Rep. Stockman invites rodeo clown to Texas

[RobDownSouth]

Quelle surprise about Stockman.

He's an AJ-class political opportunist.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Let's bring back burnings in effigy.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The most hilarious thing about 'ClownGate' has been the absolutely irrational reaction by the left, and most especially by the NAACP. I mean these people are actually taking the actions of a clown seriously.

Ishmael

Glittering generalities much, old man?

I thought it was poor taste, but it did not rise to the level I'd call "racist".

You, however, are a racist.

 

[phrodeau]

So we have this rodeo clown, an entertainer, who criticized a politician being persecuted and blacklisted and instead of sympathy for him, we attack him and anyone who defends his right to free speech.

I mean this thing is so backwards it would have been unbelievable in the America of just a couple of years ago. I remember one of the examples they gave us in school of "tyrannical governments" were those that made it a crime to criticize or make fun of the country's leaders.

In my wildest nightmares just a few years ago I never thought I would live in a country like this. We are not a free country anymore which is still kind of hard to get my head around.

He was employed by the state of Missouri to provide family entertainment. He went out of line and was fired.

He was not jailed or fined. He was simply fired for poor job performance.

solved. Finally we can deal with a real problem. Obama masks on rodeo clowns. Didn't they make an entire movie about bank robbers wearing president masks?

There are people saying such things are common. Which other state fairs have rodeo clowns in Obama masks?

The most hilarious thing about 'ClownGate' has been the absolutely irrational reaction by the left, and most especially by the NAACP. I mean these people are actually taking the actions of a clown seriously.

Ishmael

Any performance in front of children should be taken seriously. That's a no-brainer.

Let's bring back burnings in effigy.

In City Hall on the public dime, sure.

 

[BotanyBoy]

solved. Finally we can deal with a real problem. Obama masks on rodeo clowns. Didn't they make an entire movie about bank robbers wearing president masks?

The left wing calling for the persecution of free speech isn't a problem?

Glittering generalities much, old man?

I thought it was poor taste, but it did not rise to the level I'd call "racist".

You, however, are a racist.

You must not be paying very much attention to your fellow LOONZ then b/c they are acting like this guy put a loaded gun to Obubbmers head.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The left wing calling for the persecution of free speech isn't a problem?



You must not be paying very much attention to your fellow LOONZ then b/c they are acting like this guy put a loaded gun to Obubbmers head.

Not ALL left wingers are up in arms. YES, the usual suspects on the left are outraged...OUTRAGED, DAMMIT! But like their right-wing counterparts, that's what they do.

I urge you not to paint with such a broad brush...that's Ishmael's job.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Not ALL left wingers are up in arms.

Bitch please....It all started with left rage and too many people jumped on the "YEA FUCK THAT REDNECK AND HIS RIGHTS!! OUR FAVORITE POTUS IS LEGALLY ABOVE REPROACH GOD DAMN IT!!" bandwagon before they realized what hypocritical douche guzzlers they were looking like. Now it's too late to hit the brakes and the wagon is gone off the trail so they are just going for the gold with it and the REPOHZ are using it to gain some DESPERATELY needed image capital.

Left lost this round man...and they are going to have to eat the black eye that comes with firing someone for doing their job, entertaining with jokes made at your political icons expense and getting spastically butthurt over it.

Take the spanking, chin up and just give the GOP 5 min.....they can't help but hurt themselves like a cat playing with a razor blade.

YES, the usual suspects on the left are outraged...OUTRAGED, DAMMIT! But like their right-wing counterparts, that's what they do.

Doesn't make it any less douchey SDG and you know it.

I urge you not to paint with such a broad brush...that's Ishmael's job.

I'm not...I know you don't b/c despite your LOONY left bullshit you do have a few brain cells fire off every now and then but as far as I have seen you're in the minority here bubbs b/c both sides are trying to polarize and make this the biggest deal possible. I don't understand why....but they are....idiots all of them.

Unlike the lemmings in your party who went pedal to the metal on this one
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you knew better than to hop on board. Congratulations...you might not be as nutty as I thought.

 

[Ishmael]

Any performance in front of children should be taken seriously. That's a no-brainer.

Ahhh, it's "For the Children." What a happy load of horseshit that is.

Ishmael

 

[phrodeau]

Leave it to BotanyBoy to stand up for a clown who can't do his job properly.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Leave it to BotanyBoy to stand up for a clown who can't do his job properly.

Vetty did that with Dubya for 8 years.

"Recession? In a Republican administration? Unpossible!"

 

[BotanyBoy]

Vetty did that with Dubya for 8 years.

"Recession? In a Republican administration? Unpossible!"

http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/i_lold_puppy.jpg?w=720

 

[run_silent]

This is just a tempest in a teapot. Some folks just want to be outraged. Life is too short for this silliness.

 

[renard_ruse]

He was employed by the state of Missouri to provide family entertainment. He went out of line and was fired.

He was not jailed or fined. He was simply fired for poor job performance.

From what I heard, he has been blacklisted from working at any rodeo again.

Sound a little like McCarthyism to ya?

