and only 1/2 negro at that...
Posted on 08/12/2013 7:56:48 AM PDT by IbJensen
Announcers at the Missouri State Fair rodeo are under fire for comments they made during a bull-riding event as participants mocked a clown dressed as President Obama. NBC's Mara Schiavacampo reports.
A rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair put on a mask of President Barack Obama, and an announcer asked an enthusiastic crowd whether they wanted to see “Obama trampled by a bull,” according to a witness and video posted online.
Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, said through a spokesman that the antics were “disrespectful and offensive,” and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, said on Twitter: “We are better than this.”
A fair-goer, Perry Beam, posted his account on social media. Video of the stunt aired by NBC affiliate KSHB in Kansas City, Mo., records a rodeo announcer saying, “We’re gonna smoke Obama, man.”
“The crowd went absolutely nuts,” Beam told KSHB.
Beam said another clown ran up to the one wearing the Obama mask and played with the lips on the mask. About 15 minutes into the performance, a bull got too close and the clown in the mask had to leave, Beam told The Associated Press.
“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam told the AP. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”
The Missouri State Fair, in a statement emailed to NBC News, called the performance disrespectful and said: “We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday’s rodeo badly missed that mark.”
A spokeswoman told NBC News that State Fair representatives would not immediately answer questions beyond the statement.
The Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, in its own statement, said it was “dealing with the situation firmly and quickly.”
“The Sport of Rodeo is not meant to be a political platform,” the association said. “We are taking measures by training and educating our contract acts to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.”
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, pointed out in a statement that the State Fair gets taxpayer money and said that young people who attended got the wrong lesson about political discourse.
“Missouri is better than this, and I expect someone to be held accountable,” she said.
This is national news?"
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Of course, just NBC using the most powerful tool they have, the spike.
This story is filler so they don't have to cover the smoking gun (smoking howitzer actually) of the connection and communication between Lois Lerner (IRS crook pleading the 5th) and the FEC headed by... wait for it... the husband of Anita Dunn.
You remember Anita, the woman with a love of mass murderer Chairman Mao and one of many in the administration who have repeated the phrase that they know the Free Market is a joke and real power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Seems Lois had at least one real damned good reason to plead the 5th as the IRS and FEC collaborating to get "Citizens United" was highly illegal.
Or just maybe NBC didn't want to cover the Constitutional Crisis and highly illegal act (if not just another cover up to save the messiah's ass) of Valerie Jarrett claiming to be the one issuing the Stand Down Orders that got 4 Americans killed.
You could start an entire new news network that only carried the stories the MSM spiked because they did not support their socialist/communist agenda.
There no more powerful tool in media/journalism than the spike.
I agree. There's no need to go insulting rodeo clowns.
Well whatever you want to call it....it’s yours.
And in obamatime simple mocking is immediately compared to KKK actions.
obama, the gift that keeps giving.
“It was sickening,” Beam told the AP. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.””
What’s sickening are the double standards they live by and how they expect the rest of the world not to care or even notice.
Fags hate. Men rodeo, they prefer animal sex. Just another utility brick to further attempt at castrating America and local customs, all to be surrendered to the state.
And don’t forget to remind them to take Claire McGasket, Barbara Boxcar, Janet Fineswine, Hairy Reed, Schmuckie Schumer, Little Dick Durban, Sheila Jackass Lee, Baby Fat Landrieu, Sherod Brown, and a whole trainload of other filthy swine. Oh. I forgot Washerwoman Schultz.
We have got so much garbage running this pitiful nation that it’s a wonder it hasn’t completely died by now.
Indeed, they had no prolem with Borat trashing white people and America on the rodeo.
Because nobody ever wore a Nixon or Bush mask, or a Reagan one for that matter.
We have a clown dressed as POTUS...whats the big deal
Who cares? State leaders denounced it but the people loved it. obama will leave office the most widely despised president ever.
Maybe so, but is Obama?
Love it.
Hey Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, you know what is disrespectful and not to mention traitorous?
Spending billions of our tax dollars to bail out GM and then also spending our money for them to move industrial capacity to China. Or running guns to Mexican drug lords. Or standing down in Benghazi. Or using the IRS to spy on those who dare to dissent.
I could go on with this disrespect list, Gov. Jay Nixon, Democrat. So FUBO and FUJN.
It couldn’t be a Klan rally because they were not all Democrats, and they didn’t burn a cross.
Not to mention what was done to Sarah Palin.
and only 1/2 negro at that...
After all the crap shoveled at GWB for eight years, and ... lo and behold ... we’re talking about “proper political discourse?”
Please...
“Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, pointed out in a statement that the State Fair gets taxpayer money and said that young people who attended got the wrong lesson about political discourse.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA. LGBTs can dress like sexual deviants and romp around in public parades, but that is a lesson in diversity. A clown dresses like a clown and he is denounced.
Rodeo clowns making fun of politicians has been going on oh... since rodeos were invented.
I think this may have just been the first time the media noticed.
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