White Presidents, on the other hand, are free game.
A rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask during a show at the Missouri State Fair found himself banned forever.
SEDALIA, Mo. (KSDK) – The rodeo clown who donned an Obama mask during a show at the Missouri State Fair over the weekend has been permanently banned from performer there ever again.
In a statement released to the media Monday afternoon, the commission apologized again for the rodeo clown’s actions and said they were inappropriate and not keeping with the fair’s standards.The commission unanimously voted to ratify a decision by Missouri State Fair Director Mark Wolfe to ban the rodeo clown who wore the mask. The clown was not identified.
Albert S. Watkins, attorney for Mark Ficken, the rodeo announcer at the Missouri State Fair, said the clown went off script and was the one who made the controversial comments about the president.
A witness who provided NewsChannel 5 with video and pictures of the clown claimed the announcer “whipped the audience into a lather” by repeatedly asking attendees if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull.”
Democrats immediately and predictably called the incident racist
“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening. It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV,” said Beam.
and a call for violence against Obama.
I’ve written it a million times. Liberals have ZERO long term memory. In 1994 President George HW Bush was depicted as a dummy target for a rodeo.
Politicians and the national media jumped all over the incident, deeming it to be inappropriate and disrespectful. However, very few are acknowledging that what took place in Sedalia, Mo., on Saturday night was a duplication of a stunt that has been performed many times before.
In fact, it was documented back in 1994 that a dummy wearing a President George H.W. Bush mask, propped up by a broomstick, was employed as a decoy during a bull riding riding contest.
One member of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association who was at Saturday’s event told the Associated Press that there was nothing offensive or unusual about the rodeo clowns actions — he was trying to look like a dummy and that rodeo clowns have long performed such acts, often imitating sitting presidents.
Even Bubba was reportedly used as a rodeo dummy:
Suddenly the techno music and pyrotechnics return, and a bull is let loose. He cuts a fine figure against the spraying lights. Bucking bulls are the ultimate rodeo event, but like a roller coaster ride, it’s short and a little anticlimactic. After throwing its rider, one bull gores a dummy that’s wearing a Bill Clinton facemask. In spite of all the ceremony, the rodeo ends abruptly and we rush to the car.
And the difference is painfully obvious. HW and Bubba are white. That makes insulting and calling for violence against them acceptable. Only when the black President is used in a similar fashion does umbrage erupt.
And speaking of calling for violence, here’s a reminder of how W was treated:
No, their thoughts are not focused on killing jihadists. Their dreams lie with killing George W. Bush. The mainstreaming of presidential assassination chic is on.
In her new book, “Peace Mom,” Cindy Sheehan confesses on page 29 that she has imagined going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush in order to prevent the Iraq War. It’s the moonbat version of pre-emption. Sheehan admits she has entertained this infanticidal fantasy “often.” That ice-cream-and-coffee hunger strike is getting to her head.
And if you need more, here ya go.
You can’t help but wonder how the left would react to a movie depicting an assassination of Obama. The left loved the Bush assassination movie. It received the top award at the 2006 Toronto Film Fextival.
Do you imagine a movie about the assassination of Barack Obama receiving a top award anywhere?
Or would that be racist and a call for inciting violence?
Democrats continue to use race as a shield– as a club with which to batter any and all who dare disagree with or engage in any ridicule of the One.
The White House press corps has been reduced to a sniveling, whimpering bunch of weenies who have been brow-beaten into total compliance. Now for the rest of America.
UPDATE
An Occupier wore an Obama mask during a protest- no outcry from the left.
The NAACP calls for the DOJ and the Secret Service to “investigate” the rodeo clown.
Oprah calls the rodeo an “Emmett Till moment”
OK, I made up the last one, but…
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DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@Tom
Last chance.
When Bush Sr. and Clinton were used as rodeo targets it was not racist. Why is it racist to use Obama in the same way?
@Tom:
Name them. Provide links for their quotes. You can start with the Kanye West comment about how President Bush “hated” black people. Or perhaps the CNN reporter who referred to President Bush as a “monkey.” Can you imagine the howling if someone referred to President Obama as a “monkey?” Or maybe you can show where the anti-war protesters who marched with placards of a beheaded Bush were chastised by anyone on the left?
And of course, everyone knows that a rodeo clown in an Obama Halloween mask is a danger to the President although a rodeo clown in a Bush mask was not.
