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Minnesota Wrestling Coach Put on Leave for Reportedly Insulting Obama, Challenging Him to a Fight
Fox News ^ | Jan 13, 2011 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 01/13/2011 7:48:41 PM PST by Titus-Maximus

An Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter has been placed on administrative leave from his job at a Minnesota high school after he insulted President Obama’s intelligence and challenged the commander in chief to a fight.

Jacob Volkmann told Fox News Radio that he is under investigation by White Bear Lake High School, where he has worked as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for three years.

“They didn’t like how I was representing the school,” he said. “They said I was representing them bad because of what I said about the president and his policies.”

Marisa Vette, the school district’s director of communications, confirmed to Fox News Radio that Volkmann is on paid leave. She refused to say if his comments about President Obama sparked the investigation.

“We have an employee who is on leave and the district is investigating in accordance with the law,” Vette said. She declined to elaborate on the investigation or any complaints that were made against Volkmann.

Volkmann’s comments came during a New Year’s Day interview after he had won a fight. A reporter asked who Volkmann would like to fight next and he replied, “Obama.”

“He’s not too bright,” Volkmann told MMA Fighting. “Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot.”

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“Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot.”

Priceless!

1 posted on 01/13/2011 7:48:45 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
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To: Titus-Maximus

I suppose it’s been like this under other societies hurtling toward totalitarianism.


2 posted on 01/13/2011 7:51:14 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

To speak ill of the king is death!


3 posted on 01/13/2011 7:55:14 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: hoosierham

That’s nearly where we’re at today.


4 posted on 01/13/2011 8:01:10 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Titus-Maximus

That is funny.


5 posted on 01/13/2011 8:02:22 PM PST by jospehm20
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6 posted on 01/13/2011 8:03:19 PM PST by MplsSteve (Governor Mark Dayton? That's so incredibly alarming, don't you think?)
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To: buccaneer81

Minnesota again. Palenty has got to do some real house cleaning up there. Between the liberal/leftists and the Somalis jihadists that state has become a leftist, Islamist shithole.

Oh, did you know that their Secretary of State has ties to the Minnesota Communist Party? Check out the database site www.Keywiki.org, search for Mark Ritchie, and see the evidence for yourself.

Now you know how Al Franken might have won the Senate seat from Norm Coleman.


7 posted on 01/13/2011 8:09:41 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The bad news is that Mark Dayton is the new Gov.


8 posted on 01/13/2011 8:19:50 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Titus-Maximus

What is it about political wrestlers in MN?


9 posted on 01/13/2011 8:19:53 PM PST by the invisib1e hand
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To: Titus-Maximus

Was he charged with racism?


10 posted on 01/13/2011 8:21:25 PM PST by bigbob
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To: All

Here we go.

Screw Obama.

If I ever cross his path I will yell that he is the biggest POS communist I’ve ever seen in any political office.


11 posted on 01/13/2011 8:23:52 PM PST by rbmillerjr (I will not, under any circumstances, vote for Mitt Romney....none.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

I’ve never seen this Volkmann kid fight, now I wish I had seen that live. If he is a grappler I’m sure he would tie our skinny little President up in a ball and submit him in the first.

I got no problem with what he said. It was probably a bad idea looking back, but I respect him for having the balls to speak his mind to that reporter.

Obamalamadingdong in the octagon against a real man, that would be worth paying $50 on PPV.

Hows that for vitriol?


12 posted on 01/13/2011 9:07:28 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (Eat the young, 100 million guppies can't be wrong.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

...and if he had said Bush how would the events played out?


13 posted on 01/13/2011 9:12:29 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: West Texas Chuck; Titus-Maximus
I got no problem with what he said. It was probably a bad idea looking back, but I respect him for having the balls to speak his mind to that reporter.

He should have said, "I'm speakin' Troof to Powah!"

Then it would have been alright.

14 posted on 01/13/2011 9:15:09 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Titus-Maximus
I see he is only a part-time coach. Were he an actual tenured teacher, he could have physically assaulted someone and would have kept his job.
15 posted on 01/13/2011 9:15:48 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: Titus-Maximus
Is Volkmann gonna have to pay for cleaning Obama’s pants?
16 posted on 01/13/2011 9:18:26 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Oh but why do we need a coach to remind us? Obama insults his
intelligence every time he tells college kids and foreigners that E Pluribus unim is our National anthem. Gee every time he speaks he insults his intelligence.


17 posted on 01/14/2011 4:52:54 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Volkmann. That doesn’t sound like a Klingon name.


18 posted on 01/14/2011 5:36:53 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Minnesota again. Palenty has got to do some real house cleaning up there

That may be difficult, considering he's not the governor anymore.

19 posted on 01/14/2011 11:34:50 AM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Titus-Maximus
Yes, soon it will become a crime to say anything negative against his illustrious Emperor MaObama. Wait for Hate Speech legislation to soon hit the books.

It is a requirement for all Fascism's and Nationalist Socialist form of Government.

20 posted on 01/14/2011 11:40:51 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2! (Cause I'm a nutcase....))
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