Shiloh Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

Shiloh Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity

By Hamil R. Harris

Shiloh Baptist Church in the District said it has received threatening phone calls and e-mails after an Easter visit from President Obama and a conservative television commentator’s subsequent playing of a videotape in which the pastor said that those espousing racial prejudice do so “under the protective cover of talk radio.”

The Rev. Wallace Charles Smith said the church has received more than 100 threats since Fox News channel’s Sean Hannity aired a tape Monday of a speech Smith gave in January 2010 at Eastern University in Saint Davids, Pa.

“We received a fax that had the image of a monkey with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telephone calls that have been so vulgar until she has had to hang up.”

Smith, who shared several of the e-mails with The Post, said he had not notified authorities but is consulting with church leaders about what to do.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shiloh-baptist-church-receives-threats-after-comments-from-sean-hannity/2011/04/27/AFLSKi5E_story.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[jillan]

2. I was flipping thru the channels last nite and caught the end of this conversation on Hannity.

I stopped to listen because I assumed they would be talking about the birth certificate, but no, they were going after this preacher and saying things like Obama needs to research the Churches he attends - and added "Well at least he went to Church, which he never does".

The hatred & racism was just dripping from their "fair and balanced" panel.

[No Elephants]

80. Dummya did nol go to church, except on special occasions, when cameras would be there.

Anyone mention that?

[jpak]

3. Hannity's audience wears bed sheets and burns crosses

yup

[kpete]

4. yup

is right...

from the same article:


Several presidents have worshipped at Shiloh over the decades, including Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shiloh-baptist-church-receives-threats-after-comments-from-sean-hannity/2011/04/27/AFLSKi5E_story.html



peace, kpete

[Kurovski]

33. Hannity is yet another stochastic terrorist.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-35,RNWE:en&q=stochastic+terrorism

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. oh wow, interesting links....

Thanks for that.




geez, I'm reminded of the attempt at an intelligent political discussion way back when Bush was running....
young guy, zealous fundy, used to work in the same place I do...

When he started talking about his idol, Sean Hannity, and nearly get to genuflecting, I figured the conversation was over......


I think a lot of these christofascists don't even REALIZE how hate based they are. He sure didn't.


:puke:

(I haven't seen him in several years now...maybe he's opening his eyes now; who knows? :shrug: )

[Kurovski]

71. Hopefully he has. (nt)

[KansDem]

44. Try "stochastic terrorist" in Google images...

The gang's all there!

on edit: http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rls=RNWE%2CRNWE%3A2004-35%2CRNWE%3Aen&biw=1899&bih=879&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%22stochastic+terrorism%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

[Kurovski]

72. Great idea to google the images.

Yep! There they be.

[timtom]

81. Great link!

Thanks.

[Kurovski]

95. You're welcome, timtom. (nt)

[No Elephants]

I never knew there was a word for it. Thanks.

[Kurovski]

94. Share your knowledge, my friend.

:thumbsup:

[No Elephants]

82. Dupe.

[Scuba]

87. One wonders how many killers are inspired by Rush, Sean, Glenn, et al. /nt

[freshwest]

92. Family members of people arrested cite the influence of Glenn Beck in CA, WA, etc.

The perps listened to the program constantly and were caught up in the emotional state it produces. These programs are on all the time, repeated and in many venues.

A woman in WA said she and her brother listened to Beck and began to believe all his 'death by Obama' talk. She bought emergency food supplies and felt a continual state of panic. But he focused on guns and ammunition.

They lived in a state of fear they'd be taken to FEMA camps for political reasons. She woke up but he didn't. He ended up getting arrested for constant, graphic, escalating death threats to Democratic elected officials and their families.

Between Glenn Beck and Alex Jones, some people are changing their lives to survive a dystopia that is *always* the fault of liberals, progressives and Democrats, with Death Panels and all of that.

But they just voted in their own Death Panels. Will they ever get out of this nightmare and be able to work as productive members of a democratic (little d) society again?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I believe Rev Smith should hand those over to authorities

The way things are now, one never knows if these nuts might start stalking members of the congregation.

[elleng]

6. Yes, he should, definitely.

[movonne]

7. I believe much of this stuff is fueled by the kochroaches and other

billionaires to take this country over and go back to the eighteen hunderds...this is what it looks like when they pay people to do this stuff...scare tactics...there has been ads on craig's list and others places looking for people to do this kind of stuff..until we are ready to give up our lives for our country this will get much worse..the only ones trying to take our freedoms away are repugs and their group of tea baggers...

