Failed Tea Party Candidate Suggests Assassinating The President and His Daughters

California Tea Party politician Jules Manson appears to have received a well-deserved visit from the Secret Service, after posting on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama and his children should all be assassinated.

Manson, who ran for city council in 2011 and received only 4 percent of the vote, was already known for putting pictures of the president dressed as Hitler on his Facebook page, but his latest diatribe went even further. According to the New York Daily News, Manson believed, “Obama’s support of a revised military authorization bill last week was an act of ‘treason’ that ‘eroded’ constitutional protections. ‘It must be countered with assassinations onto them and their children,’ he wrote in the original posting that has since been scrubbed from his Facebook profile. ‘Assassinate the f—-n (N-word) and his monkey children,’ he prodded, according to a screen grab obtained by YourBlackWorld.com.”

Although he removed the post soon after, Manson then continued to enrage his audience with his “apology.” “Manson described the comments on his Facebook page as ‘careless, emotionally driven remarks that had no real substance’ and wrote, ‘Not including my regular friends whom I converse with often or have in the past and always welcome their comments and posts, I do not believe many of you are concerned citizens. Most of you were simply looking for drama to demonstrate your politically correct righteousness.’”

Sadly, outright calling for, or subtly calling for, the death of the president appears once more to be picking up steam. Kansas Speaker of the House Mike O’Neal, who “accidentally” referred to the First Lady as “Mrs. YoMama,” in an email, has also been under fire for “praying” the president’s “days be few; and let another take his office/May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.” O’Neal claims he really only meant the his days be few in office, not the rest of the psalm.

Obviously the hateful — and often violent — rhetoric is escalating, and now it is encompassing the full first family. As Jeanne Sager writes, “Inciting violence and pondering assassination against a president has earned Manson a visit from the Secret Service…But his comments against the Obama children should earn him a few new titles to add to his resume: creep, sicko, man willing to stoop the lowest depths possible to make a political point.”

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Jackie A.

6:58AM PST on Feb 9, 2012

Wow, what do you say to that? What an absolute tosser. To attack the president is one thing, I'm sure every president would expect some kind of backlash but to include his wife and especially his children is just absolutely disgusting. This guy is a racist, simple as :-(

send a green star

SeattleAnn S.

6:01PM PST on Jan 21, 2012

This is completely unacceptable. Recommending/suggesting harm befall the leader of our country should be on the level of treason. This Manson sounds extremely dangerous and maybe should be sent to someplace resembling Guantanamo? But seriously, it seems any fruitloop can run for office. How is the conservative movement keeping their numbers under such horrible, misguided, bigoted, racist movements like the Tea Party? I'm not saying all members are racist but it does seem to be an underlying theme. Can't believe the lame excuses they come up with for displaying such blatant racism too. I hope Obama's re-election is a bigger landslide that the first to send a clear message that our country will not tolerate this racism and prejudice against any peoples. More to the point, how does one claim to be patriotic and speak in this way against other citizens and leaders of our country?

Tom S.

8:41PM PST on Jan 17, 2012

This just proves most of them are 3 six packs shy a case

Deborah L.

4:14PM PST on Jan 17, 2012

the insanity of the tea party people is unbelievable and I still find it hard to understand how anyone with any integrity would listen let alone follow these radicals.

they are the ones who showed up at town halls and shouted down everyone proving they are uncivilized. they are the ones who showed up with weapons at Democratic speeches, meeting and events and it was the OWS that were attacked and pepper sprayed.

This country is certainly screwed up in its duties and priorities. An embarrassment to the majority of people in this country. Wonder what the rest of the world is thinking, watching these antics from the right wing radicals and their anti-social spinoffs, the tea party.

Brian M.

11:39AM PST on Jan 17, 2012

Teabaggers should be dunked in water until they either sink...or they sink. Just keep dunking them until they shut up.

Patrick F.

11:08AM PST on Jan 17, 2012

The Manson family is alive and well.....er, sort of. Charlie would be proud.

Frances C.

7:18PM PST on Jan 16, 2012

The Republican party with the tea party wagging their tail has some of the meanest, most prejudiced and intolerant candidates I have ever seen in my years of voting. And Mitt Romney who seems at first glance to be a little more sane. Well his veil is being lifted. This right wing Romney placed his family dog in kennel and put it on top of his car for a twelve hour 'family trip'...when the dog became sick and his diarrhea came running down the windows...Mr nice guy stopped at a gas station and hosed the poor dog off, then put him back on the roof for the rest of the trip. His five sons couldn't be bothered with the dog on their laps. Could you vote for this person?

Donald T.

6:59PM PST on Jan 16, 2012

those idiots have been doing a lot of extreme inflammatory speech and backing off as being 'misunderstood'. my a**. such threats and comments are illegal, of course the Secret Service stepped in. Technically, such speech is not protected. Rights are not absolute. Free speech does not include incitement to riot, mayhem and damage. If that idiot cannot contain himself, his overwhelming compulsion to be an idiot, then his emotional damage may require finding him a nice coat, the kind with buckles in the back, in a nice padded room.

Nick R.

5:49AM PST on Jan 16, 2012

Please, tell me just one more time, How are these guys different from the Taliban? Religious zealots by any name are a scourge on society. They should be paying taxes if they want to mix in politics and come out of hiding and own up to their ridiculous rantings.

Michael M.

5:08AM PST on Jan 16, 2012

@Marc. P.

And you're going to take the word of someone on civil rights who said "‘Assassinate the f—-n (N-word) and his monkey children"?
You're going to take the word of a party on civil rights that believes that no gay person, women, drug addict, etc should have any rights?
No offense,
but you don't have the faintest clue of what these rights are about if you believe this guy on that.
I'm not going to say Obama has been perfect on all civil rights causes, but given the alternatives.. he's the best you've choice you've got.