Fox host blames egg salad attack on Obama fan
by David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Link to ArticleReporting on concerns over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's safety on the campaign trail, Fox News conflated an egg-salad "attack" on a secret service agent, Obama's sometimes over-eager fans and the assassinations of civil rights leaders in the 1960s."Barack Obama has a lot of big fans but one woman went a bit too far, sending his secret service detail into action," Fox's Martha McClullen said Monday. She went on to recap the story of a Texas state capitol employee who became frustrated at a Secret Service agent who wouldn't allow her to return to her office when Obama spoke at the capitol Friday. There's no indication that the woman, 47-year-old Tracy Firsching, was an Obama supporter nor that she was seen as a threat to the candidate. According to the Austin American-Statesman: The affidavit said Firsching told [the Secret Service officer] that, “You’re going to have to arrest me” and attempted to go past him. Sanders grabbed her by the arm to turn her around when she threw a plastic bowl of egg salad at him and struck him in the face with the bowl, the affidavit said. Fox's McClullen interviewed House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson about the Secret Service's decision to provide Obama with security protection early in his campaign."Sometimes weirdos come out," Thompson said. "If they did, or its anybody else wanted to do harm to him, he would be protected." During the interview, in which McClullen invoked assassinations of civil rights leaders, Fox showed B-roll of African American demonstrators being sprayed with fire hoses as they fought for equal rights. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. If you have accounts on these bookmarking sites, you can post this story to share it with others.
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