On Saturday, Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries was threatened during a live town hall meeting. The event was hosted by ABC. While Trent was speaking, an audience member, leftist Eric Fuller, screamed, “Trent Humphries, you’re dead!” Fuller was arrested and escorted from the meeting. On the way out the door, this leftist hero screamed again, “You’re all whores.”

ABC news scrubbed the incident and arrest from their segment.

However, FOX News and several local stations were able to get video of Fuller’s arrest.

But, today during ABC’s presentation on This Week they scrubbed this entire event from their audience with exception of a slight mention at the end of their segment. Of course, they forgot to mention that it was the local Tea Party leader who was threatened with death by a local far left activist.

Here is the transcript from “This Week” this morning.

AMANPOUR: Congressman, the lady back there told David Muir that it’s time to have an honest debate in this community and perhaps in the country about this. Is that possible on this issue?

REP. RAUL GRIJALVA: I think we have to have this debate. This should be possible. As painful as that debate might be to some, it is essential. We have to talk about the issue of access. And that’s not undercutting the second amendment at all, but who? And then we have to talk about, I think, munitions, the magazine, the caliber. These are all fair discussions to have now. MUIR: Christiane, Trent Humphries is a Tea Party member and I’m curious, Trent, if you could stand for just a moment.

The Congresswoman supported the second amendment. She had a gun. And I’m curious when you hear this that there needs to be debate from democrats and republicans in the room where you see this heading forward?

TRENT HUMPHRIES: Well, I mean, we talk about the other things too is we talk about how come nobody could be aware this man had a medical history of — of that. But HIPAA laws would prevent that. It’s not just gun laws that are standing in the way of this happening.

There are all kinds of laws that Congress needs to look at and — and I think there is a time for this debate. But for what we saw and felt right now, I’m not sure that applause and things going on are appropriate right now until we’ve had actually, maybe had the funerals finished for the people that have –that were (sic) suffered and died.

My neighbor is one of those people. And — and I loved that man. And — and I want to see — I want to see some introspection maybe from the people before the national debate happens. You know, and those — and — and it’s very well to have those things. But something’s going to have to happen with — with everybody.

And — and I just — I mean, it’s — it’s something that where as a country, we talk about political discourse and what’s appropriate and what’s not. I think that — that applies to everybody including the media who’s — who’s — you know, and not in this — this — this has been a very, very cathartic thing for everybody.

Immediately after the shooting to see people jump to political angles. I just don’t want to see that right now and I’m a very political person.
So I — I would ask that maybe we — we have that discussion and it’s a larger discussion and that — and that we have that just a little bit later.

AMANPOUR:
Up next, a time for healing. How Tucson and the country can learn from the tragedy, as our American conversation continues…

Then ABC finishes up the segment with this mention of the death threat:

AMANPOUR: As our town hall concluded, one of the victims of the shooting, who was in our audience because agitated and was detained by security. James Eric Fuller, who was shot twice last Saturday, took offices at what another audience member had said and mumbled what seemed to be a threat. He was charged with a misdemeanor and involuntarily committed according to the Pima County Sheriff’s office.

To share your thoughts and comments on what you’ve seen this morning, join us at the This Week page on Facebook where we will keep this conversation going.

Unbelievable.

The Blaze
has video of Trent Humphries at the debate but it it is hard to hear the outburst by Fuller that disrupted the event. An eyewitness State Rep. Terri Proud told me yesterday that she was sitting between Humphries and Fuller and the Fuller made the threats as Humphries was finishing up his answer. She said she was very disturbed by Fuller’s threat. The Humphries family was too upset to speak to me yesterday about the attack.

Related… Via Instapundit: There’s more evidence that the liberal media influenced Eric Fuller than there is that Palin influenced Jared Loughner.

More thoughts on the Fuller fiasco here.

 

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  1. Look at the body language. They know they are lying to the public.

    Shameless people. And they know it.

  2. Involuntarily committed? That’s not an easy bar to clear given our civil rights, and appropriately so. At least one doctor felt he met the general criteria of dangerous to self or others by reason of mental illness or defect. Without the mental illness aspect, it’s just a routine criminal charge for communicating threats or something similar.

