UFC Fighter Suspended From Coaching Job for Obama ‘Threat’
- Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:15am by
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The Blaze first brought you the story of Jacob Volkmann after the UFC fighter said he’d like his next opponent in the ring to be the “not too bright” President Barack Obama. “Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot,” Volkmann said last week — a threat that apparently warranted the attention of the U.S. Secret Service who later paid him a visit.
On Wednesday, Volkmann told the Huffington Post that he regretted his contemptuous words for Obama, especially in light of last weekend’s violent shootings in Tucson, Ariz. “I would never make that comment if that shooting happened first,” he told HuffPo.
Volkmann, who runs a chiropractic business was reportedly upset with President Obama after he signed Democrats’ health care overhaul into law last spring. “I’m a chiropractor, so I know the health care situation is not good, but he’s making it worse,” he said.
In addition to running his chiropractic business, however, Volkmann also serves as a part-time assistant wrestling coach for his local White Bear Lake High School in Minnesota. But his comments about Obama have landed him in hot water with school administrators who have since put him on paid administrative leave. According to Volkmann, the school district‘s director of human resources told him Monday that the district would be investigating his comments and other statements he’s made about the president in subsequent news interviews.
Volkmann claims the school district was forced to take action against him after parents complained about seeing him on the news. “The biggest problem was that I was wearing White Bear Lake High School hats and shirts (during interviews), and that was why parents were calling in,” he told the Star Tribune.
“I don’t feel like I was representing the school in a bad way,” he said. “I’m not just being an anti-Obama person. It is just these two polices is what I’m talking about.”
Volkmann said the school was most upset about his comments about waning to fight the president. “Their main complaint was that I said he was an idiot, which was probably a bad word to use,” he said.
Though he doesn‘t regret commenting on President Obama’s policies, he admitted he probably should’ve chosen his words a bit more carefully.
“The only thing I regret saying is saying that he’s an idiot, that is a bad choice of word,” Volkmann said. “I have a chance to make a difference with something that is affecting my life, why not?”
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Comments (134)
rwsasinger
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:42amThe Progressive agenda just kills me. Literally. Obama is nothing more than a local lawyer, hack, a political organizer who before public office did nothing which contributed to the futhering of the gross national product or the society at large. He was a politcal “hack”, a community organizer at his best. Nothing to dwell upon on his best day. A “who’s that“ made into a ”he’s the bomb” in a moment of national weakness.
A political point of view; Progressive; an agenda that supports euthanasia has the balls to monitor threats against its most ardent supporter; Obama. Obama should be sacrificed for his progressive left-wing agenda. Once he becomes near MLK in stature, he can become a marter; a sacrificial lamb for the “cause”. In the “progressive” tenant and their own words, anything to further the cause should be exploited. I have heard better speakers in my statistics classes. What fools elected this bafoon?
Report Post »Raider1
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:08amIf you really want to know what Obama is….try reading RADICAL IN CHIEF by Stanley Kurtz. You’ll have a better understanding of what a “community organizer” really is. They make progressives look like kittens. Saul Alinsky would be proud of Obama and the Midwest Academy!
Report Post »Damocracy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:36amAdd your comments
Report Post »Damocracy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:35amI dont see how wanting to knock some sense into an idiot like obama would be misconstrued as a death threat,and warrant the secret service to pay this guy a visit,,I think the idiot needs some sense knocked into him,,,it would be a learning experience for him…. and he would benefit greatly.
Report Post »peaceuntou
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:28amGeeesh
Report Post »peaceuntou
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:25amSomething is very slow about this site right now my post are taking so long
Report Post »peaceuntou
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:21amI’m with all of you I am just so sick about all of this.
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:11amLib State & Lib School Admin (which they all are)
“Parents calling and complaining”??? Sure maybe 2 or three parents. But instead of the School Admin actually having a pair and saying “Thanks for your complaint but who gives a rip about something so childish”. Nope… the school has to up the ante and go even more childish.
As one who works in public education, the teens behave with more maturity and common sense than the faculty or the Admin more often than not.
If I was this guy I wouldn’t apologize for saying idiot, or saying fight. I would say though, “Really I’m not some bad person or some hardass, it’s just that the rest of the world is filled with thin-skinned wussies.”
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:08amIs was truly good of the President and First Lady to be part of the Tuscon Memorial.