 

[renard_ruse]

This is just a tempest in a teapot. Some folks just want to be outraged. Life is too short for this silliness.

No, it seems to be part of a pattern of dredging up black-white animosity in the past few months.

Things in the news don't just happen. Well, some major events do, but a trend doesn't. We had the whole Zimmerman case phrased as a race issue, we had the Oprah thing, we have any criticism of Obama being called "racism," and some other things that slip my mind at the moment, just in the past month or two stirring up black-white animmosity.

What happened to the gays? The Gay Question dominated the news for months, along with Latino and immigration issues. Now, suddenly, its black vs. white is the big thing. Why have the gays been moved lower on the front page all of a sudden?

Obviously its got something to do with the run up to 2014 and the Congressional elections next year. Making sure there's a massive black turnout like 2008 and 2012, which didn't happen in 2010, would be my guess, though there could be a more hidden reason. I'm not sure.

 

[phrodeau]

From what I heard, he has been blacklisted from working at any rodeo again.

Sound a little like McCarthyism to ya?

Not true. He was fired and banned for life from the Missouri State Fair rodeo only.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He was employed by the state of Missouri to provide family entertainment. He went out of line and was fired.

He was not jailed or fined. He was simply fired for poor job performance.

There are people saying such things are common. Which other state fairs have rodeo clowns in Obama masks?

Any performance in front of children should be taken seriously. That's a no-brainer.

In City Hall on the public dime, sure.

No he wasn't. And this is a perfect example of how the Left uses it's LIVEs and tools for an electronic lynch mob to destroy anybody or anything that counters their philosophy, for they cannot defend it with reason. Further exacerbating the tactic of the mindless vigilante mob is the fear from normal people that they might be the next Sarah Palin, the next Joe, the Plumber, or the next rodeo clown...

How a Missouri Rodeo Became a Phony Scandal
Jack Cashill, Ph.D.
August 19, 2013, American Thinker

If an eccentric, liberal, nudist musician had not attended a rodeo at the Missouri State Fair a week ago Saturday, the world would be a slightly happier place. The State Fair would not have banned rodeo clown Tuffy Gessling for life. The NAACP would not have asked the Secret Service to investigate Tuffy for a "hate crime." His clown colleagues would not have been dispatched to sensitivity training. And race tension nationwide would not have ratcheted up another notch.

But the eccentric in question, Perry Beam, did attend the rodeo. He took his wife and a Taiwanese student with him. When Tuffy donned an Obama mask, Beam grew concerned. When the crowd egged the clown on, Beam grew uneasy. But when another clown started bobbling the lips on the mask, well, that sent Beam "over the top." The student recorded it all on his video camera.

Repelled by what he had seen, the exquisitely sensitive Beam fled the fair with wife and student in tow. The normally inquisitive student asked no questions about what he had witnessed.* "In a way," says Beam, "I'm glad. I had no answers for him." They rode the sixty miles home in shamed silence.

The whole affair might have ended on Beam's Facebook page had it not been for the intervention of a professor friend of Beam's, a garden variety leftist named Bob Yates. Beam gives Yates credit for forwarding the information "to the appropriate blogs" and that, says Beam, "got the ball rolling."

By 7:30 a.m. Sunday, less than twelve hours after the soon to be infamous rodeo, "MoDem," likely the nom de guerre of Yates himself, had posted a photo essay on both the Daily Kos and Show Me Progress sites. He concluded his commentary with the less than merciful, "I can't write anymore at how disgusting this is. All I want is some heads to roll." And roll they would.

Liberal tom-toms beat double time all day Sunday. That afternoon Jeff Mazur, a union honcho and former media guy for Democratic governor Jay Nixon, took to Twitter to spread the word about the rodeo's "barely-veiled racism, anti-Americanism and violence fantasies." Later that evening, Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill branded the whole affair as "shameful."

By Monday, the story was front-page news with the liberal spin fully woven into the warp and woof. The USA Today quoted Beam as saying of the rodeo, "It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you'd see on TV." Beam, a Hillary enthusiast, may have been the only one at the rodeo to feel that way, but he had kindred spirits aplenty in every major American newsroom. (For verification, watch HBO's self-parodying Newsroom.)

At this point, the Republican front line did what it almost always does in the face of a Democratic media offensive. It collapsed. The right's paid professionals -- elected officials and media nabobs both -- ran for cover. Missouri Lieutenant Governor Pete Kinder, a Republican, was soon imploring Nixon "to hold the people responsible for the other night accountable."

This happens often. In the face of last year's Democrat-led Trayvon Martin media offensive, the New York-based National Review took top honors for capitulation. Editor Rich Lowry headlined his piece, "Shocker! Sharpton is right for once," and NR contributor Robert VerBruggen insisted that "upporters of pro-self-defense policies should roundly condemn Zimmerman's actions." Newt Gingrich excepted, prominent Republicans joined the retreat.

In both cases, however, conservative guerillas in the blogosphere held the line, rallied the troops, and eventually turned the tide. Before week one of Rodeogate was through, thinking liberals like David Weigel of Slate had come to see that conservative bloggers were waging the stronger arguments.

