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Obama-mask clown gets lifetime Missouri fair ban. Just, or too harsh?
CSM.com ^ | 8/13/2013 | Peter Grier

Posted on 08/13/2013 5:08:06 PM PDT by mykroar

Missouri State Fair officials have banned for life the rodeo clown who wore a President Obama mask while facing bulls at the event over the weekend.

The clown in question engaged in an “unconscionable stunt” and will never perform at the Show Me state venue again, the Missouri State Fair Commission said Monday, in a statement. Fair officials are also reviewing their contract with the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor responsible for hiring and overseeing bull ring clowns.

The performance was “inappropriate and not in keeping with the Fair’s standards," said the statement.

The fair did not reveal the clown’s identity.

During a bull riding contest on Sunday, the clown appeared wearing a rubber mask of the president with an upside down broomstick trailing from his backside, as if it were a tail. The audience was asked, over a public address system, if it wanted to see Mr. Obama “run down by a bull.” Many people present clapped and cheered, according to one witness, Perry Beam.

“It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally,” said Mr. Beam.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: clown; obama; rodeo; scarecrow; snookered
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To: mykroar

Come on, people! Where are the entrepreneurs? What an opportunity for some enterprising promoter to put together the “OBAMA CLOWN POSSE RODEO” show, where ALL the clowns look like Obama! Put this show together and you would back the house anywhere in the middle part of the country you would take it, and much of the south and west as well.

Step right up!


41 posted on 08/13/2013 5:31:00 PM PDT by bigbob (W)
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To: mykroar

Ok freeper lawyers, if this is the “State” fair, I assume the commission is paid by the government, how is this ban not a first amendment violation? I could see if they had tons of complaints he wasn’t good at his job, but it sounds like the crowd approved.


42 posted on 08/13/2013 5:31:24 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: mykroar
Wait a minute here, The Dear Leader was mocked! When The Dear Leader is mocked it is an outrage!!


43 posted on 08/13/2013 5:31:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: 9422WMR

I hope half the crowd brings Obama masks


44 posted on 08/13/2013 5:31:47 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: mykroar
Where are we?

We are country under seige...divided down the middle.

And when the traitorous leader of that component which is trying to overthrow the country has taken charge of the White House, it is to be expected that he and his minions would try to silence the loyal half from voicing any complaints about himself and/or his traitorous movement.

And as an aside to the NSA--who is certainly listening in--Eff You @ssholes!

45 posted on 08/13/2013 5:34:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Liberals' first line of defense is emotion...the fall back position is specious reasoning.)
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To: mykroar

Somebody get Perry a crown because he’s a drama queen.


46 posted on 08/13/2013 5:36:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I can’t get anyone here to understand that the unnamed cowboy was a straw dummy.

Let the libs think they got justice.
The rodeo just dooped them.


47 posted on 08/13/2013 5:37:08 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mykroar

Gutless.


48 posted on 08/13/2013 5:37:10 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: Yogafist

It would be fitting to call for a National Obama Clown Face day in honor of all the clowns in Washington that are running this nation off the economic and moral cliff. If an Obama clown mask bothers Libs this much it needs to be exploited to the full. Anyone else remember a TV show called “That’s my Bush!” in 2001 that mocked President Bush? Libs will always accused the right of doing what it does far more effectively.


49 posted on 08/13/2013 5:37:35 PM PDT by Keflavik76 (But in my lonely room I cry the tears of a clown)
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To: mykroar

Missouri State UNFAIR Commission!

That explains it all.

Still too many leftists in the Show Me State. Time for a real election purge of these idiots.

The Missouri Rodeo Cowboys Association should refuse to perform anywhere in Missouri unless the banned “clown” is reinstated with full performance rights.

You don’t want to face angry rodeo fans, do you, you leftist cowards? And you thought the bulls were mean.


50 posted on 08/13/2013 5:37:46 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mykroar

I’m sure the ACLU will step up to protect his right of free speech.


51 posted on 08/13/2013 5:38:06 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: HiTech RedNeck
MO State Fair Commission

Marketing and Publicity Office: 660-530-5609
General Fax: 660-827-8160
Email: Missouri State Fair Commission

52 posted on 08/13/2013 5:38:06 PM PDT by Larry381 ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
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To: mykroar

Anyone remember this? J F’n K “Snipers wanted” http://www.wnd.com/2000/08/2083/


53 posted on 08/13/2013 5:38:35 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: mykroar

Cowards.


54 posted on 08/13/2013 5:40:08 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: duffee

“Republicans joined in not wanting to be called racists.”
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I have no clue as to what is racist about it. It could have been a mask of ANY POTUS.


55 posted on 08/13/2013 5:40:13 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Larry381

Leave them alone.
They just snookered the libs.

Sigh... what’s the use?


56 posted on 08/13/2013 5:40:54 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mykroar

Simple solution to all this. Don’t visit MO, don’t go to their fair, try not to do business with anyone in the state. We want the guy who runs the fair who insisted on the termination of the clown FIRED.


57 posted on 08/13/2013 5:41:52 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: mykroar

58 posted on 08/13/2013 5:42:30 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mykroar
The latest updates on Drudge are LOL; and could be out of Saturday Night - or,should be.

The sick truth that drives such an uproar; is however; the typical Liberal contempt for truth - and as well; Lib racism. These people are truly fools; albeit; we cannot doubt their 'promise' nor the threat they pose; because we know; all too well; their curse.

drudgereport.com

59 posted on 08/13/2013 5:42:38 PM PDT by cricket
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To: mykroar

Let’s go to where Obama chooses to vacation, Martha’s Vineyard, and ask all the Americans who are black that live there what they think of this.


60 posted on 08/13/2013 5:42:38 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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