@DrJohn:
First of all, I never said this particular clown, your hero, is a racist. So your question is pointless in that respect. What I will say is if I have to explain to you why a clown wearing a mask of a white person in front of a bunch of white people at a rodeo is obviously not going to invite suspicions of racism, while a clown wearing a mask of a black person under similar circumstances certainly could, you’re even denser than I imagined.
OBAMA JUST CUT ANOTHER JOB,
that guy was not doing anything wrong,
compare it with those MAYER COMEDIAN, AND OTHER LIB,
AND AL SHARPTON RHETORIC AGAINST THE PEOPLE,
THIS IS JUST A SMALL COMEDY TO MAKE THE SHOW MORE INTERESTING,
NOTHING OFFENSIVE COMPARE TO THE PRESIDENT BUSH SHOT THEY GAVE HIM SO TO WIN HIS ELECTION BY BEATING HIM AND DEMONIZE HIM.
@retire05:
I never said the clown was a threat. They really shouldn’t give people access to the internet who don’t know how to read, or perhaps who are in an advanced state of dementia.
@Tom:
Well, there we have it. Any comment from someone [suspected to be] white against Obama is automatically considered racist and from this day forward, all rodeo clowns in [the stupid] State of Missouri will have to endure “sensitivity” training to make sure they don’t insult the President who just happens to be half black.
And I demand that all hunters go through sensitivity training for wearing paint on their faces when they go hunting because it is an insult to all Native Americans who painted their faces when they went on war parties. No more Duck Dynasty guys in face paint on national TV. Any TV station that shows any movie that portrays the Native American as hostile should be removed from the national airways. Jeep should cease immediately calling one of its vehicles a “Cherokee.” The Boston Red Sox should change their name because it has the word “Red” in it. Any city or town that has a Native American name should be forced to change their name due to the genocide committed by white, AND BLACK, men against the Native American.
And from now on, any comment from any black person mocking/ridiculing/insulting any white/Hispanic/Asian person will from this day forward be considered a racist and will be forced into sensitivity training.
Tom
@Tom #21
@retire05: The CLOWN was not wearing a Bush mask.
In #21 Tom provided link to HRC’S denunciation.
Dr. J. Tom’s #53 answers your #51 quite succinctly.
@Richard Wheeler:
No one on the left gave a damn when Code Pink was marching on D.C. with placards of a beheaded Bush. So which is worse; a Halloween mask or a placard of a beheaded President?
ONE person, ONE. Can you name any more? Or does Hillary speak for all the black people who made disparaging remarks about President Bush?
@Tom
That’s not what happened, but never mind. Your position is that equality is not possible, that double standards not only exist, but are necessary. So much for being post-racial.
The clown wasn’t caricaturing any black person, which is crucial to your argument. He was lampooning the President, just as the others were, except they are white.
And if you can’t see that, you are a far worse racist than I imagined.
GREG
YOU ARE SO MAD THAT YOU INSULT THE GOOD PEOPLE,
TAKE A HOLD ON YOURSELF,
@DrJohn:
Nice try, dishonest jackass. That sentence was directly following Hillary Clinton’s quote on the filmakers who made the Bush film. It, and the rest of the paragraph, are not addressing the clown, and you would be a fool not to know it. You also failed to include my next sentence: “Publicly inciting animosity toward a sitting President falls into another, harder to pinpoint, category”, which is actually the crux of the point made: the filmmakers – and people like you – aren’t directly issuing threats, you’re inciting negative emotion. In your case, of course, it’s just much more blatant and obvious.
@Richard
Three Presidents were made the targets of rodeo hijinks, yet following only one of them was there a huge outcry of racism and a demand for a DOJ and Secret Service investigation.
People are woefully ignorant of the proud tradition of rodeo clowns in America.
This is what they do.
I attended my first rodeo in CA back in the 1950’s and Ike was lampooned.
My mom was steamed until she saw everybody laughing, even those who voted for him.
I just thought it was funny.
The clowns do a vital job in the rodeo.
The fact that they can do it AND be funny is testament to their talent.
The fact that Americans have adopted Islam’s ”I’m so offended,” tantrums is testament to our infantile reversion because we are becoming an entitlement-loving nation of babies who never grow up.
I mean, there’s a new term for 26 year olds still being supported by mommy: ”adult children.”
@DrJohn:
No, my point is that it’s entirely possible for Obama to be the victim of racism, regardless of this incident. This is something that you illogically deny because, according to you, hecklers of President Bush were never accused of racism. You’re the one connecting two disparate events to draw a completely illogical conclusion. I’m just point out the obvious. It’s not my fault you don’t have the slightest clue how to formulate your passions into coherent arguments that can’t be knocked over with a gentle breeze.
