Posted on 08/15/2013 11:30:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Calls by the Missouri chapter of the NAACP for a federal investigation into a rodeo clown who donned a President Obama mask at the state fair last week are misguided and hypocritical, a Texas Republican congressman told FoxNews.com on Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, who has invited the clown who wore the mask to perform in Texas, said the request for probes into the incident by the Justice Department and Secret Service are “silly” and should be ignored.
“A rodeo clown is really a nominal thing and it hurt no one,” Stockman told FoxNews.com. “They didn’t speak out when George Bush was being portrayed as a murderer. To become relevant again, they need to become more of an honest broker and not have contrived anger.”
Stockman said the NAACP would better serve its constituents by focusing on ways to decrease unemployment among the black community. He also noted that the national civil rights group was silent after a July incident on a Florida bus where three black teens beat a fellow white student. Though Gulfport Police Chief Robert Vincent told Fox News the attack did not appear to be racially motivated, former Florida Rep. Allen West, who is black, chided Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, noting they condemned Florida's laws in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting yet remained mum on the bus attack.
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The NAACP has revealed its true nature as domestic racist terrorist organization.
This clown story is taking oxygen away from the overt incompetence of this administration regarding Egypt.
This clown story is taking oxygen away from the overt incompetence of this administration regarding Egypt.
Egypt and a great many other failures. President You Didn't Build That and the Democratic [sic] party are far, far beyond desperate.
Good for Stockman. The unholy alliance of race hustlers and the Administration is trying to ruin another ordinary guy.
This whole story is bogus. Instead of the clown being “banned for life”, why not just tell him to lose the Obama mask, if anybody was actually upset by it (which I seriously doubt)?
This gigantic over-reaction should be turned back on all the morons expressing this fake outrage, and the people who punished the clown should be fired.
WHERE WOULD the naalcp BE without “contrived anger”?
its their whole ballgame!
“why not just tell him to lose the Obama mask,”
COMMON SENSE was laid to rest YEARS ago.
we must now refer to same as the form of thought previously referred to as “common sense”
OLD SCHOOL ALL THE WAY!!
No one can complain.
An Obama Clown is both sad and funny, so you get double your money’s worth.
Stupid. Simply stupid. And that's the nicest word I can come up with.
...calls for a DOJ investigation."
The whole thing is positively niggardly.
I remember than G.W. Bush was often depicted as a chimp with masks and on signs.
Stockman said the NAACP would better serve its constituents by focusing on ways to decrease unemployment among the black community.
Not to mention teen pregnancy and illegitimacy.
>> This clown story is taking oxygen away from x.
The partisan divide is too well established for it to matter.
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