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‘Obama Fanatic’ Threatens to Fill AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio With a ‘Thousand Bullet Holes,’ Deputy Chief Interviewed

Jan. 27, 2012 7:24pm Tiffany Gabbay

A “fanatical supporter” of President Barack Obama has been taken into custody and is now the prime suspect in the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio death threat investigation. The diligent team at 550KFYI alerted The Blaze that 33-year-old Adam Eugene Cox was arrested in Tennessee Friday on an unrelated warrant for assault. Cox said he planned to brutally slay Arpaio and his family, vowing the Sheriff ”will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out.”

“I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama,” Cox declared.

The following is a statement released by the Sheriff’s Office:

Deputies in Knoxville, Tennessee working with Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies today served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence from the home of Adam Eugene Cox, 33, after an investigation into an internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to light in
October, 2011.

Cox was arrested today and taken into custody on an unrelated warrant for assault and is being investigated as the prime suspect in the Arpaio death threat investigation.

In that threat, Cox stated Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family would be killed.

The suspect’s threats read in part:

“I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect’s postings indicate he is a fervent Obama supporter and that Arpaio’s ongoing investigation into the legitimacy of the president’s birth certificate may have been the catalyst behind the death threat.

According to MCSO officials in the written statement, Cox’s mother confirmed her son is a fanatical supporter of Obama.

Knoxville deputies said Cox has a history of assault.

“I will not be intimidated against pursuing this investigation into Obama’s eligibility to serve as the president of the United States,” Arpaio said.

Listen to Deputy Chief Dave Trombi from The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office talk about the investigation with Mike Broomhead. The interview took place late Friday afternoon.

An entire copy of the Sheriff’s Office statement can be found at KFYI.

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dtbox
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:50pm
Keep rockin’ sheriff joe!

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flyoverbob
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:47pm
Shave that facial ****,some hoop earings and lip gloss.Enjoy the next 20 yr sweethart

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- M1A2_Tanker
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:00pm
  What? A fanatical Obama fan? There is no such thing! What a lie!
  
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- MonkeyBeagle
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:17pm
  BS you know he is a Tea Party Type.. Stop with the BS blaze. There is no such thing as an Obama Maniac. Just like Jared Laughner. Those damn Tea Party people. Always into so much trouble. Pooing in the streets and such. Fighting with police, and now they have really done it.
  
  Signed, Sarcasm.
  
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- M13
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:23pm
  So they caught up with Encinom, we all knew he was a kook.
  
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- Baddoggy
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:43pm
  He will be anchoring at MSNBC next week…
  
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- Bluedog78
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:16pm
  http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-06-24/news/in-the-crosshairs/
  
  Here’s the real story of the last guy arrested for “threatening” old Joe. Looks like this is more election year theater from Joe’s office. I’m no BHO supporter but Joe is as slimy a politician as there ever was, and an incompetent Sheriff.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:31pm
  Obamanites are not known for good mental health…….Just more proof.
  
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- dealer@678
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:36pm
  Holder will have him back on the streets by November
  
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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:38pm
  Justice will be sweet when he is issued his first pair of pink panties.
  
  May God (not Obama) protect Sheriff Joe.
  
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- Fearnone
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:38pm
  Encinom looks exactly like I had him/it pictured! Right on M13!!!
  
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- VicksVaporub
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:58pm
  Who is this guy one of Obamas gay cracksmoking prostitutes?
  
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- darkrage000
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:34pm
  what happened, did Arpaio threaten to cut off his food stamps?
  
  Yup.. this is where it happens folks.. soon there will be hundreds of thousands just like him
  
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- V-MAN MACE
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:46pm
  rotflmfao
  
  Damn, Flyoverbob.
  
  Can he at least get a trial?
  
  Well, I guess not with the NDAA president. ***NO LAWYER FOR YOU!!!***
  
  He’s about to get waterboarded with pepper spray while driven around the country for 18 months in the back of an 18 wheeler and shackled to a chair, straightjacketed.
  
  No potty breaks.
  