@Tom
You and I are very different. I see the clown making fun of a President. You see the clown making fun of a black man. You cannot get past race. That is your problem.
I hope you are able to grow out of that racist mentality.
Tom is typical of so many liberals. They can’t can’t get past race. They make believe that they are better than everyone because they are patronizing and they confuse that with caring.
DrJohn
thank you for those advice of GREAT WISDOM,
MANY TIMES , YOU SAID THOSE LITTLE SENTENCES,
short but full of WISDOM,
IT’S TIME TO NOTICE IT,
BYE
@DrJohn:
says (with a straight face, I presume) the man who wrote this post, which is nothing more than a flimsy excuse for people like him to vent about their perceived victimhood from these egregious examples of “reverse racism”. And just in case anyone forgot Obams is black, and all that that entails, DrJohn is here to helpfully remind you again.
@DrJohn:
This mindboggling statement is actually coming from the same person who, in just the past 35 days, has posted these gems:
(Brand New!!!!) Oprah has a brush with racism with each new movie release
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Ridicule a Black President
Obama seeks race-based school discipline policies. That’s what got Trayvon Martin killed
Eric Holder: White people have a duty to retreat
Bring me the head of George Zimmerman!
Winners of the Trayvon Martin Sweepstakes Bonanza
“We are not asking that he [Zimmerman] be convicted; We are asking that he be arrested”
If you don’t look like you could be Obama’s son or you’re not one of Holder’s people, you’re screwed.
I’d share more (there is plenty, plenty more) but, God, just assembling that highlight reel of race baiting dreck has my soul feeling dirty.
@Tom:
I demand you change your name or apologize to all Native Americans for the play on the words used for a drum.
@Tom:
They’re all testaments to the left’s abuse of race. Every one of them.
@retire05:
Your lame and offensive attempt at cleverly making a point is hamstrung by your ignorance of the origin of the word in question. I know I’ve asked you think before, but what’s it like to humiliate yourself in front of people you’re so desperate to impress?
@DrJohn:
But it’s the left that’s obsessed with race, not you, remember?
@DrJohn:
I thought that the leftists supported the position that we shouldn’t consider a politician’s color or sex, and that instead, they should be evaluated by their positions and practices while in office, that politicians were public figures and open to both public attention for praise or ridicule regardless of sex, color religion (or lack thereof,) etc…
To say that Obama must be immune to the same equal treatment standards as other politicians simply because he is black, is of itself racism.
@Tom:
The only person here humiliating themself is you, Tom. But if you are going to insist that we take political correctness (a Marxist standard) to absurd limits, then I am demanding you change your name because it was exclusively attached to Native Americans in this country.
I also demand that the Buffalo Soldiers memorial be closed. Why are we honoring men who committed genocide and were racist against another race of Americans?
THE PROOF THAT THERE IS NO RACIST HERE,
we have HERMAN CAIN WHO COULD HAVE TAKEN THE WHITE HOUSE AND DO A GREAT JOB FOR AMERICAN, WE HAVE ALLEN WEST OUR HERO,WE HAVE THE GREAT BENJAMIN CARSON, AND MANY MORE,
WE HAVE WALL-STREET SUPER SMART BLACK PEOPLE GIVING THEIR INSIGHT AT FOX
AND SO MANY MORE WE HAVE IN OUR LIKING, WE FOLLOW THEM WHEN THEY COME PUBLIC, SOME OF THE HOLLYWOOD ACTORS WE LIKE ALSO,
LIKE THE ONE I SAW IN THE MOVIE INDEPENDENCE, WILL SMITH,
YOU TROLL NEVER HEAR A BAD WORD ABOUT THEIR COLOR,
THERE IS YOUR DEMOLITION TOTALLY TO THE GROUND,
SO Y’ALL ,WHEN YOU SEE A CLOWN WITH AN IMAGE OF OBAMA,, USE YOUR BRAIN INSTEAD OF COLOR CHART , RACIST CARD COME ONLY FROM THE DEMOCRAT ALL OF THEM SHOULD HAVE OTHER IMPORTANT THING TO DO THAN TRYING TO SEND AN GOOD MAN TO LIFE IN PRISON
BECAUSE HE DEFEND HISELF FROM THE BEATING TO DEATH OF A YOUNG MAD PERSON,
@retire05But:
Thanks for your interesting thoughts on Native Americans. I honestly didn’t realize my name means”drum” in the one language all Native Americas speak, “Indian”. Ha Ha. how clever. The next time I need a recommendation for an episode of “F Troop”, I’ll come to you.
