Obama Death Threats

Cop Punished For Posting Bullet-Riddled Obama Image

Posted 04.30.2012

A police sergeant in Arizona who got into hot water for posting a picture on his Facebook account featuring a bullet-marked image of President Obama w...

Top College GOP Leader: Obama Assassination 'Tempting'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.17.2011

Lauren Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at University of Texas at Austin, said on Twitter Wednesday that the idea of assassinating Pre...

Will the Next Act of Terrorism Be Domestic?

Jeff Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Schneider

In the past week, as the Tea Party Movement has sought to disavow violence while embracing non-violent intimidation -- its rhetoric has been echoed in the most dangerous corners of America.

Facebook Thinks Praying for President Obama's Assassination is Okay

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

At any other time and with any other president, the Facebook million strong posts imploring the Lord to act against the president might be shrugged off as a sick joke. But this is not another time or another president.

John Turnpaugh, Man Who Sent Obama Death Threats, Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — A 47-year-old New Orleans man has been sentenced for making death threats against President Obama. U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey...

Yahoo! User Appeals Conviction for Obama Threat

Dave Maass | Posted 05.25.2011

Dave Maass

The Yahoo! Finance user who was convicted of making a death threat in 2008 against then-presidential candidate Barack Obama has filed an appeal.

John Turnpaugh Obama Death Threat: charged with threatening Obama

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama. In a court filing Monday, a Secr...

The Vast Right Wing Returns

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

Bennet Kelley

The Vast Right Wing's resistance to change that has fueled hatred of past Democratic Presidents has been turbo-charged by the nitroglycerin of American politics -- race.

Columnist David Sirota receives 'full-on' death threat

dscriber media | dscriber media | Posted 05.25.2011

Progressive columnist and author David Sirota is telling his friends on Facebook that he's receiving death threats after appearing on CNN to di...

Obama Faces 30 Death Threats A Day: Book

Telegraph | Toby Harnden | Posted 05.25.2011

US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and und...

Daniel James Murray, Man Sought For Threatening Obama, Arrested

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011

SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly told bank tellers while cleaning out his savings account in Utah that he was on a...

John Zaubler Charged With Threatening To Kill Sotomayor

AP | DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN AND SOPHIA CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A Manhattan man who threatened to kill U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and said he wanted to kill President Barack Obama h...

Daniel James Murray Charged With Making Threats Against Obama In Utah

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employ...

Steven Joseph Christopher Charged With Threatening Obama On The Internet

AP | CHRIS TALBOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

JACKSON, Miss. — A Wisconsin man was arrested Friday in Mississippi after authorities said he threatened on the Internet to kill President-elect...

Obama Assassination Plot Figures Plead Not Guilty

AP | WOODY BAIRD | Posted 05.25.2011

JACKSON, Tenn. — Two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people have plea...

Behind The Scenes: Newsweek On McCain In The Dark, Obama Threats, And More

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Newsweek has released highlights of its Special Election Project, which allowed reporters to gather behind-the-scenes information on the presidential ...

Anti-ACORN Messages Threaten Staff and Obama (AUDIO)

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Against a backdrop of GOP-backed allegations that it is involved in voter registration fraud, the activist ACORN group has been targeted with emails and voicemails threatening its staff as well as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.