>Why were so many Senior Officials of the Administration there?
Report Post »peaceuntou
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:08amHow do you eat an elephant … a bite at a time
Report Post »peaceuntou
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:07amSeems many Americans are being single out losing positions of power dignity and freedom
Report Post »vic138
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:06amThis is pathetic. The ufc is about fighting! What a bunch of *******.
Report Post »Kastrioti
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:55amHe is an idiot. Don’t be sorry dude. I guess he fears that audit
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:54amFeel free to speak your mind.
> ?
Report Post »Bull Dog
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:44amWorking as a civil servant, which includes teachers, coaches, municipality, and state workers, you are going to be held to a higher standard when you make remarks publicly. What he said may have been a threat or it may not have. I don’t know the guy personally so I am not qualified to make that judgement. Regardless, it may give your employer cause to fire you if they take it as one, right or wrong. We had a coach fired locally because he went out and was observed doing 5 shots on his birthday. He did nothing illegal, got in no trouble, just did some shots and they fired him when some parents complained that he was setting a bad example for his kids. This kind of thing goes on everywhere and the only reason it‘s publicized is because it’s about the President.
Report Post »UpInTheWoods
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:42amOdd, you would think a chiropractor would have a healthy enough spine to stand up, for what he said.
Report Post »Knocking sense into someone is NOT a threat. Esp. when you are in a different State. Right the guy was going to hop in his car, drive to D.C. and smack Obama…Right.
Obama is a thin skinned coward hiding behind his body guards. “I can’t help it if they are protecting me”
See ya all when I am interviewed from jail.
America the land of the chickens.
CatB
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:37amThey even made a movie about the “Assination of Bush” .. and Obama can’t take “idiot”.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:33amThat was all he said ? Then we all better watch out or the S/S will be knock’n at our doors.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:51amWould that be the same S/S that had uninvited muslims crashing a WH event for the Indian PM ?
Report Post »The same S/S that couldn’t react to a shoe being thrown @ GWB /
The same S/S that never investigated ANY threat againt GWB, never paid a visit to all those openly calling for Bush’s head on a stick in the media ? And those who are STILL doing it ?
Diane TX
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:12am@ cheezwhiz
I don’t believe that the Secret Service is politicized. They are sworn to protect the President of the United States no matter who he/she is. The man who threw the shoes at Bush was promptly arrested, and it was the countrymen of the shoe-thrower who praised the shoe-thrower as a hero.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:43am@ Diane TX
Report Post »I’m sure S/S is not politicized.
I’m sure S/S agents are not political.
But their boss is political
martinrnelson
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:32amWell Mr Volkmann, there are a lot of people that agree with your comments and it’s too bad about the suspension. You have to be really careful about your words when talking about the Democrats as they are very thin skinned and very hateful. We we’re all able to take a peek inside the liberal political machine when only 2 hours after the Tucson shooting, the left went on their own verbal shooting spree aimed at conservative talk radio. No proof, no evidence, but more telling is the complete silence from the president of the United States for 4 days. However, if it smells and acts like an idiot………
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:32amThey made an example out of this man. It’s not nice to disagree with the progressive agenda. He gave an opinion, it was not an actual threat. It reminded me of the NPR’s firing of Juan Williams.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:29amLooks like free speak just took a hit.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:35amAHH….Speech
Report Post »Bull Dog
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:48amYou are free to speak whatever you would like, but your employer is also free to fire you for it. Not saying i agree, but that’s what the law and the courts have held up time and again.
Report Post »Carrie3570
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:27amUnbelievable! He was speaking in his own words, that wasn’t a threat. As if Obama would take him up on it and climb into the ring. People need to get a grip. There are real threats out there and this is not one of them!
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:18amYou are correct- free speech does not exist in the workplace. Speech is not free from repercussion either. When I first started reading this article my first thought was to get angry because I do not believe that the fighter actually made a threat on the president. He invited him into the ring with him. But, in life speech always has a consequence- sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:27amGiving an opinion is not an actual threat. They used this man as an example to frighten anyone that dares to express an opposition to obama. Did he say that he would carry out a plan to do physical harm to the president? NO. He said that the president needed someone to knock some sense into him. Well I think that obama should loose his position as president for the threats that he has made to the GOP, conservatives, the tea-party and FOX. Didn’t he tell the latinos to punish their enemies meaning us? It is amazing how these rules only apply to us and not the progressives. It is sort of like what the NPR did to Juan Williams for giving an opinion. Double standards, wouldn’t you say?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:39amDish it out but not take it — comes to mind ….. thugs and bullies are usually really wimps when someone “fights” back.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:25amIsn’t Obama supposed to be the tolerant one ?