Actually in this country, your name refers to male species, generally a cat. It’s even more fun if you’ve got the Brit friends. That’s their slang for female hookers, and “tomming” around should be self explanatory.
Attached to Native Americans? Only to those who read with a stutter… LOL
Oh well.. enough reading the theater of the absurd here.
I would absolutely LOVE to see either Allan West or Ben Carson as President.
Liberals? They refer to the above gentlemen as “Uncle Tom’s” and “House Ni**ers”
They’re so enlightened. So post-racial. So full of sh*t.
@Tom:
Like them shows that portray U.S. Army soldiers slaughtering Native Americans, do you?
@Greg: #31 Greg
Why do you suppose that is? That Fox News is the leading cable news network and talk radio is 95% conservative? Fox News, all conservatives know that if they want to see the truth about a story, they have to watch Fox. That’s self evident. Talk radio, have you ever listened to a liberal on talk radio? If you have, you know why no one will listen to them. First, they don’t know what the truth is, they put up such a distorted view of the world that not even libs believe them. Secondly, libs don’t want to know the truth anyhow, they’d rather watch Animal House and Glee.
To which the harridan responds:
tire’some, “tom” is one word with a meaning and some derivatives… none of them relating to a drum used by Native Americans in *any* part of the western hemisphere, including the US. Unless, of course, you want to insinuate they beat on on small animals, like cats and turkeys, for ritual music.
“Tom tom” is the correct word for a tribal drum. Hence the comment about reading with a stutter.
You’re quick to look up new words for personal insults. You might want to scale back to three letter words first.
@Tom: If Obama had a son that was a Rodeo clown, it would probably look like him. (the Missouri clown)
@Tom: Tom, do you never tire of being a fruit cake?
@MataHarley:
I envy you. As a willing participant in the theatre of the absurd, I own the hangover and the regret, which are just kicking in, but like any bender it was mindless fun while it lasted. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to edit post 70 for yet another example of how Dr John isn’t pathologically obsessed with race.
That’s ‘fruit cake’ as in Indian language….
@Redteam:
No. Do you ever tire of being the smartest piece of furniture in the room?
Ah, another positively mapcap, not painfully inept, attempt at levity. Please, please, no more. A man can only handle so much comedic ambrosia at one time.
@Tom: One day maybe you’ll figure out those hangovers are caused by excessive drinking.
@MataHarley: The tag team of tiresome and R.T is humorless.
@Richard Wheeler: Actually, I have a very good sense of humor, unfortunately the politics of the left are about as funny as a chapped a**.
The “mountain out of a mole-hill” that the the left is trying to create about this “news” item, emphasizes most clearly that Democrats need to make up their minds: On whether they they want equality in treatment for all, or There must be “special treatment” of some who are “more equal”, depending on a person’s race, sex, religion (or aversion to same,) and/or their political persuasions. Obama does not deserve a “free pass” because of his racial heritage. He is President and wearing his “big boy pants,” so he is open to the same kinds of derision as other Presidents and public figures have received. Democrats whining false claims of “racism” are getting boorish and undermines the despicable history of true racism.
@Redteam:
Not to quibble, but most conservatives recognize that FOX, (while leaning to the right,) tends to take an “establishment” or sometimes even libertarian stance on their reporting and commentary. There is no “Conservative” television news channel. Still they mostly tell the truth in their hard news reporting. I consider Megan Kelly their best on evenhandedly covering the news. Sheppard Smith has a tendency to interject his somewhat left of establishment commentary on some reports.
Great post DrJohn – i had some similar thoughts
Do Not Insult the god king.
I can count on my fingers and toes x10 how many times GWB was called a chimp, monkey, chimpanzee by one douche by name of Bill Maher – “Barack Obama, an actual college professor, replaced George Bush, an actual chimp.”
Respect from the left is always expected, but rarely returned. AKA mock Bush/Palin lynchings – Bush Nazi, and Piss Christ – all protected speech.
Rodeo clown – shrip shrip shrip.
Bill Maher still has a job. Protected. New Class apparat.
Apparat. <– Understand this word. And understand New Class.
Understand religion is part of man. You might not have G-d, but like bugs to an incandescent light man will find his religion. It's humanity and a part of us. Every person has something, manifested by every culture that has existed.
Religion is the best way to explain progressivism.
The New Class political apparat with help of low information voters who get their news from Comedy Central and HBO are easily rallied to defend the pope of their religion, publicly shaming the Thought Crime offender – he who dared insult dear leader.
The same establishment that tried to push the movie director narrative regarding our last 9/11. George Zimmerman – despite innocent till proven guilty and a dozen ballistic experts testifying it was impossible Zimmerman was not getting his head bashed-in when he pulled the trigger and not to mention a not guilty verdict – he is still in hiding and presumed guilty. And now the apparat has targeted this clown (pun intended) and he was fired. Fallout from the apparat caused the rodeo president to resign as well.
The apparat is dangerous – borderline fanatic. It's fraternal and requires allegiance. Cross them/embarrass them and you will loose the support of the coalition under the umbrella.
Sometimes the faith revered to the umbrella coalition lacks morality.
A great part for the silence of the Holocaust while it occurred – the power apparat. A great part for the silence from Dems regarding SD mayor Filner's womanizing – the apparat.
One SD politician, a SD Dem council woman was warned by the DNC to support Filner or else she would loose their support.
Whose support? The umbrella and their apparat.
The apparat creates news… I mean facts. And emails. Bullet points. Talking points.
Apparat: united to create the news, to socially punish impiety against the New Class (that is important to gain agency and fraternity with), permanent social media campaigns, and agitating public outrage to carry the narrative.
Speaking of media. WaPo being sold. The torch has been passed. Seems like the Silicon Valley tycoons are embracing their emerging status of princilings of the New Class. Enjoying the close cozy embrace of the public sector and ‘govt agencies which do not exist’ with the sector private.
Like the Kennedys and Rockefellers before them, the princlings work with gov’t to ensconce their industry/market share. Scratch mine, scratch yours. Damn to civil liberty, warrants, rule of law, and free markets.
The WaPost is so dumbed down it is becoming more appealing to the low info type (Comedy Central and HBO as news sources) than any one true news consumer. Up next, NYT; their only hopes: a good crossword, horoscope, and suduka.
There will always be low info consumers. That’s why Americans culturally joked (Cold War/80’s) and still joke on Pravda – there is always a low info market to cater which will literally buy the narrative. Which is why World News Daily is still in print!!!.
But is that good for the NYT and WaPo brands. Are Daily Show viewers really the coveted market share?
On a lighter side <– anyone remember Ted Danson and his black face. Racist.
@Nan G:
People are woefully ignorant of the proud tradition of rodeo clowns in America.
You forgot the promise to fundamentally transform America.
Redteam
on 82,
did you see and heard MARK LEVINE? THAT IS NOT TO BE MISS, HE IS RIGHT TO THE POINT,
AND NOBODY CAN DENY HIS TALKING POINT, HE IS STRAIGHT AND SHARP AS A KNIFE,
he simply gave us the solution to fix the problem, that is remove the cancer,
Those liberals don’t let me down!
Sensing growing frustration and despair accompanying plummeting poll numbers for Obama Harry Reid jumps into the fray to tamp it down:
So utterly predictable
don’t they see that it’s not color but ability to be a leader, BUT THEY USE THE RACE CARD BECAUSE THEY ARE SO DESPERATE, THEY CANNOT ADMIT HAVING CHOSEN THE ONE WHO CANNOT DO THE JOB RIGHT,
AND THE DEMOCRAT are stuck with it, AND LACK OF GUTS TO ADMIT IT,
and TIM SCOTT SEE IT, HE SEE HOW HARD AND HOW FAR THEY GO TO COVER THEIR BLINDNESS,,JUST LIKE HOW REID DID To MITT ROMNEY ,
HE WAS DIRTY AND DESPICABLE, OVER ONE THAT HE COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING TO CARRY IN THE DIRT,
SO TIM HAS THE GUTS TO PUBLICLY EXPOSE REID’S DIRT,
Indeed, Bees
so that’s OBAMA GAME, GET THE ONE NOT ON HIS LIST TO LOOSE THEIR JOBS,
AND SHUT THE BUSINESS,
NOW WE KNOW HOW IT’S OPERATING,
NO WANDER THERE IS NO JOBS TO BE FOUND IF YOUR NOT ON THE OBAMA LIST,
THAT IS INDEED TOTALITARIANISM BEHAVIOR,
I’m thinking First Amendment violation….hope this clown decides to sue….certainly Obama’s suck-ups have ridiculed our last POTUS as badly and suffered on penalty….life ban=over the top sucking upiness.