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Topic: Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask
alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Sun 08/11/13 08:57 PM
A clown wearing a mask intended to look like President Obama at the Missouri State Fair. The announcer asked the crowd if anyone wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to a spectator. “So then everybody screamed. ... They just went wild,” said Perry Beam, who attended the rodeo at the State Fair in Sedalia on Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. State Fair officials apologized calling the display inappropriate and disrespectful. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — 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." The antics led the state's second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, to denounce the performance in a tweet Sunday. He said it was "disrespectful" to the president. "We are better than this," the Republican tweeted. State Fair officials said the show in Sedalia was "inappropriate" and "does not reflect the opinions or standards" of the fair. "We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday's rodeo badly missed that mark," they said in a statement Sunday. It wasn't clear if any action will be taken against the performers. 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. About 15 minutes into the performance, the masked clown had to leave after a bull got too close, Beam said. Scott Holste, spokesman for Missouri's Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, said Sunday in an email that Nixon "agrees that the performance was disrespectful and offensive, and does not reflect the values of Missourians or the State Fair." Beam, who grew up attending the State Fair and attends the fair just about every year, said he has never seen anything like the Obama mask display, which he felt was inappropriate for a state-sanctioned event that receives state funding. "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. "If an old country boy picks up on something like that, imagine what a person of color would think."

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Sun 08/11/13 08:58 PM Edited by alleoops on Sun 08/11/13 08:59 PM
Another sad case when ODS rears its ugly head.

willing2 Joined Sun 06/08/08 Posts: 20221	Mon 08/12/13 05:39 AM
Tell me it would have been the same problem if it had been a Baby Bush mask.

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Mon 08/12/13 05:46 AM
Tell me it would have been the same problem if it had been a Baby Bush mask. not likely!

Sojourning_Soul Joined Fri 02/13/09 Posts: 10767	Mon 08/12/13 06:59 AM Edited by Sojourning_Soul on Mon 08/12/13 07:02 AM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy!

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Mon 08/12/13 04:22 PM Edited by alleoops on Mon 08/12/13 04:32 PM
Obama said that if he had a horse, he would look like that horses a$$.

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Mon 08/12/13 04:28 PM
Tell me it would have been the same problem if it had been a Baby Bush mask. during the BUSH PRESIDENCY? you bet,,,

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Mon 08/12/13 04:29 PM Edited by msharmony on Mon 08/12/13 04:30 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! I don't even see what it had to do with political policy it was a local event which had an incident inappropriate and disrespectful towards the sitting president but then again, I don't think highly of those who get excited at the idea of a bull mowing down ANYONE this country is full of scary folks,,,

Sojourning_Soul Joined Fri 02/13/09 Posts: 10767	Mon 08/12/13 04:52 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! I don't even see what it had to do with political policy it was a local event which had an incident inappropriate and disrespectful towards the sitting president but then again, I don't think highly of those who get excited at the idea of a bull mowing down ANYONE this country is full of scary folks,,, So all you see is a race card when most see bad policy they are suffering under? Explains a lot!

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Mon 08/12/13 04:54 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! I don't even see what it had to do with political policy it was a local event which had an incident inappropriate and disrespectful towards the sitting president but then again, I don't think highly of those who get excited at the idea of a bull mowing down ANYONE this country is full of scary folks,,, So all you see is a race card when most see bad policy they are suffering under? Explains a lot! don't know where I posted anything about race perhaps I am not the one who sees it everywhere? and in THIS article I see nothing relevant to bad policy I am suffering under I see an article about an event that included an attraction that was in bad taste,,

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Mon 08/12/13 05:50 PM


Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48912	Mon 08/12/13 06:04 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! No "they" have "taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes", and what happened at that rodeo was not a good joke.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Mon 08/12/13 06:12 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! No "they" have "taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes", and what happened at that rodeo was not a good joke. thats called an opinion, and maybe other peoples opinions thinks is is a good joke... just a thought, mister it's not a good joke...

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Mon 08/12/13 06:13 PM Edited by mightymoe on Mon 08/12/13 06:13 PM
They've taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes.....our ability to enjoy a good joke, freedom of expression and humorous entertainment is about all that's left for them to do away with Notice how it is quickly turned into a race card instead of one of political policy! No "they" have "taken our rights, our pensions, our money, our jobs and our homes", and what happened at that rodeo was not a good joke. thats called an opinion, and maybe other peoples opinions thinks is is a good joke... just a thought, mister it's not a good joke... and i guess your speaking for the millions that did lose their homes because they didn't have a job?

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Tue 08/13/13 12:55 PM
stupid libtards... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/13/211602534/rodeo-clown-who-wore-obama-mask-banned-from-state-fair

Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48912	Tue 08/13/13 01:11 PM
stupid libtards... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/13/211602534/rodeo-clown-who-wore-obama-mask-banned-from-state-fair Really? What that "clown" did was wrong. Even conservatives and Republicans know it.

willing2 Joined Sun 06/08/08 Posts: 20221	Tue 08/13/13 04:08 PM
Baby bush was routinely burned and hanged in effigy, while in office. What makes Hussein so special?

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Tue 08/13/13 04:25 PM
stupid libtards... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/13/211602534/rodeo-clown-who-wore-obama-mask-banned-from-state-fair Really? What that "clown" did was wrong. Even conservatives and Republicans know it. Why?

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Tue 08/13/13 04:45 PM
A clown wearing a mask intended to look like President Obama at the Missouri State Fair. The announcer asked the crowd if anyone wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to a spectator. “So then everybody screamed. ... They just went wild,” said Perry Beam, who attended the rodeo at the State Fair in Sedalia on Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. State Fair officials apologized calling the display inappropriate and disrespectful. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — 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." The antics led the state's second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, to denounce the performance in a tweet Sunday. He said it was "disrespectful" to the president. "We are better than this," the Republican tweeted. State Fair officials said the show in Sedalia was "inappropriate" and "does not reflect the opinions or standards" of the fair. "We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday's rodeo badly missed that mark," they said in a statement Sunday. It wasn't clear if any action will be taken against the performers. 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. About 15 minutes into the performance, the masked clown had to leave after a bull got too close, Beam said. Scott Holste, spokesman for Missouri's Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, said Sunday in an email that Nixon "agrees that the performance was disrespectful and offensive, and does not reflect the values of Missourians or the State Fair." Beam, who grew up attending the State Fair and attends the fair just about every year, said he has never seen anything like the Obama mask display, which he felt was inappropriate for a state-sanctioned event that receives state funding. "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. "If an old country boy picks up on something like that, imagine what a person of color would think." That's so f'ing awesome!

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Tue 08/13/13 04:49 PM
Baby bush was routinely burned and hanged in effigy, while in office. What makes Hussein so special? Because he uses the CIA, IRS, FBI and Secret Service like the Nazi's used the Gestapo. I feel sorry for this clown, I have a hunch they will suicide him or set him up for something really bad.