"Banning Gessling," wrote Weigel, "looks like corporal punishment for free speech, and it gives Obama-haters proof that they can't criticize Dear Leader without the state coming down on him. It turns a dumb-but-legal political joke into a moment of martyrdom."

Exactly.

Unfortunately, thinking liberals are today less common than liberals who "doublethink," an Orwellian concept that implies the ability to embrace two contradictory thoughts at the same times. Just a few days after helping blacklist Tuffy the Clown, for instance, Yates denounced "the blacklisting of people like [Howard] Fast and [Dalton] Trumbo." For the record, Trumbo and Fast, were both unapologetic Stalinists who collaborated with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, an offense arguably worse than donning an Obama mask at a rodeo.

"If you are a Christian," doublethinker Beam posted on Facebook, "your commission is not one of judgment but one of service. Let God do his job and you, yours." Having chastised those who would pass judgment on others, he turned his righteous judgment on "the [George] Zimmerman's of this land," whom he described, a bit uncharitably, as "the weak-minded, the fearful, the ignorant, the crazy, the stupid."

In fact, George Zimmerman was a registered Democrat, an Obama supporter, and a boots-on-the-ground civil rights activist. Tuffy Gessling was a semi-literate rodeo clown. Neither deserved their fate, but both served an indispensable purpose for our progressive friends.

For red state amateurs like Beam and Yates, rising above their fearful, ignorant, crazy, and stupid neighbors allows them a brief shining moment of unalloyed self-love. Cheap as that thrill may seem, for some people it is apparently priceless.

For the pros, however, the ones who green light these kind of stories and take them national, this is all business. Amidst the ruins of the Obama presidency, the demand for distraction is a constant. When the president falls hard off his high horse, as he often does, they need someone to freeze the opposition and excite the low-information masses. How fitting it was that this time they picked a real rodeo clown.

* Didn't see anything of great import. Just a clown. CHinese Opera is full of fucking clowns...

 

[RobDownSouth]

No he wasn't. And this is a perfect example of how the Left uses it's LIVEs and tools for an electronic lynch mob to destroy anybody or anything that counters their philosophy, for they cannot defend it with reason. Further exacerbating the tactic of the mindless vigilante mob is the fear from normal people that they might be the next Sarah Palin, the next Joe, the Plumber, or the next rodeo clown...

How a Missouri Rodeo Became a Phony Scandal
Jack Cashill, Ph.D.
August 19, 2013, American Thinker

* Didn't see anything of great import. Just a clown. CHinese Opera is full of fucking clowns...

It must pain your soul deeply to have to defend a man who criticized George Zimmerman.

This can serve as an excellent lesson for your Rentagook™: sometimes you have to turn the other way and disregard the actions of others, and keep your eye on the "big picture", which of course is demonizin' libruls.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


Speaking of offensive clowns...

 

[RobDownSouth]

*chuckle*


Speaking of offensive clowns...

Yeah, I noticed Vetty was back too.

 

[phrodeau]

You would think that a deeply researched article like that would mention all the other rodeos featuring Obama clowns. Funny how nobody seems to have evidence of this widespread practice.

 

[dan_c00000]

You can always trust a man who signs his shitty blog posts with a PhD. And who invents ghostwritten theories with no proof.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You can always trust a man who signs his shitty blog posts with a PhD. And who invents ghostwritten theories with no proof.

Cashill has made a profitable career monetizing his hatred for all things Democratic, so of course the chief looks up to him as some sort of idol.

You might recall Cashill first came to prominence with tinfoil hat nuttery that TWA flight 800 was an inside terra-ist job.

The Derp Is Strong In That One.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Cashill has made a profitable career monetizing his hatred for all things Democratic, so of course the chief looks up to him as some sort of idol.

You might recall Cashill first came to prominence with tinfoil hat nuttery that TWA flight 800 was an inside terra-ist job.

The Derp Is Strong In That One.

I wonder.....If I were to scream and rant about how fucked up libuhulism is, yell "Terror!!" and "Mhurikuh!!!" a few dozen times....write a book about it and put a flag on the cover, how much money would I make?

If it bought me a giant weed ranch a little further into the cascades I would be totally fine winding up as conservative toilet reading material. I would just title my next book "J/K"....

Maximum IRL trolling.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I wonder.....If I were to scream and rant about how fucked up libuhulism is, yell "Terror!!" and "Mhurikuh!!!" a few dozen times....write a book about it and put a flag on the cover, how much money would I make?

If it bought me a giant weed ranch a little further into the cascades I would be totally fine winding up as conservative toilet reading material. I would just title my next book "J/K"....

Maximum IRL trolling.

Since you've been outed as my alt, we should both know that the "hate market" is pretty well saturated right now.

Hell, even Ann Coulter is having difficulty selling her spew nowadays in a post-Palin America.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Since you've been outed as my alt, we should both know that the "hate market" is pretty well saturated right now.

Hell, even Ann Coulter is having difficulty selling her spew nowadays in a post-Palin America.

True....and hate is soooooooooo tiring man....I'm in the business of happy anyhow, and I love it.

Stoner Edit: BTW you're MY alt......bitch.