    I wonder if his commitment was in essence a plea deal, that police demanded he go somewhere and Fuller went into hospital u nder commitment as preferable to jail.

    Trauma following the shooting would understandably exacerbate any existing condition, like depression or bipolar affective disorder, so it’s still on the table that this lefty is not typically violent or threatening without an extenuating circumstance like geting shot and watching 18 others get shot at the same time, 6 of them dying.

    Given the left’s nonsense of the past week, I don’t want to get ahead of the facts.

  3. Of course they left it out,had he been a tea party attendee or a conservative it would be running in a 24 hr loop. The only thing we can do is not tune into these networks and not buy newspapers espousing these leftists agendas. Hurt them in the pocketbook.

  4. As for Amanpour and whether ABC would accent the death threat and arrest of Fuller… of course not!

    What Amanpour did is called a doorknob announcement – you end your show or interview and when most of the audience has quit paying attention, thinking the event is over or it’s time for a commercial, that is, when your audience has one hand on the doorknob on the way out, and then you make mention of Fuller’s outburst. That way you get credit for having ‘covered’ it, but delevered the info to as few people as possible. Chickensh*t journalism.

  5. If you don’t listen to/read the lying, liberal media you are uninformed. If you listen to/read the lying, liberal media you are misinformed.

  6. Actually I’m beginning to doubt Fuller being shot during the mayhem. Has anyone investigated this fully? I certainly doubt that. He says he drove himself to medical facilities but is out and about scant days after, although he could have been grazed by a bullet or a piece of a bullet thus a minor injury. He could have just been injured in some other way during the episode as well.
    Something about this doesn’t pass the smell test with me.

  7. Check out the picture of the first caboose in this article!

  8. They’d be running it 24/7 if it had been a Tea Partier making death threats against someone. Sickening bias. No wonder that network’s ratings are in the toilet.

  9. The media needs to fess up and quit with the one sided attacks against conservative while failing to call out the actions of their own party.

    The “debate” will never be “fair” or “reasonable” until the media shows honesty in their reporting, if they are even capable of it.

    The “left stream media” holds greater responsibility with the relentless and withering attacks on conservatives for simply speaking their minds.

    The daily brutal attacks and threats on the lives of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh must end or without a doubt this may happen to one of them next.

    What will the media say then?

    Will they say “don’t rush to judgment” again?

    Yes.

    The next time this happens they will continue to play their same old games without missing a beat, especially if it is a conservative who is hurt.

    They’ll say the “victim was the shooter” and “they wouldn’t have acted out if they didn’t feel threatened by conservatives”, count on it.

  10. #7 Imagine having to wake up to see that ugly mug every morning. The First Clydesdale. Moochelle. Reminds me of a couple of Rodney Dangerfield jokes …

    1) “Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.”
    2) “She was so ugly I took her to the top of the Empire State Building and airplanes began to attack.”

  11. RE: Biased media, on the other hand, I’d rather have a grossly and obviously biased media trying to help the left, because all but the 20%-ers buy it, than have a lefty media that gets smarter about it, slicker, and are able to sway more centrists.

    They’re so leftwhacked now, you’d have to be an idiot to buy their bull. Even foreign lefties are making fun of them, like the Guardian and other UK rags.

  12. The threat wasn’t left out, it was aired. Apparently it wasn’t screamed out as first reported, but stated pretty calmly.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/16/video-abc-airs-alleged-death-threat-from-tucson-town-hall/

  13. What “seemed to be a threat”??? Really Ms. Amanpour?
    This “mumble” as Ms. Amanpour defined it WAS a threat to Mr.Humphries and should be reported as such!

  14. It just doesn’t fit the narrative, e.g., consider this from August 2010: man murders EIGHT people and tells 911 operator he wished he could have killed more.

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/GregHengler/2011/01/14/5_months_ago_black_murders_eight_whites;_media_blames_whites

    I never heard of this event. Maybe because the killer was black and all the victims were white? (If it were the other way around I’m quite certain it would still be in the news.)

  15. Memo to tea-party bloggers:

    Many of us quit watching network news years ago. What do I care what ABC, NBC or CBS broadcast about anything? They proved to me over 20 years ago that they weren’t reliable and thus not worth watching. Do you really think simple-minded and parasitical couch potatoes will change their party affiliation because they saw some story on network news? The simpletons and the parasites are the Democrats chief constituencies.