[vduhr]

8. Sir!

You do an injustice to cockroaches everywhere!

[Roy Rolling]

10. next time

you see a Craig's list ad for right wing "astroturf" recruits please share it. Thanks

[freshwest]

39. There are at least three DU threads on this already...

One about Craigslist recruiting including the ad; another about DOD workers employed to troll internet sites to drive off liberal and progressive posters from websites; and another with their instructions how to shell post websites to give the appearance of a nation approving of these GOP actions and deriding liberals, Democrats, etc. on any issue discussed. They have a method, saying their tools are to infiltrate, shame and confuse. That's in a thread here.

They are being paid, for the most part, no different than the O'Keefe types who live in luxury while doing dirty tricks for the GOP to suppress votes and smear progressives in MSM.

I've been on websites where this has been done. And they only attack Democrats, liberals and progressives, posting off topic insults to drive their news and views off the page.

They have the computing power to post faster than the host systems filter with as many screen names as a spammer. They drown boards with bigoted remarks, death threats, profanity about things most people never imagined, post pictures of all kinds of abuse before the moderators can catch them.

Eventually all the people who came to talk about the issues leave because it's so disgusting. Mission accomplished.

DU is doing a very good job pushing them out because of the high number of well-informed posters here.

[jbeing]

14. The Koch's

are avenging their 3rd Reich heritage.

They're just being all Ayn Randy and stuff.

Look up their family history.

Actually study Feudalism and you'll be close to their dream world.

[Enthusiast]

48. Srsly

[No Elephants]

84. And their Stalin money.

[sakabatou]

9. Not surprised since Hannity is buddy-buddy with white supremacists

[Hoyt]

53. Should have been in Atlanta when Hannity and Boortz tainted airways trying to be the biggest bigot.

Hannity moved on to FOX, while Boortz holds down the fort spewing his brand of bigotry to adoring listeners.

[freshwest]

93. I shut off 'two-minute hate' Hannity years ago. Boortz supporters are mindless repeaters.

[abelenkpe]

11. Ironic since so many fox viewers claim it's the left that's so hateful

yet they are the ones who call and leave threats and hateful messages when fox news tells them to.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Ugh - Republicon Family Cesspool Values - hate & fear

The Repuglicons need to try some real Christianity. It would do them a world of good.

[Enthusiast]

49. They wouldn't know real Christianity

if it came up and bit 'em on the ass. Actually if Jesus did return today's Republicans would attack him 24/7 on hate radio.

[SemperEadem]

13. Patriot Act, anyone?

domestic terrorism, anyone?

the FBI needs to swoop down on those who made the threats and turn their lives upside down for the foreseeable future.

[oldbanjo]

18. I see Domestic Terorism

every time a Tea Party Congressman talks. The tea Party and the Koch brothers are creating a Civil War for this Country.

[freshwest]

40. True. In every possible way, that's what they are doing. Welcome to DU.

[Enthusiast]

50. They advocate fascism.

They HATE the concept of America. Welcome to DU.

[Kurovski]

73. Welcome to DU.

Just terrorism. They are domestic terrorists. somne anti-abortion terrorists rolled in there.

The government itself will be dealing with them eventually. Our courts.

[RevStPatrick]

15. Just out of curiosity, I did a Google image search...

for the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith:



Yep, that's what I figured...

[Name removed]

28. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[RevStPatrick]

30. I'm not quite sure what that means...

...but I'll assume that response was because my comment wasn't clear. And looking back, it wasn't.

I was wondering why people would so vehemently call and threaten a church. I mean really, threats to a frikkin' church? Then it occurred to me that maybe they were doing so because the reverend of that church is an African-American? I did a Google image search on the good reverend's name, and sure enough, he's an African-American. Unfortunately, my surprise at the situation disappeared, due to the blatant racism of the whole birther phenomenon.

I hope this clears up any confusion. The internet is bad at subtlety.

[bobbolink]

34. I got what you meant right away.

The dog whistles in the Hannity thing were clear, and you heard them and figured it out.

Sad what this country has come to... all in the name of "free speech". :(

[Duke Newcombe]

35. My apologies then. Said similarly...

...it sound like something a troll would say, in a bad vein, for the same reasons.

