ABC News omits 'you're dead' death threat by AZ shooting victim
source: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/abc-doesn-t-report-democratic-activist-s
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Actually, first they reported that J. Eric Fuller alleged to have made a death threat, then in a later report they just buried that inconvenient fact.
Unfortunate. I also didn't hear Democracy Now's Amy Goodman ever having reported on the death threat, even though she was probably tripping over herself to get Fuller on her radio program.
It is unfortunate that we have not had a public statement from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law center, hand-wringing about political-motivated violence and extremism.
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ABC News did not report that a Democratic activist in the audience threatened a Tea Party leader by saying “You’re dead!”
Although the activist, J. Eric Fuller, 63, is heard on the video of the program saying those words while Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries is talking, ABC News anchor David Muir later reported that Fuller “mumbled what seemed to be a threat.” Also, ABC This Week anchor Christiane Amanpour, who led the show’s taping on Jan. 15, said that Fuller “appeared to direct a threat towards a member of the Tea Party in our audience when he spoke.”
In a later segment for ABC about the Jan. 15 taping, the ABC New's David Muir spoke with Amanpour and then, alone on-screen, said: : “Another note tonight on today’s townhall meeting: One of the victims of the shooting who was in the audience, became agitated and was detained by security. It happened towards the end of the conversation. James Fuller, who was shot twice last week, took offense at what another audience member was saying, and mumbled what seemed to be a threat. Security did escort him out of the building and he’s been charged now with a misdemeanor.”
Amanpour, in the Nexis transcript of the show, says towards the end, “As our townhall concluded, one of the victims of the shooting in our audience became agitated and was detained by security. James Eric Fuller, who was shot twice last Saturday, appeared to direct a threat towards a member of the Tea Party in our audience when he spoke. Fuller was charged with a misdemeanor and involuntarily committed, according to the Pima County sheriff’s office.”
Unfortunate. I also didn't hear Democracy Now's Amy Goodman ever having reported on the death threat, even though she was probably tripping over herself to get Fuller on her radio program.
It is unfortunate that we have not had a public statement from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law center, hand-wringing about political-motivated violence and extremism.
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ABC News did not report that a Democratic activist in the audience threatened a Tea Party leader by saying “You’re dead!”
Although the activist, J. Eric Fuller, 63, is heard on the video of the program saying those words while Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries is talking, ABC News anchor David Muir later reported that Fuller “mumbled what seemed to be a threat.” Also, ABC This Week anchor Christiane Amanpour, who led the show’s taping on Jan. 15, said that Fuller “appeared to direct a threat towards a member of the Tea Party in our audience when he spoke.”
In a later segment for ABC about the Jan. 15 taping, the ABC New's David Muir spoke with Amanpour and then, alone on-screen, said: : “Another note tonight on today’s townhall meeting: One of the victims of the shooting who was in the audience, became agitated and was detained by security. It happened towards the end of the conversation. James Fuller, who was shot twice last week, took offense at what another audience member was saying, and mumbled what seemed to be a threat. Security did escort him out of the building and he’s been charged now with a misdemeanor.”
Amanpour, in the Nexis transcript of the show, says towards the end, “As our townhall concluded, one of the victims of the shooting in our audience became agitated and was detained by security. James Eric Fuller, who was shot twice last Saturday, appeared to direct a threat towards a member of the Tea Party in our audience when he spoke. Fuller was charged with a misdemeanor and involuntarily committed, according to the Pima County sheriff’s office.”
