Keep it classy, America. 730 idiots responded to this poll put up on Facebook.
Who the hell is responsible for posting it?
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A poll was posted on Facebook asking users to vote "should Obama be killed?"
The responses include: "yes," "maybe," "if he cuts my health care," and "no."
See a screen shot of the poll below:
Included on the list of the top 100 most popular polls on Facebook was a poll responding to the "should Obama be killed" query, and which asked users to vote, "Should the creator of 'should Obama be killed' be arrested?"
UPDATE:
Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll Asking Whether Obama Should Be Killed
The Secret Service is investigating the circumstances surrounding an eye-opening Facebook poll that asked whether Obama should be assassinated, a Secret Service spokesman confirms to us.“We are taking the appropriate investigative steps,” the spokesman, Ed Donovan, told our reporter, Amanda Erickson. “We are aware of it.”
The poll asked: “Should Obama be killed?” It offered four choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
The poll, of course, is only the latest example of the sort of viral incitement to violence that flares up when the sparks of anti-Obama hatred are fed oxygen by the bellows of the Internets. While anyone can put up such a poll, this kind of stuff is a sign of the moment — as David Kurtz put it, it’s akin to graffiti on the virtual wall of our times.
According to a source, the Secret Service has contacted Facebook and asked them to take the poll down. And, indeed, it’s already down.
Given that the Secret Service is investigating the circumstances of the poll, it seems clear that they’re looking into who was behind it. More if we learn it.
Update: A lot of folks are Twittering at me that this blogger broke the poll story.
h/t HuffingtonPost
14 comments:
Let me be the first to say that whoever did it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Waiting for dmarks to show up and inform us that polls like that existed when Bush was President...
Can we all agree that there is no place for this sort of treasonous language in our political debate?
I did not like it when Bush was president. It is unAmerican, dangerous, and encourages weak and unbalanced minds to think a criminal act would be a fun way to resolve political differences.
Tao: Actually, I wanted to leave a comment similar to Jim's. But I figured his comment in that direction was plenty good.
And Tao? you were the first one to bring politics into it.
Shaw: Thanks for bring sense back to the conversation.
dmarks,
Only because you are so predictable! I do believe that the attacks on Obama are much greater, much louder, and much more profane than ANYTHING that was experienced under George Bush...
You can compare tha antiwar protests with what we are seeing today under Obama but the big difference is one was anti war and the other is just anti Obama...
Shaw Kenawe said...
Can we all agree that there is no place for this sort of treasonous language in our political debate?
YES
TAO, explain something for me please. Where are the antiwar protesters now? Are they just antiwar during Republican administrations?
SK, I totally agree with you. What were your comments when books and films were produced about the assassination of W?
TAO, it will take quite an effort to outdo the vitriol directed at George W Bush for his 8 years in service.
Tao: Whatever your attempt to make political hay with rather debatable points, Shaw, Steven, and even Jim have not lost sight of the central matter here.
Where are the anti war protests?
Real simple, no one argued with the fact that Afghanistan was a real target and a justified war...Iraq on the other hand was trumped up and basically did not pass the smell test of the American public.
Which is probably why Bush dropped the Afghanistan front and focussed on the Iraq front because he knew the window of support for Iraq was very small....because the justification for the war was never what it was stated to be.
Now, we have moved on and find ourselves bogged down with a government that we placed in Kabul that has lost the support of the people of Afghanistan...in other words we are sitting here now with an unwinnable war because we switched to the folly that is Iraq.
Your right I bring politics into it...even the secret service acknowledges that they get multiples more serious threats against Obama than they ever did against Bush...
Not that you want to acknowledge it. IT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM and I am glad to see that you dmarks are willing to acknowledge it...
Its about time....
Tao: It's about time you recognize that I have unequivocally condemned this sort of thing from the beginning. And also before Obama. And before Bush, And before Clinton. etc etc.
THEN CONDEMN IT rather than always relying on a tit for tat example to say, "See the left did it" or "Bush was treated the same way" because it has to stop and neither one of us can do anything about the past BUT WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS MUST STOP NOW!
It can only lead to violence...
This needs to be understood in its broader context. It is part of a broader campaign by the Republicans to incite the assassination of the president. Whether it is the racist hatred of Obama or the support of the Honduran coup, it all is meant to send the same message to the most unhinged rightists.
What is missing from the comparison to the Left's anti-Bush rhetoric during his administration is the fact that the Right has a forum that reaches millions and millions and millions of unthinking, easily led Americans every day of the week in the form of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Malkin, etc., as well as FOX News and the internet
The Lefties who advocated violence against Mr. Bush had only the internet.
Big difference in the number of people who could be persuaded to commit mayhem.
Tao: I did condemn it. It has to stop. I have always said there is no excuse for it. As for the "Bush was treated the same way" the only point in that was to show that the Left had also gone down this path, and it was not to excuse the Right for doing it now. Nothing excuses this, no matter who is in office.
However, the "Bush was treated the same way" was more valid a few months ago. Before the poll (Shaw's other post), this rally, and other things. It sure looks that Obama is getting these threats a lot worse than Bush now.
Any level is bad. There should be 0 threats.
Libhom: The deposed former Honduran dictator should not be compared to Obama. That really only drags Obama down.
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