ABC News Airs Some Video of Shooting Victim‘s ’Death Threat’ Arrest
- Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:39am by
Meredith Jessup
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As we reported Saturday, Tucson shooting victim J. Eric Fuller was arrested following the taping of an ABC News “town hall” event hosted by Christiane Amanpour for making a death threat. On Sunday morning, ABC News aired the event and included a brief mention of Fuller’s outburst and arrest…though without quoting what Fuller actually said.
Fuller’s alleged death threat remark came as Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries spoke about how the nation‘s gun laws weren’t to blame for last weekend’s shooting massacre that left six dead and more than a dozen others wounded. As Humphries begins to talk about his neighbor who died in the incident, a man’s voice — possibly Fuller’s — can be heard mumbling in the background, drawing the attention of others in the audience. It’s not entirely clear, but this bit of audio may be the “you’re dead” threat Fuller reportedly made during Humphries’ remarks (around :50):
After the event, Amanpour noted Fuller’s arrest:
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Goohuman
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:16pmChristiane Anampour, when you say someone has been shot twice and all he has is what looks like a bruised knee, I wonder if anything else you say is not complete BS.
Report Post »thetang
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:15pmI couldn’t see anything that Trent Humphries said to upset Fuller? Sounds like the truth speaking from the Tea Party,but I guess the truth is something the Liebs don’t quite understand yet? I keep hope alive by believing in Freedom for us all,reguardless of which party you belong too! Lets try a little harder,ok?
Report Post »REVENANT
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:14pmThis violent leftist, Fuller, is no less dangerous than Loughner.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:12pmHow shockingly uncivil! ABC was complicit in promoting Fuller’s statement to pander to their MSM audience. Keep it up, our strategy is working as the liberals will eventually “eat their own”.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:09pmAmanpour is another America hater… not even FROM America SHE IS FROM IRAN, and given a platform from which to tear us down.
Report Post »TPARTY RADIO
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:19pmAmanpour strikes me as totally enveloped by razor stubble, and bitter about it.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:06pmI would like to dedicate this song to
THE VIOLENT LEFT-WING NUT JOB
who jumped up in a peaceful discusion
and started threatening to kill people
on national tv.
This ones for you J.Eric Fuller
Now I’ve been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
I’ve been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Something good’s bound to come
For out on the edge of darkness
There runs the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again
Peace train sounding louder
Report Post »Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train
Peace train’s a holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
This is the peace train
Jack007
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:06pmDon’t Ever Let a Crisis Go To Waste:
Report Post »These liberal bastards are despicable, they don’t care who they harm as long as they believe their blather will help their progressive agenda – I think they are really MOOSLIMS
82dAirborne
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:04pmI have been thinking a great deal about our right to free speech in the last week or so. Probably the most important of them all. I believe it should apply equally to all Americans. Yes – There is the “Don’t yell FIRE!!” in a crowded building kind of exceptions. But those are very few. If you think about it: without free speech we really wouldn’t have much else that we have come to prize.
Did you know that on the floor s of our congress you can say ANYTHING with absolute impunity? That’s correct. You may accuse your adversaries (and their parents) of having a sexual interest in livestock if you care to. You are perfectly within the rules to say something like “I am going to murder the Honorable Representative from California with a candlestick in the library.” Perfectly okay. No repercussions whatsoever.
Sarah Palin defends herself against accusations that she is, at least partially, responsible for a mass killing and she is somehow spewing hateful rhetoric. Most of the patently false accusations coming from folks who enjoy not only our freedom of speech but also freedom of the press and the people who are protected by virtue of being elected officials. Somehow she is the bad actor????
Whatever is fair for one should be fair for all.
Report Post »zwolfe12
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:59amAnd how many people won’t hear this because they believe the left.
Report Post »drhunt
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:59amThe liberal left continues to melt down. They are seriously trying to cover their tracks on their shoddy “journalism” and failed attempts to connect Jared with right wing extremism. Olbermann, with a straight face, had that idiot, Mark Potok, try to convince the few viewers that actually watch that show, that the shooter was a right wing nutjob. Krugman is still hiding in his Ivory Tower, and the liberals are still trying to chisel off the dried egg on their faces. They have been exposed…BIG TIME. They have lost the middle of the political spectrum in this country by not only losing the argument, but by losing the few shreds of credibility they had remaining.
