Missouri State Fair and Klan rally.

[Perd Hapley]

I wasn't there, but I'm glad to accept the blame for this one.

http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/08/11/clown-dresses-as-obama-at-mo-state-fair-democrats-cry-racism/

[AZRedhawk44]

Funny how caricatures (mask in the article looks just like any of thousands of op-ed caricatures drawn all over the place) are somehow racist.

[Boomhauer]

Of course its racist. Criticizing or mocking a Dear Leader is always racist.

[Jamisjockey]

Liberals can go to hell.

[Perd Hapley]

Liberals can go to hell.

I say, now, that there memba of our illustr-us Klan has neglected to don his propa yoonifoam. You all caint be a-hangin the president in such rags!

[Boomhauer]

Liberals can go to hell.

That of course is proper and righteous free speech...

[Jamisjockey]

Anyone see the outrage over the slap Hillary game?

Well, in 2008, a "slap palin" game came out.  And at the bottom of the page, a photoshop of McCain giving it to Palin (in the carnal fashion).

Again, liberals get to define "outrage" and we're left to defend ourselves?  I say we should be as outrageous and offensive as we want. 

[zxcvbob]

From what I've read of it, it was racist -- the messin' with his big lips part gave it away.

Putting a Obama mask on a clown was fair game IMHO if they'd just stuck with that, and it STILL would have created an uproar (which is sometimes a good thing.)

[MillCreek]

From what I've read of it, it was racist -- the messin' with his big lips part gave it away.

Putting a Obama mask on a clown was fair game IMHO if they'd just stuck with that, and it STILL would have created an uproar (which is sometimes a good thing.)

That and making comments about having Obama trampled by a bull. 

[charby]

From what I've read of it, it was racist -- the messin' with his big lips part gave it away.

Putting a Obama mask on a clown was fair game IMHO if they'd just stuck with that, and it STILL would have created an uproar (which is sometimes a good thing.)

no one really made a stink about this either.

[roo_ster]

Anyone see the outrage over the slap Hillary game?

Well, in 2008, a "slap palin" game came out.  And at the bottom of the page, a photoshop of McCain giving it to Palin (in the carnal fashion).

Again, liberals get to define "outrage" and we're left to defend ourselves?  I say we should be as outrageous and offensive as we want. 

This, plus eleventy.

All these housebroken sort-of conservatives seem hell-bent on letting their enemies define what is beyond the pale. 

[zxcvbob]

This, plus eleventy.

All these housebroken sort-of conservatives seem hell-bent on letting their enemies define what is beyond the pale. 

That's racist!

But seriously, with so many reasons to hate Obama, why would you pick his blackness for mockery?

[Perd Hapley]

That and making comments about having Obama trampled by a bull. 

No, none of that is out of bounds in a nation conceived by the flickering light of burning effigies.

[Balog]

Is "gets trampled by bulls" a racist stereotype of blacks now? 

[MillCreek]

Is "gets trampled by bulls" a racist stereotype of blacks now? 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/12/19987718-rodeo-clown-who-mocked-obama-at-missouri-state-fair-banned-from-performing?lite

During the bull-riding part of the rodeo, a clown put on a mask of Obama while someone asked an enthusiastic crowd if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to media reports and images posted online.

A fair-goer, Perry Beam, posted his account of the event via social media. Video footage of the stunt aired by KSHB shows the rodeo announcer saying, “We’re gonna smoke Obama, man.”

I think the connotation being drawn is having a black man killed by being trampled, and that raises memories of similar occurrences in the past.

[Perd Hapley]

From what I've read of it, it was racist -- the messin' with his big lips part gave it away.

That's funny. None of the stories I've read said the lips were big. You just kind of assume that, based on the President's race?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/12/19987718-rodeo-clown-who-mocked-obama-at-missouri-state-fair-banned-from-performing?lite

During the bull-riding part of the rodeo, a clown put on a mask of Obama while someone asked an enthusiastic crowd if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to media reports and images posted online.

A fair-goer, Perry Beam, posted his account of the event via social media. Video footage of the stunt aired by KSHB shows the rodeo announcer saying, “We’re gonna smoke Obama, man.”

I think the connotation being drawn is having a black man killed by being trampled, and that raises memories of similar occurrences in the past.

Yeah, 'cause everyone remembers those black people that were racially trampled. 

[MillCreek]

That's funny. None of the stories I've read said the lips were big. You just kind of assume that, based on the President's race?


Yeah, 'cause everyone remembers those black people that were racially trampled. 

Or dragged behind pickup trucks until they died.

[Perd Hapley]

So you're saying that Obama being virtually, hypothetically gored by a bull (at a rodeo, where there are angry bulls running around) reminds people, or is calculated to remind people, that another, totally different man under totally different circumstances, died in a totally different way? I guess all black people die alike to you. 

[Hawkmoon]

I can't find it now, but I believe I read that the clown who wore the Obama mask has been banned from the fair.

Not just told not to wear the mask again, but BANNED.

[MillCreek]

http://nation.time.com/2013/08/12/rodeo-chiefs-lawyer-anti-obama-clown-went-rogue/

^^^Yes, according to the TIME magazine article, the performer has been banned.

[MillCreek]

So you're saying that Obama being virtually, hypothetically gored by a bull (at a rodeo, where there are angry bulls running around) reminds people, or is calculated to remind people, that another, totally different man under totally different circumstances, died in a totally different way? I guess all black people die alike to you.  

So do you feel the rodeo clown's actions were appropriate and a good representation of the people of Missouri?

[Balog]

So do you feel the rodeo clown's actions were appropriate and a good representation of the people of Missouri?

Do you feel that the Bushitler protestors hanging Dubya in effigy were appropriate and a good representation of WA?

Also, "not appropriate or a good representation" isn't the same thing as racist now is it?

[Perd Hapley]

So do you feel the rodeo clown's actions were appropriate and a good representation of the people of Missouri?

The only qualm would be with the Fair being tax-payer-funded, which would seem to make political commentary out-of-bounds. In normal times, anyway.

Beyond that, yes, they were perfectly appropriate. As for "a good representation," I don't know. It was certainly good, clean fun. Mocking politicians, as we Americans always do. I'd prefer something more cerebral, but I'm a snob.

[AZRedhawk44]

No, none of that is out of bounds in a nation conceived by the flickering light of burning effigies.

QFT.

Sam Adams and his ilk were downright hooligans.

[Tallpine]

If Obama had a son, he would have been gored and trampled by a white bull.