Rodeo clown with Obama mask has big defender: Rush Limbaugh

You're usually much lamer than this, Foofie. What's become of you?

More deep delusion, Foofie. You completely avoided the part where the historical record points up that the US has done nothing but rape and pillage countries the world over.

If you are content to have been lied to your whole life, if you are content to have successive US governments act like a vicious band of pirates, like the worst terrorists imaginable, if you are content to have your tax dollars used to rape, torture and murder innocents, poison children, then by all means live your simple minded life.

quit reading this thread a long time back. Just saw this post. My words were aimed at another, not you, Thomas. I don't recall offhand who, but I do know it was another.

how do you know that is the case?

Let me rephrase: "How come I'm the first one, on page 10 and day 7, who posted any effort to reality-check this to the thread?"

You are the only one who knows why you chose to post about your viewing and conclusions 8 pages after you said

http://able2know.org/topic/220289-2#post-5414103

True enough. I should have said "to this report", not "to this event". And, I have learned by experience not to trust my immediate reaction --- to anything. So you're right. I shouldn't have assumed that the report accurately describes the event, and shouldn't have trusted my immediate interpretation of the report.

Mebbe fear. Fear that you will have a club with which to hit him/her with. Cowardly people often hide, not revealing much about themselves. These timid folks will cower behind their computer like a broken record stuck in a rut singing the same ole same ole one-note tune, no variation. Something is disturbing the individual, badly, else he would change tunes once in a while. Wonder what he is trying to hide. Better to ignore people who are this afraid to give any information about themselves. They might be bad news.

and - for free - I'll tell you that what I found odd about the various clips I watched/heard at the beginning was the weird Vern voice the announcer put on every time he mentioned Obama

I actually thought he was trying to heat up the crowd against the clown/Obama - unsuccessfully - and kept pushing


(people do go for the announcers in some cases - rodeo announcers can be well-known, and followed, in the circuit, much like baseball/hockey announcers)

Fair enough. Thanks for the good price.

That has to be the most eloquent insult I have ever seen.

You post a comment in an internet discussion forum and you invite all responses. I've no problem with the umbrage you've taken (in any way) but you asked what right I have to comment on your post.

To a great degree you are right, but that there are willing subjects doesn't mean everyone has to treat the president like a king.

No, this is racist and deplorable.

It is unquestionably racist but there is a very unfortunate element here which suggests that native Africans are worthy of ridicule and therefore comparing a black American to them is insulting. I don't mean to suggest you think this way of Africans, but this sort of base nonsense disturbs me on several levels.

If you feel the need to identify it, you shouldn't use it.

Frank is an editorial writer of long standing, Finn. He doesn't need advice from amateurs.

The guy is a rodeo clown.

How is a rodeo clown going to lampoon anyone?

Doing acerbic stand-up for 10 minutes while a raging bull lines him up for a charge?

No, he is going to invite the bull to charge the figure he is lampooning. Whether that figure is white; black; red; yellow; male; female; straight; gay; liberal; conservative; Christian; Muslim or Atheist.

When Bush was president there were black comedians doing outrageous routines about him in front of largely black audiences.

So what?

The comedians probably didn't like Bush but, whether they did or not, they understood their audiences didn't and would appreciate the routines.

The rodeo clown is white and performed before a largely white audience that attends rodeos rather than comedy clubs featuring pithy urban black comedians.He rightly surmised they aren't big fans of Obama.

What is the difference?

If you are at a rodeo, a comedy club, a musical concert etc and the performer offends you...leave. You are not a hero by making a big stink about it and posting videos on YouTube, you are simply a fame whore.

There is a large segment of our population today that moves through life hoping they will be offended so they can get a chance to "reveal the ugly truth," and spout off.

What really bugs me is the apparent assumption made by a lot more people than is healthy, that if someone doesn't like Obama, or ridicules Obama or even criticizes Obama then that person is guilty of racial animus.

It is an attempt at intimidating people with whom you don't agree.

"You better either praise the man or keep your mouth shut or we're going to sew a big red "R" on your shirt!"

It is so intellectually pathetic it makes we want to slap the people who do it.

Unfortunately, so many of them don't even know what they are doing. They've been so thoroughly programmed that they just react to these things like Pavlov's dogs.

The country is going to hell in a handbasket and the world is aflame and people are bent out of shape about a rodeo clown?

Do you see any of that here at A2K, Finn?

Of course.

People here do it all the time and not only in the way I have addressed.

You do it.

There is, I think, a difference between attempted intimidation by force of intellect and by specious allegation.

You, by the way, have attempted both methods.

Because...

...because why?

Is it written somewhere, "Thou shalt not use sarcasm...if you feel the need to identify it?"

I must have missed that.

(More sarcasm!)