| | Fox guest gets death threat after calling GOP 'one trick dog'
 A liberal Fox News regular received a death threat and a slew of hate mail after calling Republicans a "one trick dog" on Fox Business Channel Tuesday.
Mike Papantonio, an Air America talk show host and defense attorney, lambasted Republicans who've come out in opposition to President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
"You know what the problem is?" Papantonio declared. "The American people know that the Republicans have no ideas. They're like dinosaurs. They have one talking point. You know what it is, Stuart? It's the same thing I hear you say on this show. Cut taxes and deregulate. You're a one -- Republicans are a one-trick dog." At another point, he called Republicans "boneheads."
This didn't sit well with listeners to the upstart business channel. Ironically, those who appeared to be most upset with Papantonio's name-calling, resorted to attacks themselves -- only far more extreme. One even wished Papantonio dead.
Emails provided to Raw Story display a torrent of ire from those who felt personally insulted by the Air America host's choice of words. Out of privacy, Raw Story has withheld the emailers' names.
"Mike Papantonio," wrote one listener. "May you die a horrible death from brain cancer you frigging scumbag [sic]."
"Better hope you're on a bail-out list when you start feeling the pain that the great-half-african icon, y'all put up there in Our face, falters again, and again, there won't be enough stimulus to keep your sad voices on the air," wrote another.
"Hey Mike, too funny!" typed a third. "Saw you on Neil Cavuto today. What a frigging communist you are and now we all know it. The more of you who speak out, the easier it is for we Americans to stop you from finishing the job of communizing America. Keep up the good work. Ha!!!"
A fourth was terse: "You frigging treasonous pig."
Others reflected a more general dissatisfaction.
"Your encounter with the guest commentator was bizarre," one emailer wrote. "Do you have any idea of how absurd and actually a bit nutty you looked. Your rants were outrageous but I guess that was your ploy so you would not have to answer his question which was quite simple. You should set yourself up to be the poster child for the ultra liberal side of the Dems with all of that anger and ranting and name calling."
Mike Papantonio "is extremely rude and so abrasive. I was shocked at his appearance on a certain news show. I am a Democrat, however, I am an American first and strongly oppose his going on national television and calling fellow Americans (Republicans) 'dogs' among other names."
Papantonio hosts the Air America talk show, Ring of Fire.
This video is from Fox's Your World, broadcast Feb 10, 2009.
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