Posted on 01/16/2011 1:53:06 PM PST by NoLibZone
Eric Fuller, wounded in the Tucson shootings, was about to become the Progressives’ “Exhibit A” in the War on Palin. It all started Friday with an interview on Amy Goodman’s mis-named Democracy Now radio program. Headlined "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target", here’s how it began:
Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target," Fuller says. "Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled."
But something happened to Eric Fuller on the way to his 15 minutes of fame. It took about one day for this very typical and average Progressive activist to implode and he did it in front of dozens of people during the taping of an ABC News Town Hall. MSNBC reports:
…Fuller took exception to comments by Republican state Rep. Terri Proud and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries.
Fuller was in the front row and apparently became upset when Humphries suggested that any conversations about gun control should be delayed until all the dead were buried, KGUN reported.
Fuller took a picture of Humphries and shouted, “You’re dead.”
Some media reports said Fuller kept booing and making other remarks before deputies escorted him from the church.
The Arizona Republic also covered the story:
The Pima County Sheriff's Department said it arrested Eric Fuller, 63, who was wounded in the knee a week ago in the shooting rampage that killed six and wounded 13. He was being held Saturday for alleged threats of intimidation and disorderly conduct and will undergo a mental-health evaluation….
Toward the end of the taping, Amanpour brought up the issues of gun safety and mental health. One member of the audience who identified with the tea-party movement stood up and said debate over the shooting's political and gun-law implications should be delayed until emotions settle down. Fuller, seated near the front in an area reserved for victims and special guests, appeared increasingly frustrated and agitated.
Fuller then swiveled in his chair, raised his camera and took a photo of the pro-gun speaker, muttering, "You're dead," according to Joel Tranter, who was sitting behind him.
"I told him, 'You need to be respectful. You need to calm down,'" Tranter said. "He said, 'What'd you do, vote for this guy?'"
As police officers approached to escort Fuller outside, he turned and shouted at the audience: "You whores!"
The rest of the taping continued without incident and wrapped up about five minutes later.
Outside, Fuller was arrested for making threats, said Capt. Byron Gwaltney of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
Hopefully the mental health system in Arizona will do a better job of treating poor Mr. Fuller than they did with the schizophrenic Tucson shooter. But we have to understand that, unlike Loughner who allegedly suffers from an organic brain disorder, Fuller was driven to his rage by the rhetoric being used by Democrats and the liberal media blaming their political opponents for the shootings—in fact Fuller was emerging as one of the key proponents of that rhetoric.
What was it that Obama said about “bitter clingers” back in 2008? It wasn’t something like this:
"You go into these towns like San Francisco and Berkeley and, like Greenwich Village, the thrill has been gone now for 35 years and nothing's replaced it. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to gun control or irreligion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-American sentiment or anti-capitalist sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Progressive activists like Eric Fuller wanted Hope and Change. Obama tried to give it to them, but failed. So for now it’s the rubber room.
How many liberal media outlets used this nut case for the basis of their political positions?
All of them!
It appears that he was “flipped out” long before the murder of Republican Judge John Roll at which he claims he was wounded. What is a “non-physical” disability anyway?
Uh unless I’m wrong, this definitively proves, using the left’s own arguments, that THEY are guilty of inciting violence with their rhetoric.
Also, this guy was insitutionalized so quickly, demonstrates the sheriff could have acted quicker on Loughner.
Such an interesting story. This guy may be a certifiable left-wing nut job but I doubt he’s insane.
No sooner does he begin to make death threats than I start to read about his “bizarre behavior” and “strange statements”. Yeah, he must be crazy, just like Loughner. Sane liberals don’t threaten or commit violence.
Well they can only hold him for 72 so he’ll be out Monday and will make a bee-line for the nearest mic.
Should be an entertaining week.
Indeed, the machinery was already in motion. It looks like he was destined to be the next Cindy Sheehan. Too bad for him that he couldn’t keep it together for just one public appearance.
This is from an article published on Friday, just before he destructed. Hey Geraldo, THIS is what we mean by “irony”!:
You might be seeing a lot of Eric Fuller over the weekend. He’s one of the people injured in Jared Loughner’s shooting rampage, taking rounds in the knee and back. He’s also a vicious bigot, and because he’s elderly and a military veteran, the Left is going to fall in love with him.
Fuller’s emergence as a beeping smoke detector amid the right-wing haze of the “Climate of Hate” has already drawn praise from Soros operative Eric Bohlert, who issued a Twitter taunt to Michelle Malkin and Andrew Breitbart: “Countdown to smearing wounded veteran from Tucson massacre begins… now.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41204
The same kind that Corporal Klinger faked for so many seasons on M*A*S*H.
The first death in this latest political hubub will be committed by a leftist.
It always has in the past.
It most probably always will be in the future.
It is the nature of the weak-minded to resort to violence when they (finally) figure out that they couldn’t out reason an amoeba.
Most accurate headline I’ve seen yet about Fuller’s explosion of anti-American hate.
I’m not buying that this guy is insane. For a lib, he’s normal.They are ALL mentally ill and most of these drooling morons act out the same.... or even worse than Fuller.
Being sent in on an involuntary mental health evaluation, could be an easy way for Sheriff Comb-over to help this a$$, one of his kind, avoid formal criminal charges and/or conviction. Time will tell.
Sure he was. People that suffer bullet wounds are often on their feet, attending town hall meetings, and threatening people a few days later.
Dude, how many doctors and nurses would have to be in on it if he wasn’t really wounded?
His wounds were probably minor, they were minor enough that he was able to drive to the hospital on his own.
So far, none. No doctor or nurse has been interviewed about their time with Eric “Wounded Knee” Fuller, last I checked. They don’t have time to keep tabs on what every loon in Tucson has been claiming about treatment, real or imaginary. “Wounded Knee” drove himself to the hospital, so he claims, so there’s no EMTs to interview. There also doesn’t seem to be any info out yet on how much time he served in the military.
Dude, how does a 9 mm slug produce "minor" injuries to the knee and back? Was he shot or wasn't he?
Do you think somebody struck twice by a projectile fired from a powerful hand gun would get in a car and drive? Seriously? Was he struck by shrapnel? That seems unlikely. There were no explosives involved, and from the deadly result, it seems the shooter wasn't bouncing too many shots off of hard objects. Did he simply get scraped up while taking cover? Did he purposely skin his knee, the way I used to make sure my knees got dirty in warmups before football games so it wasn't so noticeable that I didn't play much?
Given what we now know about the guy, I don't think you can assume he was directly injured by the shooter.
Good point. Let’s wait and see what Freepers find out about this guy.
Lot's of ways. A grazing injury. Bullet fragments. Concete or asphalt fragments. Someone else's bone fragments.
My favorite quote on this story is from John Hayward at Human Events:
"Let me make this nice and clear for simple minds: getting shot does not confer either insight or sainthood, and neither does service in the military."
Sweet.
When does Fuller get sprung from the loony bin anyway? His 72 hrs has to by up on Tuesday. Can't wait til he re-emerges. He can't be happy in there.
Accomplice?
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