Rodeo clown draws criticism for Obama mask


My Comment:  I actually laughed outloud when I read this.  Even though the Governor is voicing disapproval, come on, they did worse than this to George Bush!  Anything for the Left and the Lame Stream Media to make it racial!   I say great show boys!

Missouri Fair Obama Mask

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A clown wearing a President 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 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 was among the spectators Saturday in Sedalia. He 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. After about 15 minutes into the performance, the masked clown had to leave after a bull got too close, Beam said.

Beam was at the rodeo with his wife and a student they were hosting from Taiwan. He said they were having a good time until the end of the rodeo.

“It was the usual until the very end at bull riding,” he said. “As they were bringing the bulls into the chute and prepping them … they bring out what looks like a dummy. The announcer says ‘Here’s our Obama dummy, or our dummy of Obama.

“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam said. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”

Officials with the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the organization that coordinated the rodeo, did not return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.

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7 replies

  1. I don’t think any President should be disrespected like that and if you do then you should maybe think about calling yourself an American. It’s disgusting and the Commander and Chief should not be ridiculed like that. It is sad that some people on here who have commented are comparing it to the Middle East, like we have no freedom here, and that is very pathetic. It’s disrespectful to the President, to the United States and to all Americans. I looked up “Rodeo Clown wears George W. Bush mask” and come back with nothing… Isn’t that WEIRD! I guess Google Search is Liberal as well… Idiots!

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    • We are not idiots. And yes, everyday there is news about someone being imprisoned in the middle east for insulting a leader or the King of Saudi Arabia. We have freedom of speech here in this country that’s what our ancestors died to protect. And yes they did make fun of Bush, Clinton, Nixon, and others just as bad, it might not have been all rodeo clowns but they ripped them apart. And now the sattire requires an apology? And they compare the show to the KKK?! Give me a break. They didn’t say that when the others were the object of ridicule. And this commander in chief has brought this on himself. The Office of the President of the US should be respected, on that I agree, but this president has done so much to disrespect that, and for the first time in my life , I’m ashamed to say I’m an American. Unless you live here and vote in our voting system, you have no right to attack anyone here. Troll on down the road. Our freedoms are being stripped by this man one by one. He is decimating our military, our religion, he is changing the laws to fit his own rules, such as marriage between a man and woman, so again, until you know what you are talking about, you have no right to criticize anyone.

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  2. When all reason fails, just say it’s racist and demand an apology even if it wasn’t! Makes me sick.

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  3. Is the end of broom handle in a place where the sun never shines?
    AWL

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    • Well, what disturbed me about this story is the fact that they are trying to make it racial, and demanding an apology and accountibility, which means they want someone’s head on a platter. But like I said they did worse than this to George Bush, and even Bill Clinton’s ‘I didn’t inhale.’ And other things. They are trying to make everything about race. It’s pretty bad when you can’t laugh and use sattire, I guess Saturday night live will have to close it’s program too. You know it reminds me of the middle east, where your put in prison for making fun of the King.

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