Scott Baio Receives Death Threats For Posting Unflattering Photo of Michelle O on Twitter
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:18 PM
They want to kill Chaci.
Conservative Scott Baio is being threatened on twitter.
Scott Baio, who supported Scott Brown in Massachusetts, received death threats this week after he posted an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama on twitter.
FOX News reported, via FOX Nation:
Former “Happy Days” star Scott Baio claims he has been barraged with death threats and accused of being a racist after posting an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama on Twitter along with the caption “WOW He wakes up to this every morning.”
Outraged users reportedly responded with angry Tweets such as “Scott Baio should be PUT DOWN and someone will PUT YOU DOWN.YOU; your WIFE and KID.” Another Tweeter even went as far as to alter an image of Baio’s young child with the caption “this is what Scott Baio wakes up [to].” That photo has since been removed.
The controversy began after Baio had been Tweeting support for Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown Wednesday. He then decided to post the photo of Obama, before insisting it was all intended to be good fun.
“For New followers: I POST A LOT OF JOKES WITH PICS. They are JUST that, a joke. NOT targeting anyone. Laughter IS the best medicine.”
The actor was also quick to defend himself from accusations that he was racist.
“I’m NOT racist for posting a pic of M.O. My WIFE’S BEST FRD IS BLACK, HELLO,” he Tweeted. “If YOU are born in AMERICA, U ARE AN AMERICAN. I don’t insist on being called Italian-American. Therefore Black Amer are not Afr-Amer. Or that would mean people (white or black) born in Africa would be called African-Africans … Just a thought to think about… If I’m racist, don’t think I would have Directed shows like The Parkers & The Wayans Bros. or worked 41 eps w/ Victoria Rowell on D.Murder.”
Baio then attempted to demonstrate his point of double standards further by reminding followers that just this week Jennifer Lopez insulted Sarah Palin.
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manateespirit commented:
Well, I will say, this is not the most flattering photo of MO.
That said, it seems to me if it’s okay to bash conservative women, then the left shouldn’t get their knickers twisted when someone pokes fun at one of them…and the twitter line was rather clever.
I probably wouldn’t have done it because it isn’t very kind. But it doesn’t deserve the hysteria surrounding it…my goodness, we have real problems in this country…like making fun of Scott Brown’s truck. (Rolling eyes).
Charles commented:
I agree. The response that Baio received, namely the threats, were disgusting and uncalled for. I wonder what is on the minds of those that think that somebody and his family deserve physical harm simply for posting a tweet.
befuddled commented:
dont take a crapper on the liberal fantasy. scott baio should know this is the liberals only chance to relive camelot. so what if jackie has been replaced by patrick ewing in drag.
jenny commented:
And how is it his fault she looks like this?
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Eric commented:
Chachi is a conservative? WTF? Isn’t Joanie a flaming lib? How did those two ever make hay? What, oh, it was just tv.
karen commented:
Anyone remember the left giving Laura Bush any great respect?? I sure as heck don’t! Good for Scott FIGHT BACK.
The LEFT is at war with America and we are at the mall. WE need to learn to fight back or be run over. Time to wake up.
Melissa commented:
What was really disgusting was the guy who Photoshopped a picture to allude that Scott is a pedophile and his daughter is his little victim. That made me wanna barf, and I don’t see any of the people whining about his Michelle Obama picturing decrying the guy who posted the filth about him. Another Liberal double standard addressed.
Tammy commented:
So you give a crap about Scott Baio, but in a few posts earlier you slam the wife of a Senator?
Like Baio is a poster child for conservative values?
You are all messed up, man!
Atomic Lib Smasher commented:
Oh, I can find worse.. much worse.
http://electronicintifada.net/artman2/uploads/1/barackobama2483.jpg
Yuckaronis.
Laura Bush got no respect, and she was very classy, very elegant, and did a lot of charitable work and presented herself as a great human being.
M’Chell on the other hand is an angry “woman”, parades around in 3K coats and 500 dollar sneakers telling us we have to sacrifice and scrimp, and was only proud of America when the Big Zero got nominated for president. Screw her. She deserves all the slack she gets and if the left is sending death threats to Scott Biao over this… then they’ll really be upset come November 2012 when this bitch has to pack her shit up and can’t use tax payer money to go on expensive dates.
End of rant.
Solaratov commented:
Tammy
January 22nd, 2010 | 12:30 am | #9
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You need to lighten up a little, Tammy. Jim didn’t “slam” Mrs. Brown.
Perhaps you should re-read the article and most of the comments posted.
Now, the huffington post DID slam her for the video. And the leftist blogs have already started photoshopping her pix and the daughters’ pix.
Maybe you should get mad a them.
proof commented:
Having seen the photo, all I can say is:
Yikes!
ogee commented:
They can photoshop Laura’s pic all they want but this pic of Meechelle the fist bumper is not photoshopped. It is what it is = REAL and unphotoshopped.
jorgen commented:
Poor Obama. No wonder he spends a lot of time on the golf course, made 153 parties in one year to see other faces and was so busy in his office spending trillions of other peoples’ money.
LisaGinNZ commented:
Lamestream media is always photo shopping Mrs. Obumbles – to TRY and make her look “good” (…?)
LameCherry mentions it often, here’s a recent one:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-toothgate.html
Good that Scott B. is fighting the smears / threats… the left has lots of loons
maria commented:
Explains now why Obama is a headless chuck.
How good is it that a liberal get criticized too.
AnnS commented:
Can’t help it she is just so ugly inside it shows in her face and body. No matter how much she is photoshopped or airbrushed by the media vogue and slobbered over, she always looks like a bull in a china shop.
AnnS commented:
LisaGinNZ
January 22nd, 2010 | 1:46 am | #15
I was beginning to think I was the only one that reads LC.
He certainly does get intense at times. But love his passion for Christ and patiotic Americans.
JenBee commented:
This is so typical of the Left. It’s perfectly fine for them to use vicious personal attacks (see anything Olberman says about anyone on the Right; I’m particularly thinking of the foul names he called Michelle Malkin and the continuing, near-daily attacks on Sarah Palin) to slam anyone who doesn’t agree with them. This is the big difference between Libs and Conservatives. You will NEVER see this sort of vitriol and personal attacks coming from ANYONE at Fox News. We understand and respect that some folks just may disagree with us, and we don’t take it personally. Those on the Left, however, clearly feel the need to personally, and sometimes physically, attack anyone who dares to disagree with them. Scary and unhinged and hypocritical.
Kitty commented:
Glenn Beck’s life was threatened on twitter. The person posted this: “If 10,000 people follow this Twitter by the end of January I will literally assassinate Glenn Beck.” The Twitter account was closed pretty quickly.
Beck has alluded to the FBI and something that involves him, and I think that’s the case.
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nadadhimmi commented:
You must remember this to get along as a celebrity in America today: black people are good, white people are bad! This rule holds until subservient whites are given the stamp of racial approval by the likes of Oprah, Jesse, Reverend Al, or Obama himself.
daryl commented:
What’s surprising is the number of replies indicating they had never seen that pic before. It’s been on the web since before the last election.
avery commented:
The far Left is a very Sick bunch.
DomesticGoddess commented:
Hilarious! I have new respect for an actor.
Aitch748 commented:
As somebody somewhere said this morning, the leftists gore our oxen for fun, and laugh in our faces and tell us to get a sense of humor when we complain — but if you gore one of theirs, they get hysterical with rage and make death threats against your family.
Anyone who has somebody like this in his life needs to emancipate himself. Who can even live with people like this???
locomotivebreath1901 commented:
Death threats and violence against those they disagree with is a typical tolerant Lefty response.
But Baio is wasting his time trying to use satire and reason with Lefties. It just confuses ‘em and makes ‘em mad.
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
Liberals. Aren’t they the people who have spent the last year trashing the looks, intelligence, family, education, career, values, wardrobe, and everything else of Sarah Palin? Aren’t these the people who continue to do so?
With that said, are these the people who are suddenly discovering propriety?
Pat the First commented:
I am getting tired of the “racist” cry. It is turning into the “boy who cried wolf”. Soon, it is going to lose its effectiveness and then true “racists” will be ignored. It is time the leftists move past it.