But…I predicted it almost two years ago, and the dots weren’t that hard to connect…for me, at least.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:28pmI have to disagree with one point. I don’t think the drive-by media are trying to cover their tracks at all. They feel they are elite, know it all, and pat each other on the backs for a job well done every time they slam the right, false accustation or not. This latest episode of “lib’s gone wild” will just be ignored as they feel it has no relevance.
Report Post »dantom
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:58amThe media will be all over this like flies on sh–. JOKING
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:58amSince this Fuller is a supporter of Gibbons, right ?? then if Gibbons did something or voted on something he didn’t agree with, would he act just like Jared Loughner ??
As we know, Jared Loughner once met with the congresswoman and she said something he didn’t agree with or approve us. Was Jared a follower of the congresswoman as this Fuller is and get upset with her, as this Fuller does when he doesn’t agree with gun laws, then decide he was going to act out the way he did, just this Fuller may very well do one day ??
Do you get my point… What happens when the Congresswoman does or says something this avid follower of hers, Fuller doesn’t agree with, does he then feel betrayed and be the next Jared Loughner ??
For those of you have seen the post on KROS , from :Blue Boy”, who felt she had really betrayed him and the the congresswoman was now dead to him ( or her)… this is how these wacko’s of the left work. The craziest ones are usually the most active supporters. This Fueller seems to be one of them, as I am wondering if Loughner wasn’t one of those in the past as well ?? What do you think …
Report Post »PatriotRider
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:57amLiberalism must be a mental disorder as evidenced by two people, one on each side of that gun, undergoing mental evals. By the way, Mr. Fuller, if indeed you did say, “You’re dead”, I would advise that when you do get back out on the street that you avoid any Tea Party events. We tend to take people at their word.
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:57amAnd so it begins………..
Report Post »Vince Foster
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:57am.
Report Post »This particular individual belongs in a Mental Institution, along with the rest of the Democratic Party.
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JohnFourteenSix
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:57amIsn’t this the same guy?
Tucson shooting victim blames Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sharron Angle
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47620.html#ixzz1B4DpAo9Q
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:01pmYes it is
aaaaahahhahaha
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:55amIt‘s interesting that we can now be so sensitive to ’conversational context‘ yet we can’t use the word “terrorist” to describe terrorists or that we use the word to describe any and all acts that produce unexpected emotional disturbance outside of the normal analog of day to day life. We seem to have lost our ability to actually identify and describe our own behaviors. And words now have a criminal consequence outside of the false yelling of “fire” inside a crowded room.
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:55amWhy is it that there was no mention of this on todays program? When Sarah Palin spoke about the hate and vitriol statements made against her, it was all over before the comments had finished being posted. Maybe we should write and email them and ask them why. This is supposed to be a news show not a propaganda broadcast. “the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat [lowest social or economic class] to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.” For what purpose? To “abolish private property”; to “wrest, by degrees, capital from the bourgeoisie [middle class]”; to “centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State” (Karl Marx). Is this what we can expect from our MSM to inform us?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:55amI believe in freedom of speech, but words carry meaning and while Eric Fuller was one of the victims of the murderous assault, so was Trent Humphries’ friend. So, I don’t think it should be framed as Trent Humphries of the Tea Party speaking, but Trent Humphries, friend of a victim. However, Eric Fuller then actively threatened Humphries – and at that point, he crossed a line.
After Fuller was escorted from the building, there are reports that he was still screaming things, which resulted in his being taken to a mental health facility rather than to the station for booking. It was clear to the officers that something was awry. Fuller had also gone to the home of the shooter’s parents and spoken with the news crews, which is his right to do so.
I hope that Fuller gets the help he so obviously needs.
Report Post »Bunnie
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:54amMSNBC Hypocrisy Test starring Rachel Maddow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oQ7r5ivupTU
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/msnbc-hypocrisy-test-starring-rachel-maddow/
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:30pmThat was infuriating….Rachael Maddow? this GUY is dangerous. Thats why MSNBC is a rating disaster. guys like Maddow and his big brother Olbermann. What was that? Maddow is a female?
Report Post »WOW I couldnt tell. Honestly.
Carl1
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:16pm***** Madcow couldn’t tell the truth is she had to. Only the lefty nuts believe they **** they spew
Report Post »deskpilot
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:53amI’d be willing to bet that the 18 hrs that this was in the non- LSM markets, that it brought some pressure to bear on ABC to come clean in a re-edit during the overnight or this morning.