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- Patrick Henry II
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:11am
  I wonder if he is one of the wierdos that post on here defending Barry? lol…
  
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- jzs
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:31am
  Bluedog78, good link. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a good example of how some will throw out law and the US Constitution, common decency and common sense as long as they hate minorities as much this sheriff does. This guy isn’t a hero, he’s a criminal, and one day will be convicted, removed from office and possibly spend time in prison. Hating and violating the rights of Mexicans may get you votes in his district of Arizona, but one of these days his balloon is going to burst.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:43am
  FOLKS: Is this an example of the Obama supporters? We need to weed this type out. This sick man and all the others like him who support Obama need to understand we live by Laws and the Constitution of the United States of America. A sick killer is not what America is about. God bless Joe.
  
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- last frontier
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:12am
  Is this guy responding to the Obamanations orders to get in there face! or if they bring a knife we will bring a gun. or is he just protecting the 57th state?
  
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- last frontier
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:30am
  M13 That’s very good, but I still picture ENCINOMS, M.O. a 5,2 240lb black female that works for some branch of government office, Post office, Welfare dept. TSA, parking enforcement, or is on work place disability from working at one of those agencies all the way down to the carpel tunnel braces on both hands with the 1 inch Walmart plastic nails.
  
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- SHOWMESTATEGUY
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:04am
  I wonder how much coverage the msm will give this story? I would bet not much, if any, and the spin will somehow end up being that it’s Arpaio’s fault.
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 5:31am
  Encinom has his moment of fame!!
  
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- MYHEROISRON
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:23am
  Comon! This dog ugly punk is nothing but a racist!
  
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- Jackers
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:56am
  Sheriff Joe is an American Hero and should be commended for all that he’s done over the past 50 years to uphold the rule of law and protect the citizens of his county.
  
  If only Joe could be head of Homeland Security…
  
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- helicop
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:03am
  Yea, he’s definitely a candidate for the next Prom Queen on D block.
  
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- Devil Dog 7175
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:30am
  “His mother confirmed” … Was there ever a doubt that he didn’t live at home in mommy’s basement?
  
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- Mtroom
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:57am
  Why not just say you want to box Mike Tyson…Police have to love when idi’ots raise their hands and shout “Take me to jail please”…I say let’m meet in Tombstone at some coral and have a shoot out…This guy starts as a 98 to 1 underdog, but hey, anything can happen, right?…It’s why we play the game..What a maroon.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:18am
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  Hey, dems.
  How’s that new civility working out for you?
  
  If this guy even read Sara Palin’s book, you can bet this would be front page news every night.
  Hello? NBC, CBS, ABC? CNN, MSNBC? Anybody there?
  
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- AOL_REFUGEE
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:44pm
  Just one bullet hole will do for him – right between the eyes.
  
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- Jinglebob
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Sepreme Cool-aid drinker if I ever saw one.
  
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- robert
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:43pm
  This dork is in for a very rough time and a very rude awakening, and I’m not talking about the length of his prison sentence.
  
  I’m referring to his life behind bars when he goes to jail. I’ve read several first hand accounts of how whites are treated in the US prison system, and it isn’t pretty. Anyone who has been to prison will tell you that blacks are the majority there and they’re anti-white racists to the bone, often using little white guys like him for their perversions.
  
  White skinhead gangs were started in prison in order to create some kind of self defense group for whites. This guy wouldn’t join, because he’s obviously been brainwashed into being pro-black, but, even if he did have a drastic epiphany and tried to join, the skinheads wouldn’t want him in their protective circle, because of his pro-black brainwashing.
  
  This weird little mouse is going to live to regret his stupidity for the rest of his life.
  
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- JayCee
  Posted on January 29, 2012 at 10:35pm
  Sheriff Joe made him wear the pink panties.
  
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KingDork
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:46pm
As long as he doesn’t shoot a t-shirt with obama on it, he is fine…

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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:51pm
  yep, when the s@#$ hits the fan, all good conservatives will be wearing obama shirts…………………….the liberals don’t dare shoot at them{ha}
  
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drago
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:44pm
Another obummerpawn gets busted…….the left will spin this as he is really a Tea Partier or a Beck fan……….