Elizabeth commented:
Scott Baio is a conservative?! Sweet!
P.S. Had no idea Jennifer Lopez was so awkward and dorky, wobbling around in her high heels and horse laughing. That was painful to watch.
KMarx commented:
Reminds me of that creature on Star Trek – the one that sucked the salt out of red shirted ensigns. Turns out that one was named “Nancy”.
Personally, I wouldn’t let anything with a jaw like that anywhere near me…
sue commented:
Oh yeah, Chachi’s a conservative. I remember him tending bar at on of the Reagan inaugural galas. He got behind the bar by vaulting over it. Impressive.
Peter commented:
Yikes. I looked at the original picture as posted. Reminds me of the line Rodney Dangerfield delivered in Caddyshack: “Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
Dobby commented:
She’s actually pretty good looking…. for a liberal.
Jonathan commented:
But for skin tone I would think she and Willem Dafoe were twins separated at birth. The cult proclaiming the hotness of MO has always reminded me of the one (e.g. Men’s Health Magazine) celebrating the Halle-like beauty of Sarah Jessica Parker. Such claims are fruitless and unnecessary. One can be an upstanding individual and a great actress without being hot. But one cannot be hot without being hot. This should be tautological but apparently needs to be explained.
Peter commented:
She’s actually pretty good looking…. for a liberal
True. Considering the competition consists of Janet Reno, Helen Thomas, Rosie O’Donnell, etc.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
befuddled #3:
Michelle is Patrick Ewing in drag. Too funny!
Frankly, I always believed that Michelle was really a black drag queen name “Uwanna Bottom” that Barack had a casual relationship with when he was single. And later on, learned that he couldn’t dump the guy and ended up marrying him for fear his political ambitions would be ruined by the scandal… and out of fear that ‘Michelle’ would beat the shiite out of him if he ever tried to dump him and leave the relationship.
Now they’re the first couple living in the White House.
glitchus commented:
I made the mistake of following the link to her pick and nearly crapped myself, scary. No wonder POTUS O looks so henpecked. I think we all know whose really behind the TOTUS. And as for the typically unhinged hypocritical left, let’s take a quick look at all of the awful photoshopped stuff they’ve posted of Bush, Palin and company…hell, you can find stuff right there in the lefty lamestream media and hollyweird.
S. Wolf commented:
As we know Michelle Malkin and anyone who criticizes the left is hated. Death threats are part and parcel of the death party.
maverick muse commented:
If Michelle Obama doesn’t want to be seen looking ugly, she needs to practice her own self control. That was HER, no one else, “expressing herself” of her own volition. No one ordered her to “act” like that. She chose her own words and her own body language.
Jennifer Lopez is in her own boat, too. No one forced her to call a media colleague a derogatory word. The joke she was going to say would have been a funny good humored slam had Lopez not ruined it by proving herself a tramp through her own low class gutter-mouth. That was Lopez’ choice to do. And if she thinks she’s clever, calling a classy colleague a “bitch” in Spanish, then Lopez is too stupid to realize what she accomplished, knifing herself in the back, losing a large segment of her fans. Lopez just made people feel repulsed by the Hispanic culture as she proved an agitator, a divisive persona, representing “her” culture as “against” hard working conservative people. Where I used to think I liked her, now I know I don’t, and will boycott her career and business interests.
Tito the Builder is pro-jobs like Palin, and would likely have some words for low-class Lopez to help her get her head out of her big ass.
Martin L. Shoemaker commented:
Scott Baio’s joke was juvenile.
Some of the responses to that joke have been assinine. Some have even been deranged.
I prefer juvenile over assinine and deranged.
Joanne commented:
Some people in the left are rabid.
Joanne commented:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1245303/Happy-Days-star-Scott-Baio-calls-FBI-Twitter-death-threats-Michelle-Obama-joke.html
Here is the picture of Michelle Obama.
B Dubya commented:
I suppose Chaci referring to Mrs. Obama as the “First Clydesdale” is never gonna happen? Damn the luck.
lynn commented:
They were harassing him a couple of months ago, too. They derided him by calling him a failure. Now here’s a guy who is financially secure for life, has a beautiful family, a beautiful home, the time to work on charities he choses and to play as much golf as he wants. I call that a success story.
