Jane Pitt, mother of actor Brad Pitt, has been scared into silence by the hate-filled, vulgar and even violent reaction to her public assertion that Barack Obama is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage. Pitt has even been the subject of death threats following her letter to the editor of Missouris Springfield News-Leader in which she asserted failure to vote for Republican presumptive presidential candidate Mitt Romney constituted a vote for Obama.