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Tucson, Arizona -- Arizona shooting victim James Eric Fuller sent his apologies Monday for telling a Tea Party leader, "you are dead." Dorothy DeRuyter, a companion of Fuller's, provided CNN with a statement. "I would like to tender my sincerest apologies to Mr. (Trent) Humphries for my misplaced outrage on Saturday at the St. Odelia's town meeting," Fuller said in the statement. "It was not in the spirit of our allegiance and warm feelings to each other as citizens of our great country." Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed to a county mental health facility

The massacre in Tucson was a horrendous tragedy. Everyone in the country, of every ideological stripe, should have been allowed to mourn the victims’ deaths and injuries without the imposition of having to defend people who had nothing at all to do with it. But where normal people saw tragedy, the far left saw opportunity. They jumped at the chance to implicate an entire movement, and their leaders, (most notably Sarah Palin) as accessories to the crime. They did this before anything was even known about the assailant. They did it because of their own visceral hatred for their political...

Arizona shooting victim James Eric Fuller remains under psychiatric observation following his arrest Saturday for threatening a Tea Party leader at a town hall meeting. Fuller’s arrest follows his public rebuking of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, accusing them of inciting Jared Loughner, the man suspected in the shooting rampage that left six dead and 13 injured -- including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- at a Tucson supermarket. Pima County Sheriff spokesman Jason Ogan told FoxNews.com that Fuller -- who was charged with disorderly conduct and making threats -- is still at an undisclosed facility in Tucson, Ariz. On Friday, Media...

Democrat Eric Fuller has a psychiatric evaluation on his schedule. Fuller, wounded in the Tucson shooting, visited a "Town Hall" gathering In Tucson held by ABC News. The area Tea Party leader Trent Humphries was speaking when Fuller became agitated and threatened Humphries with death Fuller then swiveled in his chair, raised his camera and took a photo of the pro-gun speaker, muttering, "You're dead," according to Joel Tranter, who was sitting behind him. And he had a message for those in attendance: As police officers approached to escort Fuller outside, he turned and shouted at the audience: "You...

...Giffords' progress came as new details emerged about the rampage victim arrested Saturday for shouting a threat during a town-hall meeting. James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee, had told The Post on Friday, the day before his arrest, that top Republican figures should be tortured -- and their ears severed. "There would be torture and then an ear necklace, with [Minnesota US Rep.] Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin's ears toward the end, because they're small, female ears, and then Limbaugh, Hannity and the biggest ears of all, Cheney's, in the center," Fuller said. Also on Friday,...

...Fuller has a history of self-aggrandizement and spewing political rhetoric. As a member of "HypnoThoughts.com," Fuller explained his political beliefs in detail. Under "Area of Speciality," he wrote: "I use extraordinary persuasive charisma to interest blase, apathetic, oblivious and at times hostile voters to listen to the voice of justice and consanguinity. My experiences encountering public figures and many affluent travelers in person has led me to believe that we all are to blame for George W. Bush." First, I wonder if he used his "extraordinary persuasive charisma" when he screamed "you're dead" at a Tea Partier. Second, how self-centered...

Following the call of many, including some House Democrats, that other states and people in general should boycott Arizona over its new tough immigration laws, Dem Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords said the following on Fox News, June 30, 2010: “If you’re angry at the politicians, take out your anger and resentment on the politicians, not over — you know, over the hard-working people.” The interviewer, GVS, did not even blink on Gifford’s language. No, not because GVS is used to hearing it from Palin or Beck, but because this – again – is regular political talk that is used all the...

Yesterday (covered here at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), in his report on the arrest of Eric Fuller at an ABC "This Week" taping in Tucson, Arizona, the Associated Press's Bob Christie either failed to perform a basic web search that would have revealed Fuller's Friday "Democracy Now!" rant, or failed to report what he found. This evening's AP report from Christie and Amanda Lee Myers at least recognizes Fuller's appearance on the far-left program. But that acknowledgment appears at Paragraph 14 of a report that is primarily about Gabrielle Giffords's recovery (headlined "Rep. Gabrielle Giffords condition improves"), instead of in a...

Prosecutors have formally charged a victim of last week's Arizona shooting rampage with threatening a Tucson leader of the Tea Party political movement during the taping of an ABC News town hall-style television program. James Eric Fuller, 63, who was taking part in the televised forum, was involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluation on Saturday after he grew agitated, stood up to snap a picture of Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries and shouted, "You're dead," police said.

A survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a death threat to a Tea Party member Saturday in the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC's "This Week." For some reason, ABC World News Saturday in its report about the gathering chose to omit the seriousness of the threat and that it was made to a Tea Partier.

When Sarah Palin made Rahm Emanuel's expletive-enhanced use of the word "retarded" an embarrassment for him and the president, she forced the left to live up to its own P.C. standards. Saul Alinsky would be proud. Normally, according to the media elites' rulebook, when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives rant, it is hate speech. Members of the media elite appear to sincerely believe that liberals are less vitriolic than conservatives, and through repetition they have convinced a large part of the public that this is true. The reason liberals can "rant" without fear of being labeled terrorists...

Please sign the on-line petition to indict Sarah Palin for incitement to violence, related to designating Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords with a gun target on her websiteHere's the link to the petition: Link to Petition

[...] ABC News “Though there are no known ties whatsoever between shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner and Sarah Palin or any part of the Tea Party movement, the “crosshairs” became part of the media coverage of the Tucson shootings from the very beginning.” LA Times (23rd paragraph) “Those seeking a coherent philosophy will probably be frustrated”, said Mark Pitcavage, director of investigative research at the Anti-Defamation League. “So far, most of his beliefs appear to be the product of his own mind, primarily,” he said. Wall Street Journal “All he did was play video games and play music,” said Tommy...

Fine. Let's blame "inflammatory rhetoric" for violence such as that in Tucson, Ariz., last weekend. Let's condemn its authors with the most, well, inflammatory language we can find. And let's ban it. Of course, we'll have to start with The Koran and a few score Muslim clerics throughout the world, including here in the United States. Not what you had in mind, liberals? Ah, but you suggested it. I didn't. Some liberal "pundits" and politicians have claimed Jared Loughner was motivated to kill six people in Tucson and wound several others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, by comments from conservatives....

The co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party said he is worried about the threats he is receiving, including a remark by a shooting victim made to him at a televised town hall meeting. Trent Humphries told The Associated Press on Sunday he was surprised when shooting victim James Eric Fuller took a picture of him and said "you're dead." The 63-year-old Fuller was arrested Saturday on disorderly conduct and threat charges and taken for a psychiatric exam. Authorities say he began ranting at the end of ABC News' forum, at one point calling the audience "whores." The show, videotaped at...

Eric Fuller, wounded in the Tucson shootings, was about to become the Progressives’ “Exhibit A” in the War on Palin. It all started Friday with an interview on Amy Goodman’s mis-named Democracy Now radio program. Headlined "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target", here’s how it began: Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and...

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Pima County sheriff's spokesman Jason Ogan says mass shooting victim James Eric Fuller, 63, remains at a Tucson hospital Sunday on an involuntary psychiatric hold, for a mental evaluation. Fuller was taken to a hospital Saturday afternoon by sheriff's deputies who arrested him on misdemeanor charges - for making a threat and for disorderly conduct - after Fuller told Tea Party leader Trent Humphries after a town hall event: "You're dead." Fuller confronted Humphries after the taping of an ABC-TV Sunday news show Saturday at a local church. The town hall event was organized by ABC-TV and...

TUCSON — A victim of the shooting spree here that killed six people and wounded 13, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, was arrested Saturday after he spoke threateningly at a televised forum intended to help this stricken city heal, the police and witnesses said. The man, J. Eric Fuller, 63, a military veteran who supports Ms. Giffords, was involuntarily committed for a 72-hour mental health evaluation, said Jason Ogan, a spokesman for the Pima County sheriff’s. The sheriff's office has forwarded charges against Mr. Fuller of threats and intimidation, as well as disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, to the county attorney's office,...

Which is to say, there actually is some evidence. On the left-wing Democracy Now radio show Friday, Fuller, a survivor of the Tucson shooting, said the following: It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled—senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even nine-year-old girls.

...Fuller was arrested and send for a psychiatric treatment yesterday, as he screamed "you're dead" at a Tea Party leader. However, this action was simply the culmination of vitriol that he has hurled at the Tea Party, both before and after the shooting. Right after the shooting, Fuller gave an interview with liberal Democracy NOW... Here is a short transcript: Fuller- "It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle, and the rest got their first target...Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance...