# Death Panelist threatens the lives of Michelle, Malia and Sasha **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380 "2009-08-14T03:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/61 "2009-08-14T19:14:14Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > How, exactly, was he working in the word “genocide” in the context of Obama? By reference to the death panels? 😕 Well, doing this from memory so a transcript may say different, but it was pretty straightforward: “The Nazi regime, which I remind you practiced genocide, started off with an economic stimulus plan…” Thinking about it, there was also some discussion about how the administration was supposedly packed with “Jew haters”. Yep, “Jew haters”. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/62 "2009-08-14T19:22:40Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > TThere are others who just think he’s a pointy-headed liberal wanting to sell out good American values, but their animosity is within the normal realm of political culture, and would still be upset if the President were murdered rather than removed by the Democratic process. Where are they? Why have they let the loons and goons take over and become the Very Loud Voice and Loonball Face of the Republican Party? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/63 "2009-08-14T19:27:31Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > No idea what that has to do with right-wingers. I thought Luc spelled it out pretty well. Your party leaders are part and parcel of the problem, with their suck-ups to Rush Limbaugh and their general defense of some of these Looney Toons. It’s like Luc said, who the hell IS the right wing these days? Because there used to be people like William F. Buckley who would have denounced shit like this in no uncertain terms. (And he would have done it eloquently, with some real fucking bite in it.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/64 "2009-08-14T19:35:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I don’t know what the “right wing” is, anymore. I used to know, used to argue with them. They were mostly sensible enough. Wrong, but sensible. These people, I don’t know what the hell they are. > > But, yeah, the “regular” right has a lot of responsibility here, they’ve been stoking the incendiary emotional fires for some time now, what the fuck were they expecting? They were, and are, expecting that some nutjob will kill the president. Then they will have (remember Reagan?) plausible deniability. “We aren’t responsible,” they’ll say. “Crazy people do crazy things. We didn’t tell him to kill the president. We aren’t cult leaders; we’re _entertainers_.” But they’ll have gotten what they want, and the blood on their hands will go unnoticed or unpunished. “Legally”, they’ll have done nothing wrong. They want Obama dead, and they will manipulate people until they tip someone over the edge and he does what they dare not do themselves. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/65 "2009-08-14T19:39:48Z")
Here’s what I don’t like about this thread (beside it being literally the one billionth thread about the death panel): The term “death panelist” makes it seem as if the guy is one of the Super Villains \*on \*the death panel. He’s not a panelist, he’s just some crazy! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/66 "2009-08-14T19:44:53Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Thinking about it, there was also some discussion about how the administration was supposedly packed with “Jew haters”. Yep, “Jew haters”. Oh, yeah, that Rahm Emanuel, son of a former Irgun agent, is sure a Jew-hater! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/67 "2009-08-14T19:50:12Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > “Whipping people into a frenzy” =/= “Inciting people to kill”. > > As far as I know, the only people who have advocated the use of violence (or belligerence) are the astroturf groups organizing the anti-UHC protests. > [@The Congresswoman With The Crazy Eyes](#): > > I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. So there’s one for you who isn’t an astroturf group. She’s a frikkin’ senator, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/68 "2009-08-14T19:57:42Z")
The poor bastard should have simply made a movie like “Death of a President” from 2006 which actually depicts the assassination of George W. Bush. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/) He could re-make the movie and just photo-shop Obama’s face over Bush’s, yes? But of course that would be considered hate by the liberal moonbats. Besides, the last thing true conservatives want is for Obama to be martyred, for crying out loud. Let this stuttering jug-eared doofus finish his first term and let’s be done with him. Also, given Obama’s scripted-to-the-minute town hall meetings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the sign-holder was a DNC plant. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/69 "2009-08-14T20:01:43Z")
There’s a difference between creating a fictional depiction of an act and actually calling for it to happen. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/70 "2009-08-14T20:02:17Z")
I’m already on record on that, its too early to repeal the 25th and make him President for Life. Give it a couple years, then we’ll see… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/71 "2009-08-14T20:02:57Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Also, given Obama’s scripted-to-the-minute town hall meetings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the sign-holder was a DNC plant. You misspelled “Bush”. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/72 "2009-08-14T20:05:16Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > The poor bastard So now the guy holding the sign is the victim? Riiiiiiiight. > [@](#): > > Besides, the last thing true conservatives want is for Obama to be martyred, for crying out loud. Let this stuttering jug-eared doofus finish his first term and let’s be done with him. > > Also, given Obama’s scripted-to-the-minute town hall meetings, I wouldn’t be surprised if the sign-holder was a DNC plant. Bush was a stuttering jug-eared doofus. And it was Bush who had scripted town hall meetings, not Obama. You are, as the kids say, full of FAIL. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/73 "2009-08-14T20:05:46Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > So there’s one for you who isn’t an astroturf group. She’s a frikkin’ senator, somehow. She was talking about arming themselves with knowledge, forpetessake. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/74 "2009-08-14T20:06:45Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > She was talkjing about themselves with knowledge, forcryinoutloud. See? There’s that plausable deniability coming thru, right on schedule. We aren’t fooled. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/75 "2009-08-14T20:09:25Z")
**Bo** , 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/76 "2009-08-14T20:09:32Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > There’s a difference between creating a fictional depiction of an act and actually calling for it to happen. So you’d have been OK if the guy was holding a sign with a drawing of Obama being gunned down? Riiiight! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/77 "2009-08-14T20:12:41Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > So you’d have been OK if the guy was holding a sign with a drawing of Obama being gunned down? Riiiight! :rolleyes: He’s still have been waving the drawing around IN THE REAL WORLD, WITH REAL ROUSED RABBLE AND REAL NUTCASES, WITH REAL AXES TO GRIND, not in the make-believe world of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/78 "2009-08-14T20:12:45Z")
If someone were to make a movie that depicted what they thought would happen in the aftermath of the assassination of Obama, yes, I would be fine with that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/79 "2009-08-14T20:13:02Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > So you’d have been OK if the guy was holding a sign with a drawing of Obama being gunned down? Riiiight! :rolleyes: Well, would it be a drawing of some technical artistic skill? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380/80 "2009-08-14T20:15:34Z")
He’ll probably be a featured guest on Fox & Friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-panelist-threatens-the-lives-of-michelle-malia-and-sasha/506380.md?page=5)