Report Post »Editting by omission, but still by-and-large correct.
chuck
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:52amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty3_UJSGt3c
Report Post »PatriotRider
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:02pmNice “Look! A squirrel!” move Chuck.
Report Post »Whats up with that
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:49amWould it have hurt Amanpour and ABC to actually state what the man shouted?…They just couldn’t bring themselves to report the news, the full story…Same on you…
Report Post »zwolfe12
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:58amI‘m sure that the mass media won’t report this. It’s only news if a democrat is threatened or injured.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:04pmYes, it would have hurt. The MSM maintains violence comes only from the Right, and this would have wiped out (as in a stain) that entire meme. Then it might be incumbent on ABC to dig deeper, like to Fuller’s webpages. Those pages reveal a man seriously unhinged, released from the military for ‘non-physical’ disability. In other words, a Section 8 discharge. That would call into greater question the whole idea the shootings were the fault of Palin & Co.
No way would Amanpour and ABC allow that. Hence, the ‘creative editing’ of yesterday’s incident. Heck, far as I know, ABC never mentioned the threat was made against a Tea Party member.
Report Post »francesp44
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:55pmDoes anyone in the audiance have a video of the meeting or were they told that they could not record it? That way we could see for ourselves what actually happened.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:49amSeems so many of you hit the nail on the head days ago, with your comments about this guy Fuller. Just one more case in point, that it’s the libs who are violent and/or nuts. Of course it must be Beck or Palin’s fault, and this tea party guy with all his non-violent rhetoric was just too much for him to take.
Report Post »Whats up with that
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:47amAdd your comments
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:16pmThey had to report or they would have lost even more credibility, but the report was kept to a minimum. http://guerillatics.com
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:37pmCan you imagine how much news coverage this would be getting if it had been a Tea party member arrested for making similar statements? You wouldn’t be able to watch television for: “We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important news bulletin. A Tea party member has just been arrested for threatening the life of someone during a peaceful town hall meeting! We take you live to Tucson, Arizona!”
Report Post »So
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:01pmAt least he was arrested for the threat.
That will really play into the left’s agenda on stifling speech!
Oh wait, the democrats only want to stifle speech on the right.
Nevermind.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:37pmIn the case of Fuller here we need to also consider he is a victim of the shooter, a lone nutcase (the shooter) injured him bodily. Sometimes the stress and trauma of such events take much time and effort to deal fully with; and he seems to now see the Tea Party as the cause and focus of why he was injured – instead of the shooter.
I will not excuse threats being made by anyone; just let us hear the full status of his mental health and see how that comes into play.
Maybe a second such shooting tragedy can be, or has been averted.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:39pm@Hobo
Right, the news would have been raging across the net and the news for hours untold and non stop with so called ‘experts’ and ‘insiders who know nothing’ coming togeather.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:29pmHis mental capacity isn’t compromised as a result of the shooting. That would cause him to have rage, but it doesn’t make you suddenly believe nonsensical conspiracy theories. If it was the result of the shooting his rage would be directed at the shooter, but it’s not. It’s directed at who the socialist media told him to direct it at.
It’s not the same thing as two parents bickering and blaming each other for their child dissapearing. This guy had to actually make the choice to go out and stalk people. He’s clearly mentally unstable but it has nothing to do with the shooting.
Report Post »rhulburd
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:54amYes, Sad and Amazing… Doesn’t ABC have the footage of the threat and I do not think the TeaParty member said anything wrong whatsoever…
Reade
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:57amaAAAAAHAHHHAHAAHHAAAAA
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:58amAs we can see…more hypocricy from the left. I can’t help but notice how MSLSD and the mutants that dwell within are quiet about this. It is their hate speech that has caused these threats….
It is sad. Liberalism is a mental disorder
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:03pmABC = American Broadcast Censors
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:07pmI have to admit I was really surprised that ABC reported a death threat on a member of the Tea Party, by a victim of the shooting. Are they afraid of Fox pointing out their media bias?
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:16pm@Tiny – great point. The msm is so quick to blame right-wing rhetoric as an excuse for people to turn violent, yet they flood the air with these negative comments about the Tea Party constantly. It is only a matter of time before a loon somewhere enganges in violence against a prominent Tea Party member. I’m guessing the coverage of that story, when it happens, will not be about rhetoric from the left.