    Let them watch TV. Our job is to disempower and defund them.

  16. That’s okay,let them lie. I’m a union steward of 38 employees in the state of NJ, and 6 of us are tea partiers, and about 80% of us are conservatives. There not getting away with it anymore. “It’s over Johnny, it’s over!” Col. Troutman

  17. “You’re dead!” = “Seemed to be a threat”

    Right.

  18. In fairness, the guy was shot in last week’s frenzy, saw people about him murdered only last week, by someone who he believes shares the Tea Party outlook, and Mr Hoft seems to think the threatening outburst is not only a reason to lock him up but also to destroy his character.

    To quote from above:

    “Unbelievable.

    The Blaze has video of Trent Humphries at the debate but it does not include the outburst by Fuller that disrupted the event. An eyewitness State Rep. Terri Proud told me yesterday that she was sitting between Humphries and Fuller and the Fuller made the threats as Humphries was finishing up his answer. The Humphries family was too upset to speak to me yesterday about the attack.”

    Well, talk about selective reporting. What a heartless, insincere prick. At least ask yourself the questions.

  19. #14 January 16, 2011 at 12:59 pm
    Khan Krum commented:
    that made the rounds….of course with the obligatory charge of racism.
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-connecticut-beer-distributor-shooter-driver-disciplinary-hearing/story?id=11313457

  20. I distrusted Amanpour long ago when she reported for CNN during the Desert Storm campaign. While reporteing live she used the phrase “some say” frequently, which I took the “some say” to mean I say, just her opinion and not a fact.

    IMHO she is an America hater.

  21. In fairness, the guy was shot in last week’s frenzy, saw people about him murdered only last week, by someone who he believes shares the Tea Party outlook, and Mr Hoft seems to think the threatening outburst is not only a reason to lock him up but also to destroy his character.

    Yeah. I mean, what are we thinking?

    The guy publicly threatens death to a person who doesn’t share his politics. Why, let’s give him a freakin’ medal.

    Pssst. You’re part of the problem, DeV100.

  22. Look as though Fuller was shot in the left knee and back so I retract my statements of doubt about his injuries. Seems like he’s mighty frisky for someone wounded eight days ago though. Must have some good meds for the pain.

  23. yesterday most people here said this was going to happen. its good to see so many people have wised up to american tass.

  24. @23 – That’s why I’m hesitant to say much about Fuller’s threat – he might be whacked on pain meds and/or suffering from the trauma. Take enough opiate pain med and you can be frisky after decapitation.

  25. “Mumbled what seemed to be a threat”! OMG, I knew they would hide and spin what happened, but this is ridiculous! “YOU’RE DEAD” how much more do they want? I suppose if this nut had pulled a piece and used it, she’d spin it as, “playing with hardware” or something.
    This Amanpour is one of the most loathsome lefties on the air. I never watch her, except today, because I wanted to see how they would hide and spin this. I was right!

  26. @Henry Hawkins

    Fair enough assessment for me and as I said I retract my statement of doubt.

  27. Control the information disseminated and control the way people think — that’s what’s behind all the media crap these days.

  28. “There’s more evidence that the liberal media influenced Eric Fuller than there is that Palin influenced Jared Loughner.”

    Don’t forget Obama’s many threats: “They bring a knife. We bring a gun” etc.

  29. Eric Fuller,was only charge with a Misdemeanor,by Pina country Sheriff dept.for a death treath.Well maybe that better than go kill some white cracker baby.

  30. why is it that nobody in american tass thinks that jared was influenced by the daily kos targering of rep. giffords. giving his political leanings its a lot more likely that he would know about that then something sarah palin put out.

  31. “Yeah. I mean, what are we thinking?

    The guy publicly threatens death to a person who doesn’t share his politics. Why, let’s give him a freakin’ medal.

    Pssst. You’re part of the problem, DeV100.”

    jimg, I pointed out that he believes the person he threatened got him shot and his friends murdered last week. It is either stupid or callous to ignore that. He also believes that the ACTUAL murders that took place were inspired by right-wing rhetoric. Plain honesty should allow for that possibility, but if he is incorrect, you would still be a prick for putting it that way. What is your problem and how am I a part of it?