Internet posts are insufficient sometimes when trying to convey meaning, no? :)

[RevStPatrick]

36. No worries!

When I went back and read what I wrote, I was able to see how it could be taken really, really badly!

:hi:

[freshwest]

41. Many people came to DU to stop reading bigotry and want to keep the place good. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[iverglas]

99. just to mention

I got what you meant right away because I'd figgered the same thing as soon as I saw this in the OP:

“We received a fax that had the image of a monkey
with a target across is face,” Smith said.

I think that qualifies as blatant.

[No Elephants]

83. Hannity hates mustaches?

(j/k)

[certainot]

16. it's a topic on ALL RW radio- local and national- the reaction to talk radio

being mentioned get attention because talk radio is the right's most important weapon and it is ridiculous that the left continues to ignore this fact, usually blaming fox instead.

the roves and think tanks probably laugh about it on a regular basis.

[indy legend]

32. The deep pockets on the Left need to figure this out and start

buying radio stations. It is the only way to combat this wave of rw cancer. You will never get clear channel, enter com, cumulus, or salem or any of these other big media companies to give progressive talk any chance. they would rather loose money on any format than to give progressive talk a chance. Come on Soros, Buffet, hollywood types with money. You want to fight back. buy a damn radio station in all the major markets so the message can be heard.

[freshwest]

42. Would that be NPR? Pacifica? Etc?

[Enthusiast]

51. Wouldn't that be amazing

if our side operated on a level playing field with the deep pocketed asshole fascists. A radio station! Hell, buy a damn TV station on par with Fox or CNN.

[certainot]

63. no need- first the left just needs to stop ignoring those radio stations

picket your local racist limbaugh stations and force your state universities to stop broadcasting sports on those limbaugh stations.

there is NO organized left wing response to RW radio, the 1000 racist radio stations that make excuses for racism every day and made all this birther shit acceptable through sheer unchallenged volume and repetition.

until the radio is challenged all other efforts are basically just catch up responses.

progressives will lose all major messaging battles until they picket the limbaugh/hannity megastations and boycott those stations' local sponsors.

when the only local RW radio station sponsors left are the ones that will scream into the phone that they agree with limbaugh and the teabaggers then most of those stations will no longer be able to pay overhead. there are many local sponsors that will look elsewhere if there is an organized effort to educate and shame them- most are there for business reasons.

[freshwest]

66. You're 100% correct and I'm passing on your suggestions.

[Vinnie From Indy]

79. This is THE most important post on this thread

Most people are simply bitching and moaning about the state of our discourse in regard to HAnnity. The fact is that you are 100% correct about the origin of much of this stuff - AM right-wing hate radio. This absolutely has to be fought locally against the LOCAL radio station advertisers. The national advertisers solicited by the Limbaugh show are mostly snake-oil companies that thrive on good or bad publicity. They simply don't care. It is the local Ford dealer or jeweler that advertises on the Limbuagh show or radio station that would drop their business if given sufficient opposition. Remarkably, I have heard ads on the Limbaugh show from unions and other progressive organizations that are immediately followed by direct attacks from the right wing host on their membership.

Best post of the day!
Cheers!

[certainot]

85. US food stamp prog ads on limbaugh! many of their sponsors are making bad business decisions

for eg, it's pretty stupid for pella, trying to sell energy efficient windows, to advertise on a network of stations dedicated to delaying action on global warming. same with any construction related biz that would benefit from energy efficiency retrofitting, or infrastructure improvement, etc.

and it can be pointed out to many universities how their sports associations with RW radio make a joke of their 'mission' statements.

[TxVietVet]

76. The deep pockets have to follow the same game plan flush rush limpballs has used.

They basically gave free programming for dead air space on small market stations. I would say that Ed Schultz would be the guy to offer up a game plan. Someone needs to approach him and have him explain it. I know for years as he was building his base, he offered up the idea about buying up small markets. He said that Air America would fail because they did it all wrong.

Like you say, the lib's/progressives/ and Dems (?) need to counter the conservanazi hate radio machine with alternative topics and the truth.

[harmonicon]

98. That's not the problem.

I for one wouldn't listen to the leftist equivalent of right-wing radio. I prefer to make up my own mind. The real way to stop this is to restore the fairness doctrine.