Report Post »What happened?
He wants everyone to be subjected to his “ death panels” but can’t take a word like “ idiot” ?
He who wants to fight hand to hand combat with his enemies and hostage takers and surrounds himself with thugs who beat up old ladies and bite off fingers
is scared of some smack talk ?
rbqueen
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:47amOf course certain people are very tolerant but when it comes to speaking the truth about them to the public then they become far less tolerant than they like to claim.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:27amObama has been such a role-model for tolerance .
Report Post »Remember him giggling like a 9 yr old school girl when Wanda Sykes called for Rush’s kidneys to fail ?
tower7femacamp
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:39amTHE REPTILIAN BRAIN
Now we go below the surface “reality” of the neocortex and into parts of our brains which are still a great mystery to the infant “upstairs.”
These intelligence centers have enabled life to survive in varied forms for millions of years. They are not to be discounted even if they don’t speak the language of the neocortex.
Again, I will be general.
The reptilian brain is the most ancient of the brains. It has two hemispheres, just like the neocortex, and it may be that they relate functionally to the left and right hemispheres of the neocortex. The reptilian brain consists of the upper part of the spinal cord and the basal ganglia, the diencephalon, and parts of the midbrain – all of which sits atop the spinal column like a knob in the middle of our heads.
It is thought to represent a fundamental core of the nervous system and derives from a form of mammal-like reptile that once ranged widely over the world but disappeared during the Triassic period having provided the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and mammals. All modern mammals have this reptilian complex, including humans.
(It was the interbreeding or fusing of reptilian DNA to mammal DNA which created the Illuminati reptilian-human hybrid bloodlines and allows the “purest” of this breed to move between human and reptilian form.)
First and foremost among the traits generated through the reptilian brain is the drive to establish and defend territory. This is fueled by an extremely potent “will-to-power”, exemplified among lizards by the ritual behavior of two rainbow lizards competing for dominance. These animals have beautiful colors and like many lizards, use headbobbing and pushups in assertive, aggressive, courtship and greeting displays.
In a contest, once the gauntlet is thrown down, the aggressive displays give way to violent combat, and the struggle is unrelenting. In victory, they are tyrannical dictators in the extreme. In defeat, they lose their majestic colors, lapse into a kind of depression, and die two weeks later.
(This is classic Illuminati behaviour. Fighting each other and humanity to the death to impose their will and dominance. Winner takes it all)
At least five human behaviors originate in the reptilian brain. These have been denoted as isopraxic, preservative, re-enactment, tropistic, and deceptive.
Without defining them, I shall simply say that in human activities they find expression in:
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obsessive-compulsive behavior
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personal day-to-day rituals and superstitious acts
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slavish conformance to old ways of doing things
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ceremonial re-enactments
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obeisance to precedent, as in legal, religious, cultural, and other matters
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responding to partial representations (coloration, “strangeness,” etc.), whether alive or inanimate
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and all manner of deception
Report Post »BibleGunClinger
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:31am@ Tower
Report Post »What the hell are you smoking?? Holy crap man!! And what does your rant have to do with the story?
DMcPher316
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:41amit‘s probably not something o’barry would be concerded about. He knows it was said in jest. It‘s the intolerant stiffs that love lord o’barry that are the problem. They see absolutely NOTHING wrong with the head cheese…they will be PC to the max and this guy is just the lastest…remember Joe the plumber?
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:20amHe‘d have been applauded if he’d said the same about Bush.
Report Post »behonest
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:59amtouche
Report Post »Aither
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:36amIt‘s hypocrisy at it’s best.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:19amIn the mean time death threats against Sarah Palin continue to pour in.
To all those who swooned over O‘Barry’s speech at the Tucson memorial: they were empty words.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:26amThe question if I recall was “in the ring” … that got him suspended? Every boxer/fighter in America is going to get suspended at this rate .. they all challenge “someone” to a fight do they not? Choosen his word better ..?
