Foster Friess appeared with Lou Dobbs and made an assassination joke about President Barack Obama on Fox News. You might remember Friess from his faux pas on contraception in an interview with Andrea Mitchell where Friess suggested women should hold an aspirin between their knees.
This time, in a conversation about the end of the competition between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, Friess said, "Now that they’ve trained their barrels on President Obama, I’m afraid his, I hope his teleprompters are bulletproof."
Friess quickly added, "I mean that figuratively," and Lou Dobbs said, "You definitely should not have said that." Watch it.
The kind of logic that could only come from an oxygen deprived brain.
In the terms of the extreme right "words have meaning" logic, it would only go to follow that he should be interrogated by the secret service. Sometimes things said in jest are a prelude to the mindset of an individual that is acting out in an inappropriate fashion that may endanger others. At the very least, his bad word choices fuel the crazy train for those anti-social bedwetters that sleep with their guns. As we saw in Tuscon, the crazy train sociopaths are real and capable of hurting and killing innocent people when someone like Friess lights the fuse.
Rex, Moorhead
4/13/2012 12:25:14 PM
Mr. Fries took back his "bulletproof teleprompter" comment but this is only indicates the rights hatred of President Obama. I never heard if he took back is "aspirin comment" about women. The amount of hatred of President Obama from the right is really in many ways unfathomable. Corporations are making huge profits but they are not investing the money in the economy. These large corporations are sitting onwards up to nearly $3 trillion in profits made this year and in the previous year. Because of "uncertainty" in the business community, the large corporations are not investing in job creation in America to the extent necessary. The word "uncertainty" is a code word for we in the business community can not pollute and ripoff customers as much as they do under the GOP.
Why are so many of these right wingers, wealthy corporate plutocrats, that want to shove done an ultraconservative agenda down our throats? Does any thinking man in the 21st century honestly expect women to give up access to birth control and family planning? Does any thinking man expect women to accept unnecessary ultrasounds or vaginal probes when they need abortion services? Abortion has been legal for 40 years in this country. Does any thinking man expect abortion to suddenly become illegal again after being made legal for two generations? Woman would not tolerate this in America. The poll differences between Romney and President Obama reflect this gender gap.
The only reason the right wingers talk about these social issues are to stir up the base and generate income for a shyster who handles the money and rewards himself accordingly. The GOP knows that the battle of the social issues would just go back to the states where most would reject their agenda regardless. These social issues would then get fought all over again to the federal level. You can not turn back the clock but you can PROFIT from it generating cash flow. The right does this by telling conservatives that you can turn back the clock. Where are those jobs bills Speaker Boehner? Those jobs bills won't get passed sitting in the country club bar at the golf course. Can you say "Speaker Pelosi" in 2012?
Rob, Oregon
4/13/2012 10:58:24 AM
That is the mentality you are dealing with on the right. They despise Obama, and sometimes they just can't bite their ignorant tongues to hide it.
watchdog
4/13/2012 10:40:38 AM
This is the only place I've heard about this as well. As far as Rosen goes, If Mitt wants to put his wife center stage, she is open to anything Mitt is. She's "fair game". The first lady has taken many adverse remarks for her behind the scenes activities. You know if she starts campaigning with the president she will be hit with everything in the book. Welcome to politics.
Lee, Albuquerque
4/13/2012 9:15:45 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of this blog I haven't heard a peep about this. Meanwhile, Hilary Rosen's (stupid but harmless) comment about Ann Romney is all over the news.
Linda S Houston
4/13/2012 1:59:20 AM
How quickly they forget the case of Gabrielle Giffords. All it took was some of their kind of rhetoric, and a map with a crosshairs over all of the Democratic candiates districts.
linda, virginia
4/12/2012 10:44:13 PM
Lou understood ...Foster intended to encourage and develop ideas of bullets and President Obama. That is why he came up the the metaphor line to cover Friess. This world is full of Zimmermans....The FBI should bring Friess and Dobbs in for questioning. This is no laughing matter!
Mr. Fargo
4/12/2012 7:54:05 PM
Foster Friess that wasn't funny or appropriate & in my opinion reckless & dangerous!!!
Friess needs to be called out on what he meant by this comment: "Now that they’ve trained their barrels on President Obama, I’m afraid his, I hope his teleprompters are bulletproof." Once again a Sarah Palin type moment to fan the flames of the Radical & Unstable nut jobs out there. I agree that the secret service need to being talking to Foster. This is dangerous & serious language to use when talking about the President of the United States!!!!!
donnajoy
4/12/2012 7:45:43 PM
Foster is a typical wealthy libertarian who wants liberty and freedom only for the people like him. He and Rick do not represent the majority of US citizens. Their narrow minded thinking is not what we need in this country now or in the future because in order to have a democratic country we need to be inclusive NOT exclusive.
Bob Bobonde, Minto ND.
4/12/2012 7:21:24 PM
The GOP proves again that the party that runs out of ideas is the first to resort to violence.