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- bombshelterbob
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:52pm
  I wonder if the Commie-in-Chief will spring him from prison in time to vote? I smell a presidential pardon!
  
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- SlimnRanger
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:54pm
  This cat sure has the look of a mentally ill liberal,he might get a spot on MSNBC
  
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- Macman1138
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:26pm
  He’d been better off clinging to hid guns and his bible.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:49pm
  @bombshelterbob
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:52pm
  
  I wonder if the Commie-in-Chief will spring him from prison in time to vote? I smell a presidential pardon
  ******
  Probably bail him out give him Justice Dept escort to Phoenix and the keys to a Fast & Furious Foot Locker!
  
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- v15
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:03pm
  He ain’t clinging to sanity nor rational thought. The Left threw us a curveball, fellas – the OWS movement has been rising up all over the country. I guess the next logical step was to occupy prison in cellblock c.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
The lad won’t do well in prison,looks way too soft.

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- techengineer11
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:50pm
  That’s one Obama’s former homosexual lovers for sure..
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:08pm
  Someone is going to make this kid their “special” friend.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:53pm
  I was thinking he was destined for a cabinet position with the current administration. I’m awaiting the slap-in-the face pardon.
  
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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:54pm
  He may get a job as 1 of Obama’s Zares
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 3:13pm
  TECHENGINEER11, Oh, you’ve heard those stories too huh? Funny how quiet they’ve been kept.
  I find them in many different places, depending on what words you google, like Man’s Country and others about like that.
  
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Abraham Young
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
It’s OK< the president just decided to triple funding to state universities, so he could purchase the youth vote with YOUR money.

The dizzying dollar go round circus. That's what we Americans created – the revolving money game – we have no right to make our own economic decisions, we must let the KING and his COURT determine where our money shall be spent.

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- jespasinthru
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:50pm
  College is such a bogus waste of money. You’re going for an MBA (Master of Business Arts), but in your freshman year you have to take a basic accounting class. And your teacher, a tenured professor, isn’t even teaching you how to crunch numbers. Instead this balding, ponytailed hippie burnout is wasting your time lecturing about global warming, the advantages of Socialism, and why we should hate George Bush and Sarah Palin. You’re not learning a thing about what you came there to learn. So you go back to the dorm and crack open that great big 400-dollar tome on accounting that your mom bought for you. She had to put off paying some bills just to buy it for you. And you learn more from one hour of reading than you will from listening to a whole month of that tenured jackass running his mouth. Of course, you can’t really complain if you’re there on a scholarship anyway. But you won’t learn because of them. You will learn in spite of them.
  
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kentuckypatriot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
A fanatical Obummer supporter? Say it ain’t so.
Good for the sheriff not to back down!

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- Agnes
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:15pm
  He is only one of the many “white” Americans who is absolutely brainwashed by the clown in Washington.
  
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copatriots
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
If we lived in a sane America, Sheriff Joe would be in charge of Homeland Security!

Keep up the good fight, Sheriff Joe!

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- jeezpeeps
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:07pm
  Heck with homeland security. I’d happily vote for him for POTUS. You see the idiot? Jeez looked as if he might have been either wired up or Team Obama has been brainwashing folks in those FEMA camps.
  
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LogiStyx
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
Your think the secret srevice idiots or our fine black dept of Justice will be at all interested in this goon? I THINK NOT.

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- concealled9mms
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:02pm
  hell eric holder probably gave him the weapon to use
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:03pm
  Of course they’ll be interested in him. Communists ALWAYS need all the USEFUL IDIOTS they can get. Stalin espoused it, and ows is full of them! When they’re through with them they’re easily disposed of!
  
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decendentof56
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
According to MCSO officials in the written statement, Cox’s mother confirmed her son is a fanatical supporter of Obama.

That tells me all I need to know about this wacko’s judgement.

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term limits for congress
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
Google got him! Way to go Google!

