Posted on 08/04/2011 9:16:12 AM PDT by Realman30
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (The Blaze/AP) — The University of Tennessee bookstore has quit selling packages of breath mints that satirize President Barack Obama after a state legislator complained
The box bears a picture of Obama and is labeled “disappoint-mints.” Officials pulled the product after Democratic state Rep. Joe Armstrong visited the bookstore and told the manager he found the mints offensive.
Armstrong told The Knoxville News Sentinel that UT uses federal and state funds and should be sensitive to what he called “politically specific products.”
The Knoxville legislator says he went to the bookstore after a UT student complained to him about the mints.
Bookstore director David Kent said the bookstore previously carried mints that satirized former President George W. Bush and said no offense was intended.
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According to them that’s “Freedom of Expression.”
Are these liberals such big babies that this mild humor at the president’s expense is truly worth losing sleep over??????
And, because this good Democrat found the mints “offensive”, that mandates their removal???????
This could easily be misinterpreted as satire, yet it actually happened.
If this were reversed, critical of Bush, for example, we would be lectured about freedom of speech issues.
But because some Democrat busy body is “offended”, this product has to be removed.
Amazing.............
For all I know the manager is a liberal who was glad to have an excuse to get rid of the item, but he may also have worried that the legislator would make a public stink over the issue or use his political clout against the bookstore (like trying to get its state funding reduced).
LOL I get “this page no longer available” he must not like the emails he’s been getting?
District Address 4708 Hilldale Drive Knoxville, TN 37914
Nashville Address 35 Legislative Plaza Nashville, TN 37243
Phone - (615) 741-0768 Fax - 615-253-0316
email - rep.joe.armstrong@capitol.tn.gov
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