[TxVietVet]

74. Liberals, progressives and THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY should counter

conservanazi hate radio. The conservanazis have their talking points for the day and they spew it out over and over and over. Their truebeliever wingnuts spew it word for word.
Now, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND IT'S FOLLOWERS need to get small market radio stations and start to broadcast shows like Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, and Norman Goldman. Or, if there is none in your area, look up WCPT, 820 AM in Chicago and listen to those shows. I listened to them for the last few years I worked all over SE Wisconsin.

Fight the conservanazi propaganda with a liberal/progressive message.

[cyberpj]

17. Faxes and Emails can be traced. Do it. They can probably trace the calls as well. nt

[cyberpj]

19. So if we all made calls to Fox, Hannity and Fox sponsers, I mean ALL of us, maybe they'd Beck him.

Glenn Beck, that is.

It's time for Dems to get VOICETEROUS!

I'm calling NOW.

[defendandprotect]

20. Agree re talk radio -- it provides the leadership and the license for hate speech -- !!

[Jefferson23]

21. The racism is quite overt and yet the MSM walks around it and refers

to it as, well, they are just crazy uninformed people. They are racist people, period, at least this Pastor
has the integrity to call it what it is.

I do hope he and his parish receive protection from the thugs.

[Enthusiast]

52. PLUS ONE...............nt

[sinkingfeeling]

22. Funny, but I don't find anything the pastor said controversial.

“I don’t believe that it is a coincidence out of all the churches in the country that Obama finds himself sitting in, why is he always in pews listening to such controversial spiritual leaders?” Hannity said.

[TxVietVet]

77. Find out what church hannity goes to (if any) and show up

and give them a good course in passive resistance. Singing. Praying against him in his church. Holding up banners outside proclaiming his church to be racist just because he's there. There are many ways to turn the tables on him.
Bus loads of homeless and drop them off at churches hannity or bill o'lielly go to. It's all in fun. :rofl: It's all in fun, but the main point is to show them that they are vunerable to the same kind of shit they put out and that turnabout is fair play. Also, remind them that it's dangerous out there, ESPECIALLY IN THEIR LITTLE WHITEBREAD conservanazi-loving church. Which BTW, Jesus Christ himself wouldn't cross the threshold to visit.

[IcyPeas]

23. makes ya wonder...

what the heck kind of church hannity goes to?? (I am assuming he claims to be christian.)

who would have or want him in their congregation?

[oldbanjo]

25. Remember all these Republicans

that are trying to destroy Medicare claim to be Christians. That doesn't say much for their kind of Christianity.

[Frisbee]

24. Don't you just love all those good "Christians"? n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Ah, yeah. Case in point. nt

[Taverner]

27. I can't believe I'm for the Baptist church...

Jeez, I fucking HATE Republicans

[dimbear]

69. LOL

strange bedfellows......

[The Wizard]

29. Some say Hannity's male prostitute

is a Klansman. People want to know: Is Sean Hannity's gay prostitute in the Ku Klux Klan?

[jberryhill]

31. If he was an invited speaker at Eastern....

Then someone is seriously mis-gauging a chunk of the evangelical community by going after this guy with the "crazy pastor" thing.

[plumbob]

38. Why is Sean Hannity still breathing air with the rest of us?

Is God dead? Imaginary? Uncaring? Psycho? Mean? Some combination.

Anything else, he'd be a pillar of salt. At best.

[TxVietVet]

78. hannity is like beckkk

spending tons of money for security because they fear for their lives. You can bet on it.

If it wouldn't be for government or laws, their asses would have been assassinated a long time ago. I remind lots of conservanazis I run into that claim government doesn't work that if it wasn't for government and laws, their sorry asses would have been robbed and killed by the time they got to me or real soon after. :rofl:

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. Kinda proves the point he was making, doesn't it? nt

[freshwest]

67. Yup!

[opihimoimoi]

45. Brown Shirt Response

[live love laugh]

46. What other president's church sermons have been recorded and broadcast? Answer:none nt

[calimary]

47. I think it's high time we started a campaign to Shut Down Fox "News."

I'm sorry - I've had enough. When that network has assholes on it who exhort and inspire violence in their nutcase audience, when they spew lies that cause people to be threatened or even shot, when they showcase knuckledraggers who are allowed to say the most reckless and manifestly irresponsible, not to mention ENTIRELY false, with impunity, to poison the public discourse, I don't think they deserve to be operating anymore. They are a national threat. They are a threat to our national security. And they should be described and referred to as such. They should be closed down.

