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Missouri State Fair officials apologize for rodeo clown who wore Obama mask
WaPo ^ | 8/12/13 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 08/12/2013 2:26:44 PM PDT by ColdOne

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To: ColdOne

Dissent Is Patriotic!!!

41 posted on 08/12/2013 2:49:39 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL Very good!!


42 posted on 08/12/2013 2:50:17 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: ColdOne

Lacy Clay needs to do some studying of history of USA politics to ease her conscience. In fact she only needs to review the last 50 or so years. This the kind of government representative who is handling our Constitutional rights? The state of Missouri should be ashamed of It’s self for acting in such a deprivation of freedom of expression. Maybe there is a civil rights case here. Of course I have to admit I enjoyed what I saw and heard and felt a tinge of truth.


43 posted on 08/12/2013 2:52:10 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: a fool in paradise

bump


44 posted on 08/12/2013 2:52:13 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Heartlander
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” ― Voltaire  

 

nailed it and worth repeating

45 posted on 08/12/2013 2:52:22 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ColdOne

The Washington Post considers this news.

They work for BO and they won’t admit it.

They are sold. After how many years as a dynasty business?

Just, sold.

Anyone who wonders what the future holds for BO supporters of any kind is just not paying any attention.


46 posted on 08/12/2013 2:52:37 PM PDT by stanne
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To: a fool in paradise

yup


47 posted on 08/12/2013 2:52:59 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ColdOne
"I am amazed that in 2013, such hatred, intolerance and disrespect towards the President of the United States could take place"

Well, Ms. Democrat suck-ass,

I'm amazed that such hatred for We The People and the U.S. Constitution, as intended, ignoring of laws and selective enforcement of Laws, and disrespect for the OFFICE OF the President of the United States itself could take place BY THE INELIGIBLE TOKEN BLACK jackass that was voter-fraud-elected to the Office, myself.

Get a grip, you fool.

Actually, dressing as a clown is a factual representation of the current Occupant, but the piles of manure around the rodeo corral were more representative of his Agenda.....

48 posted on 08/12/2013 2:54:09 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: ColdOne
Our fair is supposed to showcase the best of Missouri, instead, it showed an ugly face of intolerance and ignorance to the world.”

They are right.

They showed the ugly face of intolerance and ignorance to the world. (Obama's)

49 posted on 08/12/2013 2:54:15 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: mountn man
What differance does it make?
50 posted on 08/12/2013 2:57:26 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: TurboZamboni

Hardihar. Wish I’d ‘a’ been there.


51 posted on 08/12/2013 2:59:39 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Washington Post brought down a president over a case of wiretapping of political enemies.

Now they are reduced to tattling on a rodeo clown to their boss.

That is to what they have been reduced.

That and being sold for cash:

from some publication, dated 5 aug:

The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations.


52 posted on 08/12/2013 3:01:51 PM PDT by stanne
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To: ColdOne
I have a little different take on this.

Rodeo Clowns do one of the most dangerous jobs imaginable--keeping a dangerous and possibly lethal animal away from a downed rider.

They make it look like fun, but they are athletes who also know animal behaviour at a level where their lives--and the lives of others--depend on it--all jokes aside.

Obama doesn't deserve the honor of having his face on a Rodeo Clown. He isn't the best Missouri has to offer. His face has been the face of intolerance and ignorance in America.

The Rodeo folks are right to issue an apology for doing that...

Something on the order of "We're sorry we used the face of of a man who is ignorant and racially intolerant on one of our clowns. We owe rodeo clowns everywhere an apology, and apologize to any fans who were offended or traumatized..."

53 posted on 08/12/2013 3:01:54 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Our fair is supposed to showcase the best of Missouri, instead, it showed an ugly face of intolerance and ignorance to the world.

...........................................................
It showed me that the people who run the Fair are a lily livered pack of Obama butt sucking cowards.

I am not from Missouri, but these guys showed me Cowardice.


54 posted on 08/12/2013 3:02:13 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: ColdOne

Where was he when Bush was Prez?


55 posted on 08/12/2013 3:02:45 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: Venturer
"Our fair is supposed to showcase the best of Missouri, instead, it showed an ugly face of intolerance and ignorance to the world."

That face was Obama's, "...an ugly face of intolerance and ignorance...", as the pressure for just such an apology proves.

Definitely not the best Missouri has to offer (I'm sure they can do better without dragging an alleged Hawaiian in).

Sometimes an apology isn't an apology, if you get my drift.

56 posted on 08/12/2013 3:08:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: ColdOne

“The rodeo clown has been banned from participating in the state fair again.”

Ridiculous. Anyone remember how President George W. Bush was treated?


57 posted on 08/12/2013 3:13:31 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: ColdOne
Agreed that no apology was necessary.

The only factor I see against the clown's act is that it was at a publicly-funded event. I don't like my tax dollars being used to support leftist causes, so out of fairness maybe tax dollars should not be used to poke fun at Obama either (as much as I hate to admit it).

58 posted on 08/12/2013 3:14:27 PM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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To: ColdOne

What state fair or other officials ever apologized for Reagan, Nixon, and Bush masks?


59 posted on 08/12/2013 3:19:28 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: ColdOne
Bush masks were OK. Protesters with Bush about to get the guillotine was no problem for the Left.

Signs that said such things as:
“Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush”

A protester with a sign saying “Kill Bush” and advocating that the White House be bombed, at the March 18, 2007 anti-war rally in San Francisco.

A protester with a sign showing Bush being beheaded.

These went pretty much unreported by the Left.

Lots of pictures from the hypocrites on the other side of the aisle at this site:

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

60 posted on 08/12/2013 3:27:19 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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