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Abraham Young
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:40pm
Meanwhile the Pentagon anti-Constitution machine wants to establish a flotilla in the Middle East. OF course we have a right to be there, we have a right to be anywhere we want. The Constitution empowers us to establish bases all around the globe, don’t cha remember, wink, wink?

And we can go broke trying.

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FreeUsAll
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:40pm
Probably, but, then again, so would Mumia, if he were free to attend.

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Laus Deo
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:40pm
“That’s why Dad named you Joe Dirt!”

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desert buckeye
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:39pm
My first thought was to donate to sheriff Joe’s re-election campaign. So, I did! If you can judge a person by his enemies, sheriff Joe’s a great guy!

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- texrubarts
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:28am
  Money coming Joe’s way… I am so sick and tired of Obama & followers dividing the country and creating trouble and saying “who me – I didn’t do anything”.. Just like this book thing – Obama is saying the Gov. is making up stuff to make herself look good!! Can not wait to boot Obama out of the White House!!!
  
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tmplarnite
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:39pm
Save him…Don’t hurt the ‘widdle’ bum…Tuck him safely in a deep dark cell…so when we arrest the traitor Usurper Ovomit we can put them both on trial together…and sentence them both to the same fate!

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kman
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:38pm
He’ll become Obamas next Czar.

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- SoupSandwich
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
  Yeh, they knew he was an Obama fanantic by the jersey with the big 0 on it.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:02pm
  DOJ Holder will probably get the CHARGES droped…
  This Little Tur** is on their side…come to AZ maggot..
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:09pm
  LOL KMAN
  Czar of OverLove for Obummer?
  Czar of Fanatical Obsession ?
  
  Wait—I think we already have these.
  LOL
  
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The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:38pm
What???? He’s not a Tea Party person???? Looks and sounds like one according to Debbie Washermouthout Shultz and Nancy P!

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dgremark12
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:38pm
Oh come on now the supporters of Barak (BO) are not violent they are peace loving people! Lock and load friends!

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LeeroyJenkins
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:36pm
That was not a death threat… He just wanted to let him know how upset he was with the Sheriff. He was calmly driving to Arizona with no evidence of the ability to commit any kind of harmful act. You are mistaken he is full of the lord and loves all of mankind…and it would be assumed maybe he has great “family time” and “animal time”….Dude is disturbed might be a V.

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Eaglesnest
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:35pm
I wonder how the left will rationalize this……

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:39pm
  He was confused by the Tea Party rhetoric…
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:41pm
  They and the MSM will IGNORE it! Like they do with anything anti-Obama .. pro-truth.
  
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- guardianforce
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:43pm
  They won’t even acknowledge it………
  
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- Netsurfer2
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:59pm
  I’m sure the DOJ will say there is not enough evidence and let him go free! You know the drill, just like when the Black Panthers stood in front of the voting doorway with billy clubs! Not like the DOJ will ever prosecute anything having to do with the other side! Absolute Corruption Corrupts Absolutely! With them it is only social justice!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:26pm
  @Netsurfer2
  It wasn’t a billy club…. it was a short sword (even worse). Take another look at it.
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:40pm
  Tough to hold ‘Right wing talk show hosts’ responsible for this, as they did with the guy that shot Giffords. I am confused though, didn’t Spike Lee suggest something like that about Charlton Heston? Oh…, I forgot, Lee is Left/Hollywood darling, so it’s Ok.
  
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krjones
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:33pm
Pink Jumpsuit time?

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- TerryDo
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:47pm
  More like a white jacket time for life…
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Maybe he could share a cell with Jared Loughner,
  
  NOBAMA-2012 Keep up the good work Sheriff Joe !!
  
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Leader1776
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:32pm
So, how will the lame stream media spin this. He was probably a latent TEA Party militant, right?

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democritusoilder267
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:29pm
All of President’s Obama supporters are crazy or loony.

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- Dr. Joel Fleischman
  Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:57am
  You got that right…
  
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AJAYW
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:29pm
Will obama bring him to the white house for a beer.

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- NancyBee
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:36pm
  I would like to be a fly on the wall!
  
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