A man threatening to kill people on the Council of American-Islamic Relations is not unique in America these years, but one man’s excuse for it just might be. John David Weissinger’s lawyer told the judge that his client had basically overdosed on a week-long Fox News bender that made him lose his mind. John Iadarola (ThinkTank), Michael Shure, and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
The lawyer for a California man sentenced to one year in jail for making threats towards the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Tuesday that his client was provoked by alcohol and a week of binge-watching Fox News, local TV station KFMB reported.
La Mesa resident John David Weissinger pled guilty last year to making email and telephone threats to CAIRs San Diego and Washington, D.C. offices. His lawyer, Michael Malowney, attributed his behavior to alcohol abuse and to having spent a week watching Fox News coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks at the Paris headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 11 dead.
He barks when hes drunk, Malowney told a judge during the Tuesday sentencing hearing, as quoted by KFMB. He was reeling from depression and anxiety.””*
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