  32. @ #32 January 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    I believe Loughner lived in a world all his own, and only listened to his inner demons.

  33. At the State of the Union the Republicans sitting with Democrats will be interpreted as them admitting the shootings were their fault. Just watch.

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  35. As usual John McCain is all for it! :( We must STOP the republicans from sitting with the demo-rats during the kenyan frauds state of the state!!! It is a trap! They are going to have to stand up and agree with everything the fraud says????? It is a set up! Contact your congress people and senators and tell them NO!

  36. kansas commented
    the msm will over estimate the standings and under estimate the sitters and try to say obama had a bi-partisan fawning event. i rather have them sit separate so there’s no comfusion.

  37. If the Dims had creamed us in the election would they be wanting to sit together and sign Kumbaya? No, it would be sit down and shut up.

  38. #34 i’m not saying he was influenced by either one. i asking why the media thinks he was influenced by one but not the other. i know the answer. one suits their political agenda one does not. american tass the greatest threat to the freedom of the american people in the history of this country

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  40. The local news reported that, “ironically,” a man who had been injured in the shooting was arrested after the meeting because “he became agitated.” No mention that he’d threatened to kill someone at the meeting, much less of whom it was he threatened to kill and that he’s a loony lefturd.

  41. Anybody think they would really show this. That’s against party policy.

  42. ginger here is another one for your list. i lose 60% of my earned social security benefit because i recieve a pension from a job that i didn’t pay into the social security fund. this wonderful idea came from the mind of you guessed it a democrat bill bradley.

  43. John Lee Pettimoore III commented:
    “Look as though Fuller was shot in the left knee and back so I retract my statements of doubt about his injuries. Seems like he’s mighty frisky for someone wounded eight days ago though. Must have some good meds for the pain.”

    Shot in the left knee and then running around on his own two feet, no crutches or cast, a week later? I believe those are the facts as you know them to be, so know it’s not about you when I call “Bullsh!t!” on that. Our backs are a large part of our torsos and it’s not implausible that his back was somehow injured in the shooting, even hit by a bullet, and that the injury was minor. Knees, however, are fragile, and even being grazed by a bullet is enough to shatter the bone and/or cartlidge that make up the knee. I think Fuller or someone has made some sh!t up.

  44. I love how ABC billed this as an ” honest debate “, and then censors the most heinious death threat that loses the debate for the left. I have to wonder if the police genuinely arrested Fuller, or if they just escorted him away for the sake of appearances to make it look like they were doing their job. Given how corrupted Tucson is I would not be suprised if the police slipped Fuller an unmarked gun and gave him a map to Trent’s house on the way out the back door.

  45. DeV100,
    Plain honesty would admit that leftists for the past week have been throwing around malicious and reckless and completely unfounded accusations that people they disagree with caused mass murder, simply by disagreeing with and criticizing them. They claim that a MAP caused mass murder — without any evidence that the murderer ever saw the map.

    So because Democrats have built up a calculated, cynical, politically motivated myth about the killings, we should just shut up when that myth results in death threats against innocent people?!

    It is more plausible to blame the Democrat media and politicians for Fuller’s threats, than to blame the Tea Parties for Loughner’s massacre.

  46. DeV100,
    Plain honesty would admit that if the media and Democrats generally had been honest about what probably motivated Loughner over the last week, instead of rushing to exploit the event as a weapon to silence their opponents, Fuller might have been less inclined to threaten innocent people in misplaced vengeance.

    Democrats are doing a lot of posturing about being careful regarding the possible influence of our (i.e. conservatives’) words. If Democrats were honest people, they would take their own advice. All the evidence says they don’t believe it applies to their own speech.

  47. DeV100, you are part of the problem insofar as you are indulgent toward the murderous malice that results from the calculated dishonesty of Democrats. By extension, you must also think it would be “callous” to criticize all the death threats toward Palin. After all, people “believe” (or find it expedient to pretend to believe) that her magical map caused a massacre!

    Why don’t you likewise excuse Loughner because he “believed” that Giffords was doing something horrible to him? Since she has political power and votes on policies affecting all of us, that’s a more plausible belief than that Tea Party “rhetoric” (i.e. disagreement with leftists) caused a massacre.

