Who Are The Real Clowns?

 

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A clown wearing a President Barack Obama mask appeared at a Missouri State Fair rodeo this weekend and the announcer asked the enthusiastic spectators if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull.” [...]

Perry Beam, who was among the spectators, said “everybody screamed” and “just went wild” as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask.

“It was at that point I began to feel a sense of fear. It was that level of enthusiasm,” Beam, a 48-year-old musician from Higginsville, said Sunday, referring to the reaction from the crowd that filled the fair’s grandstand.

He said another clown ran up to the one wearing the Obama mask, pretended to tickle him and played with the lips on the mask. [...]

“It was the usual until the very end at bull riding,” he said. “As they were bringing the bulls into the chute and prepping them ... they bring out what looks like a dummy. The announcer says ‘Here’s our Obama dummy, or our dummy of Obama.

“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam said. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”

-- The Washington Post

We have televised Klan rallies? Since when? But wait, it gets even better :


From the Republicans:



From the Democrats:

Scott Holste, spokesman for Missouri's Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, said Sunday in an e-mail that Nixon "agrees that the performance was disrespectful and offensive, and does not reflect the values of Missourians or the State Fair."

“If what’s being reported is true, then it’s shameful and it’s unacceptable. The State Fair is funded by taxpayer dollars, and is supposed to be a place where we can all bring our families and celebrate the state that we love. But the young Missourians who witnessed this stunt learned exactly the wrong lesson about political discourse-that somehow it’s ever acceptable to, in a public event, disrespect, taunt, and joke about harming the President of our great nation. Missouri is better than this, and I expect someone to be held accountable.” -- Senator Claire McCaskill

Again from the one State Fair attendee who posted his complaint on Showmeprogress.com which caused the ruckus:

"This isn't the Republican Missouri State Fair," Beam said. "It was cruel. It was disturbing. I'm still sick to my stomach over it. ... I'm standing here with a mixed-race family. My wife's from Taiwan, and so was the student (his family was hosting). I've never seen anything so blatantly racist in my life.

-- USAToday

 

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Comments

[The Ancient]

There's a store in downtown DC that sells rubber masks of every president since Nixon -- as well as a few of unsuccessful candidates (Dukakis, Gore, Dole).

I have one of Tip O'Neill, and in days long gone by, I would wear it when I opened the front door on Halloween Night, holding out a bowl of candy, and proclaiming, in my best Boston Irish accent, "Here is the smoking gun of the Reagan Unfairness!"
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You know what they say about people you can't take a joke...

[A.Men]

I wish I could have been there to cheer the obomba clown at the rodeo. I think all events should sport obomba masks.

I'm going to Amazon and buy an obomba mask.

No one ever had a problem with Nixon and George W. Bush masks!!!

[The Ancient]

"You know what they say about people who can't take a joke..."

(Whatever happened to all those cute typists?)

[Mrs. P]

When people stopped taking jokes -October 1993:

Ted Danson Panned After Blackface Appearance

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NEW YORK - Whoopi Goldberg laughed, as did most of the audience at her Friars Club roast. But boyfriend Ted Danson's appearance in blackface and his racially peppered jokes angered Mayor David Dinkins, talk show host Montel Williams and others.

"I was confused as to whether or not I was at a Friars event or at a rally for the KKK and Aryan Nation," Williams said in a telegram to the Friars announcing his resignation from the entertainment-industry club.

Dinkins said the jokes at Friday's roast "were pretty vulgar and many were way, way over the line."

The uproar came over Danson's arrival on the dais at the 89th annual roast. The Emmy-winning "Cheers" star was in Jolson-esque blackface makeup, with huge white lips, wearing a tuxedo and top hat.

Goldberg defended Danson, saying, "It takes a whole lot of (courage) to come out in blackface . . . I don't care if you don't like it. I do."

Dinkins, who left early, said he was embarrassed for Goldberg and felt "a tremendous sense of relief when it was over."

Williams walked off the dais seven minutes into Danson's monologue.

"When Ted made the jokes about the racially mixed kids, and everyone knows my wife is white and just gave birth to our child, I could see my wife start to cry," he said. "If that's what Whoopi and Ted find funny in their bedroom, it's not funny to the outside world."

Publicists for Danson and Goldberg did not return phone messages yesterday.

Bob Saks, chairman of the Friars Club celebrity luncheons, said Danson's routine was misconstrued by the media, the mayor and Williams.

In a statement yesterday, the Friars said they were "saddened by the racially offensive nature of some of the material. . . . We apologize to Mayor Dinkins, Montel Williams and all others who were offended by the racial remarks."

Copyright (c) 1993 Seattle Times Company, All Rights Reserved.

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Danson and Goldberg met on a movie set and became a couple. He left his wife for her, paying his wife 30 million. Whoopi admitted she wrote most of the jokes and hired the makeup artist. That didn't matter -- Danson was a racist. Not surprisingly, the relationship didn't survive.

[Mrs. P]

Notice both Montel and the viewer of the rodeo clown both are well acquainted with KKK rallies.