I think in a case like this, the First Amendment does NOT give them cover - anymore than you can shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. When you're stirring up the worst in the worst kinds of people, then you bear responsibility for what they do as a result.

There's freedom of speech and there's freedom of speech. But you should NOT be allowed to spread lies and adversely impact public opinion.

I'm just frickin' DONE with them. And ALL OF AMERICA should be, too. Boycotts are NOT enough. The whole accursed operation should be CLOSED DOWN.

[Enthusiast]

54. I'll be satisfied when people are

embarrassed to admit they watch Fox.

[calimary]

62. But will they still watch it when they think nobody's looking?

That's my problem here - well one of MANY problems I have with Pox Noise.

OR we have to reinstitute broadcast regulations and ownership restrictions - in the name of leveling the playing field even just a wee bit. When the deck is so frickin' stacked against us, it's time to bring on the regulators. Unfortunately we have too many republi-CONS standing in the way, and we have too many alleged Dems who are spineless and keep joining in with the bad guys - OR they think it's so important to find agreement that it only fuels the arguments of those who claim, sometimes correctly, that there's no difference between the parties so what difference does it make who you vote for? I once had ain INFURIATING conversation with michael o'hanlon of the Brookings Institution (supposed to be a "liberal" think tank, 'eh? So how come he's listed among the PNAC?) and he was SO adamant about agreeing with the CONS he was supposed to be debating and against whom he was supposed to be offering an opposing view. Hell, he might as well have told THEM to go home so he could go take their place and advance THEIR argument.


:banghead:



Whose side are THEY on?

[Enthusiast]

65. Yeah, the Brookings Institution.

I remember those fucks.

[veganlush]

90. Boycotts would be enough if people would just stick to it.

call hannity's sponcers and tell them why you can no longer buy their product. call at least once a week.

[Spinny Liberal]

55. How very Christ like of them. Ugh.

[TygrBright]

56. Stay classy, baggers! n/t

[PuffedMica]

57. Hannity is whipping up the racist Republican base

It is not too soon for the right wing cheerleaders to start their assault for the 2012 elections.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

59. How many racists do you think voted Obama? This is the hate choir we're talking about.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

58. The calls only verify what Smith said about "racial prejudice" & "talk radio"

[Faygo Kid]

60. Not just Hannity - O'Lielly is on the hook for this one, too.

He's all over this, too, pandering to his hateful base. The memo obviously went out from Fox management.

[DFab420]

61. ooh shit, hit unrec by accident, but i mean tot kick and rec

[Jester Messiah]

64. Oop, someone told the truth. Can't have that. Unleash the tards!! [nt]

[Odin2005]

68. Good lord, these teabaggers are like rabid dogs.

[zinnisking]

70. Notifying the authorities is the first thing that should be done,

Everyone of those wannabe thugs should get a visit from the Secret Service.

[TxVietVet]

75. I immediately knew that this church had an African American pastor

before I got to the post that proved it. All one has to say is that some idiot on Fox Not-the-news spewed a hate speech about it and the wingnuts started calling and threatening. I knew they had a black minister.

Racism through conservanazi media is normal. That's all they are about: hatred, prejudices and fear.

[Beer Snob-50]

86. i listened to the segment on his radio show earlier in the week

and it made it seemed that was his easter sermon. i did not realize that was a prior speech.

[obxhead]

88. Not that this is right,

but I honestly don't give a shit.

Religious wackos fighting other religious wackos is nothing new.

[whirlygigspin]

89. radio transmission towers cause cancer

pass it along

[veganlush]

91. What I want to know is, does the piece of shit coward

hannity go to church somewhere, and if so, where? that's what we need to find out.Then that pastor and place and congregation needs to be scrutinized. hannity, as a projectionist, thinks that because he prefers the company of whites, and because he knows how he feels about blacks, that the fact that Obama has a black pastor is proof that Obama is racist. hannity is so sick and so off the mark, and so miserable that only a dose of his own medicine would have a chance of slowing down his stupidity. I wonder what his wife is like? how sick is that woman? Her and any kids there might be have to live out their lives in hiding all because of this disgusting klansmen.

[Vidar]

96. Three cheers for Shiloh Baptist Church! And I very seldom have anything

positive say about Baptist Churches--excepting Jimmy Carter's of course.

[dogfacedboy]

97. Is there any conceivable, intelligent reason for Hannity to continue to exist