Trent Humphries

Glenn Beck Pounds ABC and Amanpour for Shrugging Off Death Threat to Tea Partier
By Noel Sheppard | January 17, 2011 | 7:28 PM EST

As NewsBusters reported over the weekend, ABC News did a deplorable job of informing viewers about a death threat made by a Tucson shooting survivor to a Tea Partier at the taping of a town hall event aired on Sunday's "This Week."

On Monday, Glenn Beck and his radio crew savaged Christiane Amanpour for her involvement in this fiasco while concluding, "That lack of truth is why places like ABC will eventually just go out of business and be looking for a handout from the government" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Christiane Amanpour Omits Fuller Saying 'You're Dead' to Tea Partier at 'This Week' Town Hall
By Noel Sheppard | January 16, 2011 | 1:11 PM EST

NewsBusters asked Saturday if ABC's "This Week" would fully report a Tucson shooting survivor issuing a death threat to a Tea Party leader at a special town hall meeting taped earlier that day.

Although host Christiane Amanpour, in a brief, 30 second after-thought at the close of Sunday's program, told viewers J. Eric Fuller's threat was directed at a Tea Party member, she omitted Fuller saying "You're dead" to Trent Humphries (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Keith Olbermann Praised Fuller Day Before His Death Threat to Tea Party Leader
By Noel Sheppard | January 16, 2011 | 10:44 AM EST

The Greek playwright Euripides said you can judge a man by the company he keeps.

On Friday, roughly 24 hours before J. Eric Fuller was going to be arrested for publicly threatening the life of a Tea Party leader at an ABC News town hall meeting, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann praised him via Twitter: