The Associated Press
TACOMA — A Washington state congressman who has criticized recent town-hall meetings for having a “lynch mob mentality” has forwarded a threatening fax depicting President Barack Obama to police.
Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., told McClatchy Newspapers that his office received the fax depicting Obama in makeup similar to the Joker character from the Batman film “The Dark Knight.”
The communist hammer-and-sickle logo was shown on Obama’s forehead, with the message “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!”
Baird spokesman Garrett Russon says U.S. Capitol Police were notified about the fax and about threatening phone calls his office has received.
