Posted on 01/15/2015 8:14:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask was denounced by everyone from the lieutenant governor on down who demanded that the people responsible be held accountable.
The rodeo clown got actual death threats. He was banned for life. The man who hired him was forced to resign. The Kansas City Star suggested that the Secret Service should investigate the event.
The NAACP demanded a federal probe.
When a parade float featuring an outhouse as the Obama presidential library happened, Democrats claimed that it crossed the line and was unacceptable.
None of these were assassination threats, even though the left had openly trafficked in Bush assassination fantasies before Obama. But even crude jokes like these were considered off limits.
The double standard still exists because assassination jokes about Republicans in the form of the Boston Globe’s Boston.com column by one of its assistant editors are just fine.
The story, written by Boston.com associate editor Victor Paul Alvarez and posted on the website’s “Top News” section last evening, was headlined “Would Anyone Have Noticed if Bartender Succeeded in Poisoning John Boehner?”
“The question is: Would anyone have noticed? Stories about Boehner’s drinking have circulated for years. His drinking inspired a blog called DrunkBoehner, and in 2010 he brought booze back to Washington,” the story read. “Had he been poisoned as planned, perhaps his pickled liver could have filtered out the toxins.”
“It’s hate speech,” wrote one commenter. “If a commenter said this about Obama, the FBI would be at their door.”
There was also backlash on Twitter.
“Imagine a plot involving the assassination of Obama getting this sort of treatment from the media,” wrote one tweeter.
Not only would this be considered ‘un-sayable’ about Obama, but even far milder jokes result in threats of Federal probes. People get fired over them.
Whatever you may think of Boehner, the problem here is a double standard. Obama jokes have to be as mild as possible. But you can casually joke about killing Bush or Boehner or Cruz because that’s just good comedy.
That’s not free speech. That’s the ISIS version of free speech in which they’re allowed to post severed heads on Twitter, but no one is allowed to mock Mohammed.
It’s time for the media outlets pretending to defend free speech in France to admit that they don’t believe in at home.
The broom was to hold up the dummy.
Being a perpetual drunk doesn’t help Boehner much. It’s a
ribbing that the lush deserves and I have no problem with
that. The problem with making fun of the Obama is if you
do it , you and the people who hire you and the people
who hire them may loose their job. That’s fascism.
So the real point is “What else could you expect for making
fun of a limp wristed wimp fascist like the Obama?”
The fact is, as a human being, the Obama is a worthless
stain representing every recessive genetic throwback that
was thought bread out of the human genome. He has absolutely
nothing to contribute to the human gene pool and should
have been castrated at birth to keep him from reproducing.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Voltaire
It’s really hard to joke about Obama. His supporters don’t think they’re funny and his detractors don’t think they’re jokes.
Your post: It’s really hard to joke about Obama. His supporters don’t think they’re funny and his detractors don’t think they’re jokes.
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That is brilliant! And true.
Obama is tending bar in a local pub when a horse walks in.
Obama says, “Never mind the long face, John, but your @ss is really getting big!”
You, I have seen examples repeated of the joke that he his, what right thinking people see him as all the time. All you need do is google “Obama hanging curtain rods, riding a bicycle, watching a judo/karate match.....any number situations. The fact that his supporters see it as blasphemy of their evil master isn’t a mystery. They are damaged and evil people to begin with.
I’d add though, however, I do not mistake joking about him as a substitute for recognizing the absolute evil that he is. My position is that any mechanism that is available to ridicule and minimize his effect on us is a good thing.
Gee, I must have missed that memo.
Q: What do you get when you cross a slutty, amoral white-trash pig with a habitually drunk, unemployable black polygamist?
A: Barrack Obama.
See what I mean? I never got the memo.
I had an idea for an SNL skit in which the camera would start out showing Obama speaking into teleprompters. The camera would slowly pull back, revealing that Obama was sitting at the breakfast table talking to his wife and daughters.
I don’t understand all the confusion, the answer is as clear as black and white.....................er, orange.
o-bama Jokes Forbidden, but Boston Globe Can Joke About Killing John Boehner
A rodeo clown wearing an o-bama mask was denounced by everyone from the lieutenant governor on down who demanded that the people responsible be held accountable.
The rodeo clown got actual death threats.
He was banned for life.
The man who hired him was forced to resign.
The Kansas City Star suggested that the Secret Service should investigate the event.
The NAACP demanded a federal probe.
What’s so odd about that? I bet that FR admins are more careful about BO jokes that could have a downside than those about Boehner. Boehner jokes are all among friends, right?
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