Editor and Publisher reports that a newspaper in Michigan received a threat last week from a 60-year-old woman who said she would “do what they did at Fort Hood” because she was angry over an anti-tea party editorial.
The editorial in the Port Huron Times-Herald criticized a Republican congresswoman from the area, Rep. Candice Miller, for attending Michele Bachmann’s Capitol Hill tea party, which the paper called a “GOP festival of hate.”
“If Miller truly has signed up with the right-wing fringe — the bigots, the hate-mongers and the Nazi-chanters — all of us in the Blue Water Area might well need to take another look,” it reads.
The paper is owned by Gannett, and the threat came into a Gannett customer service center in Kentucky at about noon Thursday.
The woman threatened to bring a gun and “do what they did at Fort Hood,” according to police. Police went to the woman’s home and took a statement from her.
The St. Clair County prosecutor is investigating the incident.
(Via Huffington Post)