NovemberReign commented:
In Mr. Baio’s defense it’s pretty hard to find any flattering photo’s of Michelle. Finding a photo that Michelle looks good in, would be like finding a needle in a haystack. I thought I might have found one the other day, but it was just an old picture of Patrick Ewing at Disney World.
Craig commented:
Just like El Rushbo–free to malign and racebait (is that a verb?) but when he gets caught over the line, it’s all, “it was a joke. Cantcha take a joke?” That was not an “unflattering” photograph, it was a intentionally distorted photograph of someone’s wife and mother. Shame on Scott, eh.
Peter commented:
Too late. She’s already known as the First Clydesdale here. Probably elsewhere, too.
That picture reminded me of yet another joke Rodney Dangerfield used to tell in his nightclub act: “She was ugly. I took her to the top of the Empire State Building and airplanes began to attack.”
And Craig continues offering false leftard smears of Rush. Shame on you, sir.
avery commented:
What the big Deal it look just like her.
NowWhosGotJokes commented:
Serves Scott right! He’s a loser celeb with no prospects of ever getting out of the sorry hole he worked himself into by being a drunken fool! So he has to use the First Lady, Michelle Obama, to get some attention!!! Scott, You are still a loser, a nobody, has-been who is desparate to get into the limelight. Why don’t you pick on somebody your size? Ooops! There’s no one that low!!
Laura commented:
Well, I have to admit that his joke was immature. I think maybe junior high level at the most. That being said, I did laugh myself at it while at the same time being glad that it wasn’t aimed at me because it is too reminiscent of those days some of us still can’t forget when the popular and “hot” kids could make us less blessed feel so bad about ourselves. I gotta wonder if the reason for this outcry isn’t largely just for that so basic of bases. Those crying “foul” are doing so because the hot and once popular Mr. Baio is laughing at the homely girl who somehow married the homecoming king. All her equally down-trodden, dorky peeps now rise to her defense. We never really shed high school when it comes right down to it.
I think everyone needs to take a chill pill and let it die down. It was not kind, but kind of funny, and would have passed with no notice if not for the hullabaloo.
For myself, I am happy to know of another HW person with a conservative agenda, and one who has what appears to be a fairly nice, normal life going on. I wish him well.
Peter commented:
It was not kind, but kind of funny, and would have passed with no notice if not for the hullabaloo.
And our side had to put up with 8 years of George W. Bush being compared to a chimpanzee and other outright ad hominems. I won’t compare those in power to apes, chimps, orangutans, monkeys, gorillas for two reasons: (1) it’s a tired cliche to compare a politician to a primate and (2) it’s unfair to the primate. We expect the primate to make unintelligible noises and throw its feces around …
vswilson commented:
Scott Baio,after all this time, you still consider it a joke, that you sent out that unflattering picture of Michelle.You are over the age of forty, and the civil rights struggle will always be a part of this country’s history,when you have a disagreement with someone
of our own races, it is a disagreemen, but when you make fun of another race, it becomes racial,my proof
look at some of the sites that have been reserved for you,look at the ugliness.Sooner or later,you find out how people really feel about you,&this is NOT funny!!
vswilson commented:
Scott Baio, you were “BLESSED” to experience fame at
an early age.Two weeks ago people around the world
chose to put money and energy in place to help someone in need.On the eve of one of the biggest
charity events ever,volunteers, military families,stars
and everyday people trying to help someone else in
utter devastation, and you choose that time to show the world your down side.People who already had little
lost everything,including their parents and loved ones.
You are from a family with a giving heart.Give back!!
vswilson commented:
Oh Happy Days: Many years ago, Michelle worked at a
law firm.When Barack Obama joined the firm, Michelle
became his mentor.Later they were able to establish
a friendly,and then emotional relationship which still
endures.Michelle married this young man,he later became a Senator, and is now President. I know that
we’ve had presidential love stories,but not in a long time have we been “blessed”to experience the love and passion that radiates between this couple.To my co-writers, farewell, take care and God Bless!!PEACE!!