Secret Service Investigates Obama Effigy In Jimmy Carter’s Hometown

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 7:16 am, January 4th, 2010

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Happy New Year, Mr. President. As if last night’s panicked closure of Newark airport over an idiotic security breach wasn’t an inauspicious enough beginning to Obama’s new year in Washington, yesterday the Feds discovered a President Obama effigy hanging in a Georgia town. To make matters worse the town happened to be the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. From the local report (video below).

A doll found hanging off of a building in Plains is causing controversy.

Controversial enough to get the United States Secret Service involved.

Witnesses say it was an image of President Barack Obama with a rope around his neck and the display was found hanging in one of the city’s most recognizable sites dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter.

Sigh. Let’s hope between the extra flight retrictions, the heightened terror alert, and this sort of scary idiotic behavior the year (the decade?) can only get better from here.

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TfT

I agree that this is so far over the top. I remember when the feds also investigated the Palin effigy and the Bush effigies as well. Both sides do this and it’s disgusting.
puck30

So true TFT, unfortunately this is going to keep going on because you have freaks out there.

Welcome back Glynnis.
rmbltmbl

You know every time I see something like this now.. I want proof it wasn’t some loony transgender anarchist. I hear about frame jobs like that and the suicidal census worker. So.. prove who did it.
Puter Boi

Idiotic behavior by unfeeling, callous troglodytes.
I have been to Plains….it is a wonderful little town full of fine people. I feel bad for them.
Fidoohki

*sigh* This is just a stupid thing to do.
Fidoohki

The effigy not the investigation. Hope they nail the sob who did this to the wall.
Moderate

“I hear about frame jobs like that and the suicidal census worker. So.. prove who did it.”

After the census worker suicide the local residents were denigrated as being backwater hillbillies, and no one in the media apologized after the truth came out.
The Real Royal King

Georgia. Baja South Carolina. Is anyone surprised?
pyrope

This did not come as a surprise to me; it was Jimmy Carter who put it there! Seriously, whomever is responsible for this sad act is a despicable human being and stories like this simply become fuel for the fires of hatred built by other racist organizations, e.g. the black panthers, black muslims, and despicable human beings who have darker complexions.
Nachi

What else would we expect from such a large area of inferior, ill-bred, uneducated woodchucks, hayshakers,
and NASCAR Bubbas?? This is Murcuh – 2010 – style. Yup.
ImNotBlue

Nachi says:
January 4, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Murcuh

WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN!!! YOU’VE GOTTA TELL ME!

Hey, is this the first, “Murcuh” of 2010?
ImNotBlue

Nachi says:
January 4, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Murcuh

I finally figured it out! You’re saying “America!” Get it… “*silent A* mur *silent I* cuh”

Wow… so long to figure out the insanity! HOORAY!

Boy, you’re busy! Posting under all kinds of names: “matticusfinch” “Tom” Pete” “x76″ “fatboy” and a whole bunch more. And you’ve really been all over the place, haven’t you? AJC and MSNBC weren’t to surprising. The Howard Stern fan site was more so.

How do I know they’re you? Well… Google only returns 6 pages for a search of “Murcuh,” which means it’s not a popular term. Then, you can tell by certain words and phrases that are just retreads of what you post here.

But what’s really fun is some of the things you said on the Howard Stern site. My favorite quote is this one:

1. I am, always have been, and always will be a total asshole. I *must* take the opposing view, no matter what the argument is — always the underdog side of things.

http://www.sternfannetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?p=13134781#post13134781

Finally… a bit of honesty! Of course then you start using slurs and such, which is back to normal. Someone also referred to you as being “Canadian,” which doesn’t surprise me… you’ve tipped your hand on that a few times.

And lastly, I even figure out how you came here. The Howard Stern stuff is from mid-2008. But, as Dan Abrams said in his “3 Month Anniversary” post, the site has been ” cited by a who’s who in the world of media including Martha Stewart, Howard Stern, Paul Krugman, and ESPN’s Bill Simmons.” So it looks like Howard drove you here… and ironically, YOURS is the only post in that Abram’s post.

Well… now we know a little more about Nachi. Just an angry annoyance from up north… a Stern fan, which likes to start trouble for no other reason than to be a jerk. How interesting…