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Actor Scott Baio sets social media ablaze over Brainerd yearbook's anti-Trump entry
Star Tribune ^ | May 19, 2017 | John Reinan

Posted on 05/19/2017 3:59:28 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain

Brainerd High School is at the center of a social media storm set off by actor Scott Baio, the former “Happy Days” star and supporter of GOP President Donald Trump.

Baio tweeted and posted on Facebook a page from the school’s yearbook that was filled with criticism of Trump by students. What set him off was one comment by a student that read, “I would like to behead him. I do not like him.”

Baio tweeted the yearbook page on Friday morning, copying the president’s personal Twitter account as well as those of the FBI, presidential spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway and Fox News commentator Sean Hannity.

By early afternoon, commenters were flooding the Brainerd High School Facebook page with angry criticism.

One commenter said the student should be reported to Homeland Security and charged with terroristic threatening. Another asked, “This is Minnesota nice?”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: trump
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To: Mount Athos

“It doesn’t mean he wrote that with real anger or seriousness”

If the student had written the same joke about Obama or Hillary it would have been published and defended.

Do you agree?


21 posted on 05/19/2017 4:41:31 PM PDT by map
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To: Mount Athos

No intent, ya say?

Copping a Comey, it appears...


22 posted on 05/19/2017 4:42:13 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Scott tweeted ,@StribGuy @StarTribune I’m NOT the ringleader. I copied this, as others did from a concerned parent as you can clearly see in my post. https://twitter.com/ScottBaio/status/865708116737904640


23 posted on 05/19/2017 4:50:20 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Mount Athos

Regardless of what high school kids like or don’t like to do, it is up to adult oversight to point out the error of their ways and make the correction, which in this case would be dis-allowing it to be in print. There is no excuse for this. t
It is horrible and yes m, as somebody said if this was said about Obama there would have been hell to pay: a trial, probably an arrest and the family would have been sued beyond reason by the ACLU !! tmThere is no excuse for this.


24 posted on 05/19/2017 4:51:41 PM PDT by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Yea, they are gonna be in serious trouble if they take Trump down. Serious trouble.

They’ll never see it coming either.

It will be swift and terrible.


25 posted on 05/19/2017 5:01:03 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Blue Highway

Because Trump ended her High School food program. Now she’s telling people he hates children.

How it relates to this story is that these kids are hearing Trump hates them from people they look up to.


26 posted on 05/19/2017 5:10:13 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Yes, this is what is called Minnesota Nice. Along with destruction of property and physical assault, as long as it is part of a political “message” and one is a card carrying member of the DFL, I mean Communist Party. Where even in rural towns the abomination Rainbow Flag flies at local Lutheran churches.


27 posted on 05/19/2017 5:14:19 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: map

true


28 posted on 05/19/2017 5:22:53 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos

“High school kids enjoy saying outlandish things.
It doesn’t mean he wrote that with real anger or seriousness”

Tell that to the Columbine parents.


29 posted on 05/19/2017 5:39:30 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Lots of people want the faulty types that reviewed the yearbook prior to print fired.

So do I, and then I want them INVESTIGATED. If my near-adult kid sent a threat to the president, I’d expect him to be investigated, but I’d also expect to get a few questions myself.

In this case, there is COMPLICITY here, since they didn’t stop the publication.


30 posted on 05/19/2017 5:42:19 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: blueunicorn6

More like Braindead High School!


31 posted on 05/19/2017 5:46:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Mount Athos

Let him try saying that about anyone at an airport.


32 posted on 05/19/2017 5:49:33 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Yogafist

Thanks knew someone else saw it that is why we miss it when its down.


33 posted on 05/19/2017 5:50:12 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: easternsky

Pretty amazing that, “build that wall,” is so terribly offensive, but describing how you would kill the President is free speech.


34 posted on 05/19/2017 5:54:16 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Mount Athos

“true”

Thank you for confirming my thoughts about your post.

You truly believe that if the subject of the beheading “joke” were Obama or Hillary the school authorities would laugh it off.

I am laughing you off.


35 posted on 05/19/2017 6:07:19 PM PDT by map
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To: Ciaphas Cain

What can be seen by these comments is the power that we have ceded to the media and the teachers of today.

While most of us have been behaving, working and paying our taxes the left has been at work on their agenda of civil/social destruction.

These mid pubescent children have no idea what they are talking about, but are filled with hate that may stay with them all their lives.

36 posted on 05/19/2017 6:13:37 PM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: map

Somehow you convinced yourself that I said the exact opposite of what I actually said


37 posted on 05/19/2017 6:14:56 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos

Happy to hear I had it wrong. I can stop worrying about you and begin to worry about myself.


38 posted on 05/19/2017 6:57:57 PM PDT by map
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To: Ciaphas Cain
What is really hilarious is that by 2019 robots will be picking apples and filling orders at McD’s which means these children will belong to the WORTHLESS generation; oh, wait, that's this generation.
39 posted on 05/19/2017 9:01:36 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

” What set off the actor was one comment about Trump that read, “I would like to behead him. I do not like him.”

Kathy Griffin kid?


40 posted on 06/04/2017 1:08:59 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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