  48. An honest Democrat would certainly look at that issue, Radegunda, yes. And an honest Republican would acknowledge exactly what has happened too, instead of believing that, say, all Democrats have accused all Republicans of anything, and that all Democrats are “part of the problem”, because we all know that there is only one problem and it is best not mentioned, apparently. And I think the honest types in both camps do exist, though perhaps not especially on this particular website. So having established that the principle of honest self-reflection should apply to the people you don’t agree with, and I am with you on that, perhaps you might like to try it yourself. What definitely did happen last week is a bunch of Dems got shot and killed, and inlfammatory rhetoric against Dems is under the spotlight. I would look at that.

  49. @ #46 Auntie Madder

    I see your point well. That’s what caused my doubt in the first place, but I’m going with not saying much until the truth is known. The truth will be hard to find out though as medical records are private, as of today.

  50. “part of the problem insofar as you are indulgent toward the murderous malice that results from the calculated dishonesty of Democrats”
    I’m sorry, but that doesn’t read like clear thinking. Evaluating all the points in an issue is the sign of an honest, civilised society. Being inordinately partisan and refusing to do so indicates pathetic, tragic idiocy, and I’m sure we all have seen that kind of belligerence on both the right and the left. With Obama in power it comes more from the right. When Bush was in power many on the left were similarly juvenile and obstructive, and then it would be fair to say that there was encouragement from the MSM. But when Obama is in power you don’t see that you and a bunch on the right are also playing the role of obstructive wanker.

  51. What a joke! Demo-rats has always been and always will be “obstructive wankers” as you term it.

    Repuplicans problems are being to “passive” and let’s the demo-rats run all over them! Well the “sleeping giant” is awake now so we are no longer going to sit around and let the demo-rats ‘Wankers”rule! That is us Citizens! As far as our senators and congress people we will keep that fire lit under their butts! :) SOooooooooooooo the communist fraud can’t turn our country the way he wants it and right now I wonder if that is muslim or communist!

  52. DeV100, only wankers feel sorry for criminals. Wanker.

  53. Ginger, As a jokey comment among your friends on a blog, I wouldn’t bother taking it as serious. As a response to my comments it doesn’t offer a single meaningful fact. That is a very low level of conversation. Looking at the thread about hair dye that oddly compares a washed out photo to a high contrast one to illustrate an absurdly petty point, and the clearly erroneous threads about a jumbotron, I guess Hoft doesn’t think his readers are difficult to impress, and then maybe your comment is about impressing your friends after all, and not truly a response. In future I will bear in mind your total lack of seriousness about politics and the high-stakes impact of politics.

  54. And that last insult from AntieMadder, also failing to respond to anything I wrote, I think “wins” here on Gateway Pundit. Well done!

  55. DeV100 …… I sure hope that you are building your ego real good! Here’s my one and only response to your back door words! Now move along fool!

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  56. You’re right, I couldn’t figure out why we disagreed, and why the responses seemed so idiotic, because I did think my points were meaningful and honest but I wasn’t marching in lockstep – it was so confusing. Now I know I’m an egocentric fool. Thanks for explaining, I am going to take your advice.

  57. ++

    Related… Via Instapundit: There’s more evidence that the liberal media
    influenced Eric Fuller than there is that Palin influenced Jared Loughner.

    WRONG..

    THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE PALIN INFLUENCED
    ANYONE, LET ALONE JARED LOUGHNER TO DO ANYTHING

    ==

  58. How did Fuller’s muttered comment–supposedly overheard and reported by the man who was sitting directly behind him–somehow get turned into a screamed death threat?

    The “screamed threat” wasn’t scrubbed from Amanpour’s coverage. The “screamed threat” didn’t happen.

    That a threat was allegedly mumbled and overheard was, in fact, mentioned.

  59. ++

    James #64

    btw: Authorities say Fuller began ranting at the end of ABC
    News’ forum, at one point calling the audience “whores.”

    too much for you to understand or what??

    Google it..

    ==

  60. ++

    James #64

    ps: he took his picture first, then shouted you’re dead! at him..

    ==

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