Secret Service is required to check into this.

It smells a little like the “hate crime” victims that smeared themselves with feces.

[musicman]

"Secret Service looking into Obama-Joker fax"

[pissant]

I guess the SS knew right away that Obama is a marxist, so they figger it was a threat to him.

We should all email and fax the Obama Joker picture to each dem house member and to the WH.

[panaxanax]

“So what happens if they trace it back to DC’s ACORN office?”

Then you’ll never hear another word about it.

[I see my hands]

"Remember the posters the loons on the left created that showed President Bush in the crosshairs, with a caption, “Snipers wanted”? How about the effigy of Sarah Palin, hung from the rafters? As far as I know, no one “investigated” those"

Find them and fax them to Baird. Ask him to pass them along to the Secret Service.