The Tucson shooter didn’t pay attention to any media, yet right wing politics is to blame.
Mr. Fuller was a democrat who worked on getting a congresswoman elected, yet making a death threat against someone from thier rival party has no political significance….
wha????
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:22pmOnly two people we can blame this tragedy on. Bill Clinton and Roy Rodgers.When former President Clinton was asked recently who his favorite past President[s] were,he said John Kennedy because he was a straight shooter.Then there’s Roy who named his horse Trigger and dog Bullet.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:22pmWhy you ask? Because quite simply he is stupid. The AZ shooter is clearly crazy as is evidenced by his word salad and his red g-string, but this guy is a dupe of the left. He a dummy, a dope, a tool, a useful idiot. http://guerillatics.com
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:29pmYep ABC= Absolute Bull Crap..!!!!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:34pmI believe in freedom of speech, but words carry meaning and while Eric Fuller was one of the victims of the murderous assault, so was Trent Humphries’ friend. So, I don’t think it should be framed as Trent Humphries of the Tea Party speaking, but Trent Humphries, friend of a victim. However, Eric Fuller then actively threatened Humphries – and at that point, he crossed a line.
After Fuller was escorted from the building, there are reports that he was still screaming things, which resulted in his being taken to a mental health facility rather than to the station for booking. It was clear to the officers that something was awry. Fuller had also gone to the home of the shooter’s parents and spoken with the news crews, which is his right to do so.
I hope that Fuller gets the help he so obviously needs.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:40pmI forced myself to watch the program to see for myself if ABC would show the comment or not. Knowing where Fuller was seated I watched what his actions were during the whole time. You could see he was just angry and focused. This guy is a time bomb waiting to go off.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:59pmThis guy was a disabled war vet. If, Vietnam, they did come home to hateful country (not all of us) and that wounded them more and I guess I blame that mean spirited, hateful anti-American, Jane Fonda for this man going off the deep end. There, I said it. If there is anyone in America I consider anti-American, it’s Jane Fonda. Don’t buy her new exercise program, go to a gym instead. Stop this un-american woman before she hurts us again. This Tucson man is proof of their mental attitude.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:14pmThe left wing media has blown this way out of proportion… it’s a fricken circus with donkeys & clowns
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 6:37pmI watched the stand-in for Sheriff Dupnic defending his office’s inaction. “The law must be followed…”. But Fuller, who threatened Humphries, was being held “involuntarily”.
Report Post »So Sheriff, WHY didn’t you do that with crazy Jarad???
lillymckim
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 7:37pmSomeone needs to baker act Eric Fuller before he hurts someone… he is a walking powder keg!
Report Post »izzyt84
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 7:47pmI agree. MSNBC is really, really threading the needle between having blood on their slimey hands. They are blurring that thin line soo much that I could see why an “unstable” person could easily wind up doing something really, really stupid and then what is MSNBC going to say or do? I‘m surprised right now there isn’t something that can be done “legally” against MSNBC. Some type of lawsuit stating they are “inciting violence!” There was a great, great artcile on American Thinker this past week titled, “The Left Owns All the Violence” (something to that effect, it’s still on there). I highly recommend reading that article.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:36pmRogue and Ironmaan, your absolutely right!
I watched the video, Trent Humphreys said nothing wrong, in fact all he was saying was let‘s no do this while we’re all still emotional. Let’s wait till we can clear our heads and have a rational debate.
Seems to me the threat was made early on when he was identified as a Tea Partier. I don’t believe it had anything to do with what he said but rather who he was.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 11:37amI watched this whole piece Sunday and I noticed he was about the only one who did not get asked any questions by the host Amanpour. Now if I was a sensitive Dem, had gotten shot, had been a part of some national tragedy, I think I would have become a bit agitated as Amanpour put it. SO what does the guy do. He decides he needs to be heard out of anger. I really do believe the media may have overlooked him on purpose because they had prior knowledge that he went to the parents home and the media confronted him there. I also believe had she reached out to him and let him have some air time, he may not have gone off the way he did. I am applying the same logic to this man that they applied with a broader brush to the Right however this is a bit different, we have a specific issue right in front of us and the whole purpose of this forum is meant to reconcile what happened and try to get some healing. The media failed at this and this is the proof. Just applying how they (the Left) work these things out. He in the end is responsible, left out or not.
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