Cantor, Fox News Hosts Essentially Blame Democrats For Death Threats They Are Getting

Far-right extremists are hurling death threats at Democrat members of Congress related to the health care legislation.

On Fox News, hosts Brian Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy agreed with Republican Rep. Eric Cantor (the House minority whip), who in essence accused Democrats of essentially encouraging death threats by talking about them publicly.

People receive death threats and Fox News/Eric Cantor blame the victims, "Democrat lawmakers are feeding the public's frenzy over the threats by discussing them so openly in the media." Doocy makes excuses and blames the Democrats and Kilmeade makes what seems to be a joke about it and Carlson essentially says they should shut up and live in fear and not call out the extremist threats of violence.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003250007

Death Threats Against President Obama Skyrocket

Yeah, so much for us being all post-racial and everything. According to a Telegraph story President Obama faces about 30 death threats a day from the nuts still coming to grips with the ideas of a black president. Who knows how true that actually is, but it probably is pretty close to accurate if not right on the money. Of course, death threats against a president are nothing new, but the number of death threats against the president have increased dramatically since Barack Obama took office.

From the story:

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.

Is anyone really surprised that the number of death threats have apparently gone above and beyond what we’ve seen in the past against a president?

No one should be surprised.