I'm sorry. How black was Bush?
The words and actions of the clown were racist in nature. We're they towards George Sr twenty years ago?
Btw..I voted for and supported Sr. If I had known of this incident twenty years ago, and the context of it, I may have expressed outrage then too.
I'm sorry. How black was Bush?
I kind of have mixed emotions about this one. The clown was just a performer. The audience was the ones that got all KKK about it.
I think a ban was too harsh....however, as a part time performer myself....they were within their rights to do so.
Imagine for a second....I go into a bar or a club...set up my equipment play a song or two and then rail on about politics for 10 minutes till I play my next song.
A. I'm going to piss someone off.
B. The owner of the establishment isn't paying me for my political opinions.
The result is that I will probably never perform there again and they could very well pull the plug on me right then and there.
And no....I don't care if it was an Obama mask or a dubya mask. People are there to see other folk with more balls than brains get thrown off of animals at great risk to their physical well being....of course, there's trick riding and roping....but most want to see the Marlboro Man get his ass kicked.
I think that since this was a tax payer financed event, they had no right to do this. If it was private, then it's free speech. I'm sure there are many Democrats in Columbia mad that part of their money went towards a show that depicted Obama being trampled to death. It served no purpose.
Or maybe the rodeo part of it was privately financed. I'm not bored enough to look into it.
I think that since this was a tax payer financed event, they had no right to do this. If it was private, then it's free speech. I'm sure there are many Democrats in Columbia mad that part of their money went towards a show that depicted Obama being trampled to death. It served no purpose.
Or maybe the rodeo part of it was privately financed. I'm not bored enough to look into it.
Lol, nothing from the 70's or 80's
Actually, this is a running gag with Rodeo clowns.
Basically what it is:
There is a scarecrow hanging by a stick in the arena, it is usually dressed as a President, sometimes as a popular local political figure, but usually the President (it's way easier to get Presidential masks than local politicians, waaay easier). Sometime during the show, if a bull hasn't trashed the dummy earlier, the clown uses a distraction and puts the scarecrow in a barrel and puts on a mask and adds the broomstick replacing the scarecrow with himself... As the bull comes out of the chute and at any moment it starts moving towards the "dummy" it suddenly springs to life running in fear. In the one with George H.W. Bush the bull attacked the scarecrow before the gag took full effect, but it was the same gag.
I've seen it at many rodeos. It's a standard schtick.
Unfortunately Texas has informed him he's welcome there.
I don't believe it was a running gag.
Interesting... What kind of outrage did you have for this?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/in-1994-there-was-a-george-bush-rodeo-clown-dummy/article/2534201
Without seeing the Bush Sr. video tape it's obviously hard to compare. The principle to me is if it's something that has been done to previous Presidents to now say we can't do it because Obama is black is to treat him different because of race which is wrong.
Bullshit! The rodeo clown made it a POINT to mock Obama's racial physicality. And the Bush incident involved a dummy that WAS NOT sexually assaulted by a broomstick. Deal with it.With respect, I'll try my best.
I did a search for "satire violent mocking president bush " and found a link to malkin's article.
http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/1...t-were-far-worse-than-a-harmless-rodeo-clown/
Nobody freaked out back then. Why are they freaking out because someone mocked Obama?
I doubt you've asked yourself even.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...pitated-george-bush-head-on-a-pike-was-funny/
LOL
HBO has a few examples