{"id":209148,"date":"2010-01-21T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89677"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:00:07","slug":"fbi-investigates-scott-baio-death-threats-after-crack-about-first-lady-michelle-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209148","title":{"rendered":"FBI Investigates Scott Baio Death Threats After Crack About First Lady Michelle Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Scott-Baio-Michelle-Obama-Controversy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scott Baio Michelle Obama Controversy\" width=\"450\" height=\"828\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-89681\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Days<\/em> hasbeen Scott Baio called the First Lady ugly &#8212; now he&#8217;s calling the FBI after he allegedly received a series of online threats and verbal ass-razzings from angry Tweeters. <\/p>\n<p>Funny how the shoe&#8217;s always tighter on the other foot&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/fbi-investigates-scott-baio-death-threats-after-crack-about-first-lady-michelle-obama\/scott-baio-michelle-obama\/' title='Scott Baio Michelle Obama'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Scott-Baio-Michelle-Obama-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scott Baio Michelle Obama\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/fbi-investigates-scott-baio-death-threats-after-crack-about-first-lady-michelle-obama\/scott-baio-michelle-obama-controversy\/' title='Scott Baio Michelle Obama Controversy'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Scott-Baio-Michelle-Obama-Controversy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scott Baio Michelle Obama Controversy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89677\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Baio came under fire after he posted an unflattering picture of First Lady Michelle Obama on his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realscottBaio\">Twitter.com page<\/a> on Wednesday, along with a caption which read: <em>&#8220;Wow. He (U.S. President Barack Obama) wakes up to this every morning.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post attracted a slew of negative comments and accusations of racism from his followers. Baio, for his part, insists his message was taken the wrong way. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;People need to relax and laugh a bit. Life is too short no matter what party you are with. A joke is just that, a joke,&#8221;<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One bad picture of a woman &#038; everyone wants to bash me?&#8221;<\/em> the star of VH1&#8217;s <strong>Scott Baio&#8230;.45 &#038; Counting<\/strong>  wrote. <em>&#8220;If it had been of Palin ppl would have prob cheered. I am NOT making fun of any1.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the negative comments turned threatening, Baio informed his followers that he had contacted authorities over the nasty posts: <em>&#8220;PLEASE NOTE: The FBI has been contacted &#038; we have a file number for the threats, along with Twitter support. Thx (thanks).&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the racism claims. After all, it <em>is<\/em> an unflattering photo of the otherwise beautiful Mrs. O. However, if you&#8217;re going to dish it out, you have to know how to take it. Does Scott really need to run crying to the Feds because he got roasted on Twitter?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KBrgceT8aGmnGs521Tze2o9MCy4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KBrgceT8aGmnGs521Tze2o9MCy4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KBrgceT8aGmnGs521Tze2o9MCy4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KBrgceT8aGmnGs521Tze2o9MCy4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Days hasbeen Scott Baio called the First Lady ugly &#8212; now he&#8217;s calling the FBI after he allegedly received a series of online threats and verbal ass-razzings from angry Tweeters. Funny how the shoe&#8217;s always tighter on the other foot&#8230;.. Baio came under fire after he posted an unflattering picture of First Lady Michelle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}