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:27am100 % correct .. sick and sad people..
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:31amTo all those who swooned over O‘Barry’s speech at the Tucson memorial
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That would be the FNC people right ?
Report Post »Their swooning has just begun methinks
butchcoolidge
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:33amThis is just STUPID. The guy is now being punished for nothing. And from what I have seen(I didn’t watch it live) last night was DISGUSTING… that was no memorial service…meh
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:35amCatB, good point. That’s what professional fighters do… they challenge people. Those with cajones stand up and accept the challenge, those that don’t, hide behind their couches.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:38amHow lame… but it‘s the state that foisted Al Franken on us so you can’t expect too much.
Report Post »Steverino
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:38amWhen the time truly comes that we can’t call our (liberal) president an “idiot”, we are in deep doo – doo.
Report Post »Wait – why am I wearing these waders?
And.. Why is it getting so hot, and.. what am I doing in this handbasket???
Freedom of speech isn’t so free anymore, apparently.
Steve
http://stephencharles-poppin-off.blogspot.com/2011/01/somewhat-disjointed-rant-installment-1.html
ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:43amHe better shut his mouth before he finds himself on a water board somewhere in Saudi. Doesn’t he know there is a dark government incharge unlike the playful one of yesteryear.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:46amThose with cajones stand up and accept the challenge, those that don’t, hide behind their couches.
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Those with cajones stand up and accept the challenge, those that don’t, hide behind their spouses.
FIFY
Report Post »:P
touch
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:30amVolkmann said the school was most upset about his comments about wanting to fight the president.
FYI School, don’t loose any sleep over fighting, O couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag much less stand 10 seconds with Volkmann!
Report Post »Mikeyyy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:49amwow, if i was a conspiracy type, i would say that the President is definitely keeping a list of peeps and organizations, sites, EVERYTHING that is a threat to him and his party…silence the opposition…make an example of those who dare to talk bad…come on, the UFC fighter said that someone should knock some sense into you because that’s term he knows as a cage fighter…to negatively affect a person’s ability to make a living for stating his belief and opinions about his government is really low in my book.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:19amThe INTOLERANCE of the “party of tolerance” is as obvious as the VIOLENCE of the “religion of peace”…birds of a feather , i guess!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:34amChiefGeorge
Report Post »He better shut his mouth before he finds himself on a water board somewhere in Saudi.
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And that’s no joke. That despicable hypocrite tortures by proxy.
Aither
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:43amThis current administration has been full of lies so far, so it’s no wonder that this happened. Thing is the timing is just to convenient in every single way for this man to be fired right after Berry’s speech.
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if this actually turned into a public matter that the President would swoop in on his flaming chariot and have another beer party to act like the hero in of all this. That is if this becomes a well known story.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:49amOne more lost job . What would the unemployment rate be if everone against Obama policies got fired for speaking out.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:15amBut you can make a movie about shooting Bush…..
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:54amIf Obama was a “real” man he would stand up for this guy and laugh it off. Secret Service didn’t arrest him and he apologized for letting his mouth over run his brain. Obama needs to call the school district and get the man’s job back (or add another victim to the unemployment list for which he is responsible). It will be the student wrestlers who suffer too.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:20amHey Nick, you’re right but, that’s nothing new. They’re all empty words from an empty suit.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:52amFairness Doctrine at work…………………
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:58amThe guy was only speaking truth. Barry is a idiot and I’d like to kick his ass also. Come and suspend me ya bag pipes.
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:23amSome double standard right.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:11pmHere’s the thing the Secret Service will be quite busy if they continue to follow things like this leaving LESS people to protect the President.. IF anyone is a threat to the President it would be one of his LEFT WING EXTREMISTS.. Why someone would change their words of KNOCKING SENSE into someone because of SHOOTING is beyond me.. to bad the Secret Service wasn’t visiting those who threaten the RIGHT but than when one of those left wing nuts do something to someone on the right the MSM down plays it.. As it’s going the left is making themselves look like FOOLS many who WERE left are fleeing from the party.. I love watching it.. and for those not yet fleeing just bring up one of the posts calling for something to happen to those on the right and ask a lefty to EXPLAIN it.. they stutter and yell it’s amazing..
Report Post »naed5048
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:04amPolitical charectness or free speech? I can’t people see that we are loosing our freedom here in America? WAKE UP
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