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August 21, 2013 10:42 AM UTC
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The guy is just thirsting for attention since he doesn't do much around the state house.
So do you agree that using rodeo clowns of Bush also merited condemnation under your logic?
Can you show me an instance where that happened Lord Flatulence?
You clowns are oh so serious with your false equivalencies. "You did it too even though I don't have any proof that it every occurred using taxpayer money so it makes what we do acceptable and even laudable."
How about just stating straight up that you loved this performance in a taxpayer paid public event? Was it or was it not something that thrilled you and it was so funny that it brought tears to your eyes and almost broke your funny bone?
Oh jeez, seriously? Sonnenberg included a photo of a Bush clown. Bush was routinely subjected to worse from the left than Obama has ever dealt with, except the birth certificate stuff which I agree was silly.
NOW you say it's silly…
But seriously, you should read Kathleen Parker's column. The gist is that if you truly reverse the situation – black clown, black audience, white mask, etc.- then you start to see racial overtones, not just political/satirical ones.
BTW, are you sure Cruz released the original long form? Has he released his college transcripts? I heard his father supported Castro.
I'm waiting fo Cruz to come out with a statement that of course the birthers never had a leg to stand on.
I think are questions that need answered? Is Cruz now or has Cruz ever been a beneficiary of Canada's Marxist healthcare cabal?
unless his mother delivered him without assistance then he benefited. Remember when Palin admitted that her family used to "sneak" into Canada for free medical care?
Mama Cruz didn't even have to sneak.
Does he put gravy on his Freedom Fries?
BS. Identify where these Bush masks were worn at taxpayer funded events and the context where they were used. It is always the same MO when Republicans get got being racists that they claim to the victims.
If you want to see real political humor go back and watch Stephen Corbert's take down at the White House Correspondence dinner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X93u3anTco&noredirect=1
That's real political humor rather than inciting a white crowd to vicariously exulate in the brutal death of a hated black man. Reminds me of the movie Django Unchained where the slave gets ripped apart by dogs. I bet you thought that was hilarious too.
Is Rep. Sonnenberg so bereft of any actual idea that might serve the state or his constituents that he brings this up two weeks after it is news? Is he so desperate for attention that he will even lap up the adulation of the wingnuts? Or is he just that stupid?
Yes!
You've got to be kidding me Extremis that Bush was subjected to worse personal attacks. He got kid gloves for his failures on 9/11 and lying to get us into Iraq. The white Republicans would be trying to lynch Obama if he was so incompetent that 3,000+ Americans died in an attack on our homeland & another 4,000+ died in an unnecessary invasion. They are incensed as it is that 4 Americans died in Libya. Bush was reviled because he drove America to the brink of ruin. Obama is reviled because he is black man. He has handled these insane accusations and blatant bigotry against him with a grace and dignity that would make Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King proud.
So in a post about inappropriate tone you call me "Lord Flatulence" yet cannot even see the unintentional irony. 😉
Unintentional irony – isn't that redundant?
Ironic . . .
Heck I thought it was funny you being a big gas bag and all.
What's even funnier is you failing to to answer any of my questions. You too busy having a tight sphincter about how outraged your are about my inappropriate humor. Figures.
Elliot doesn't answer questions or address points. What he does is change the subject, enter the Johnny does it too defense or he pretends you said something you never said and either refutes that fabrication rather than your actual words or demands that you produce proof to support the fabrication he attributes to you. Call him on it and he claims that you are the one who is failing to make a relevant response. That's the Fladen method. And yes, it all amounts to nothing but gas. Not really worth the bother.
A pompous putrid gasbag at that. The Lord Voldemort of odious comments without substance. The dipshit claims that Bush masks are offensive but Obama masks aren't. Talk about a double standard asshole.
Well if you use the ol' google it's a Herbert Walker Bush mask in 1994, when, if memory serves, he wasn't President anymore, not a GW mask. And that's the very best they could do. The google didn't give me any GW Presidency clown material. GW provided plenty himself, but that's another story. As others have pointed out, see Kathleen Parker piece. She's no lefty, either. And you, of course, are no moderate.
The editorial in today's Denver Post by Kathleen Parker does a good job of explaining how the context of our nation's history in the area of race relations makes this a don't and not a do.
http://tablet.olivesoftware.com/Olive/Tablet/DenverPost/Default.aspx
I understand what Eliot is getting at, but its a false equivalence. The differences are whether there is violence offered to the person wearing the mask, and whether it is taxpayer supported, or an expression of free speech.
I was at anti-war rallies with giant Bush or Cheney puppets that acted out large Kabuki dramas. They were there to make a political point. We didn't beat up the actors carrying the puppets, or put them into danger. People wore Bush halloween masks. Why? To mock him. George W Bush was corrupt, and not smart. But wearing a Bush halloween mask was not an invitation for physical violence. It was in the context of political free speech, and it was not taxpayer supported.
So with the rodeo clown, it was taxpayer supported. It was not in the context of political free speech, even though they probably had some message in mind, criticizing Obama for something they disagreed with. I would defend that kind of political speech even if I disagreed with it. If a tea party group put on political theatre, with someone wearing an Obama mask, I'd defend their right to have that theater, as long as they didn't symbolically lynch or beat up the "Obama" character.
The 3rd problem is the threat of violence to the symbolic "Obama", and how entertaining that supposedly was. That is reminiscent of the 400+ death threats this president gets every week, and the relentless race-based attacks: foreignness, Muslim, race bias, Chicago thug, hoodie wearing pothead, etc.
It's disingenuous to ignore any of those factors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_(2006_film)
And this is the same situation as something involving the sitting President at a public funded state fair under the auspices of public officials how now?
If you want to swap nasty stuff spewed by private citizen rightie and lefties, while lots of stuff will be found on both sides, lefties have never held a candle to righties in terms of volume. We must bow to the champions.
Wasn't that film which you wingnuts trot out at every near appropriate occasion a British production? If you could only prove it had the financing or other imprimatur of the Democratic party-or that the fictional call for assassination was based on the fact that W was white you might have something.As it is all you're doing is trying to draw some nebulous connectionbetween a work of speculative fiction from another country and an act which condones violence upon a sitting American president because he's unheartlandishly-hued. Fladen you are truly a chapeau for the derriere.
I get so sick and tired about Republicans, who are supposedly all about personal responsibility and such, immediately resorting to the "he did it too" defense. I don't let my little kids get away with that, and neither should we.
Moms never had much tolerance for that one in my day. As I recall the standard mom retort to the "Johnny did it too" defense back in the dark ages was "If everybody jumped off a bridge would you do it too?"
Don't hold your breath waiting for the righties here to say whether any given thing is right or wrong on its own merits. Full stop. No "buts". Not gonna happen.