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.
The Missourians who should be held accountable are those who elected this Demonrat clown to the Senate!
The Kenyan demands 'respect' he has never earned, and pitches a fit at any perceived slight.
Let the 1A political discourse continue, even if the boy king doesn't approve!
Precisely why the left kicks our ass*s up, down and sideways 24/7/365...fight back, girls.
Obama’s worshipers need to pull up their big boy panties and get over themselves. They have NO problem when the MSM or liberal politicians go after conservative women.
Sounds like it was hilarious fun!
Let me know when they make a Motion Picture about Assassinating Obama like they with President Bush.
Boo friggin hoo.
Let me know when they make a Motion Picture about Assassinating Obama like they DID with President Bush.
Boo friggin hoo.
Fixed it...
Robert Byrd knew.
“How’s the income from those Missouri “rest homes” Claire ?”
Not as good as the houses she flipped five or six years ago, but it’ll do.
How come every POTUS I can remember has been mocked, but somehow the Kenyan Idjit can’t be? Perhaps my question answers itself. /rhetorical
so what is the job of a clown???
to entertain, to make people laugh, enjoy and have fun...well in my book...OBAMA fill them all..
the biggest clown ever to have been put into a public office, even he he had to buy his way in..
hurry up 2016..wake up AMERICANS...vote these clowns out...
If the Won was doing his job, per the Constitution, he wouldn’t be portrayed as the clown that he actually is. My goodness, he’s making a habitual mockery of the office he occupies?
Much less so than the Kenyan himself.
Well to tell the family secret, his grandmother was Dutch.
bull fighters/rodeo clowns are a serious profession The rodeo clown /bull fighter has a history that the useful idiots and enemy of our constitution and way of life choose to remain ignorant of. This Claire McCaskill is the same enemy of our Constitution who worked with Senator Obama and Hillary Clinton to grease the skids with corruption to circumvent the constitutional requirements for the Office of the President to allow the Communist usurper into Office to begin with.The first amendment to our constitution allows for political speech as protected speech.I weary of the Jacki Progressives who insist it is protected speech for their kind to desecrate Our flag even those that are stolen by their abid Communist instigated mobs yet claim it inappropriate for a Rodeo Clown to perform at the peak of his profession?Political satire has long been accepted speech. the Rodeo Clown/Bullfighter— is Not in any way on the payroll of the Communist queer in the WhiteHouse— I see nothing to suggest the bullfighter was a member of the US Military—or the National Guard Or Congress thus subject to the stifling prohibitions and protocol common to our military.so hisRodeoperformance was properand protected political satire.Far unlike the enmey who routinely performed suggestingPresident bush ought be assasinated— or Ronald Reagan should die in cellebratory comment about his affliction. Claire McCaskill is an enemy who has worked to subvert the very Constitution she is purportedly sworn to defend Her public opinion is an offense to the Patriot it is the rodeo clown /Bullfighter I salute and will defend.
As Homer Simpson once said: “There’s nothing in the world more beautiful than a Monkey in a Cowboy suit!”
I still remember LBJ catching hell at rodeos back in the 1960s.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.