Rodeo clown with Obama mask has big defender: Rush Limbaugh

ehBeth wrote:

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

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My immediate reaction to this event is that it's racism run rampant.

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.

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.

What specifically, in that pathetic 3 minutes of tape, do you see as informing us that the happening was not racist or that the audience did not react to racial baiting as reported?

Frank Apisa wrote:

What specifically, in that pathetic 3 minutes of tape, do you see as informing us that the happening was not racist or that the audience did not react to racial baiting as reported?

(1) Pathetic or not, the video's view on the happening is about the same that the original complainant, Perry Beam, would have had. It's the perspective of a regular audience member looking at a fast-moving scene, with neither a zoom lense nor slow-motion playback to hand. So if the video's information value is so pathetic that I can't draw any conclusions from it, it's a mystery how Mr. Beam could, looking at things from a similar perspective. And with no good information to go on, the whole thread would be moot. There would no credible complaint to begin with. If that's your takeaway, you have my --- excuse my language --- blessing.

(2) Notwithstanding your standard "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" chestnut, the audio track of the video does provide evidence of absence of a key claim of Mr. Beam's: "'Everybody screamed' and 'just went wild' when the rodeo announcer talked about stomping the clown, Beam told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch." If this was true, we would hear it on the tape --- and we don't. So yes, the video does contain information to check Mr. Beam's story against.

No, it doesn't. It is only three minutes of tape...of an event that took hours.

But you are determined to see nothing racial in the happening...and nothing racial will ever appear to you.

I should know better than to glom onto second or third person accounts by now.

I have also reconsidered my first reaction to the written description. I should know better than to glom onto second or third person accounts by now.

just because Obama is part bkack does not mean that dislike or making fun of him is due to his being part black.

maybe it is and maybe it is not......

there are lots of good reasons to not like him and/or make fun of him. this particular event looks to be reds making fun of one of the blue leaders, which is reasonable given how adamant Obama is that being cheerleader for Dem causes is more important to him than is his obligation to represent and lead all of america.

it is rather amazing what does and does not get Americans attention.

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.

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