http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/08/13/a...-mr-obama/

Quote:Dear President Obama,

I’m reaching out to you as a friend. I know you must be deeply hurting after what happened at the Missouri State Fair. Sure, you probably try to avoid watching the news while you’re on vacation, but I’m sure the pilot who airlifted your dog to your rental mansion in Martha’s Vineyard probably caught you up to speed (that guy is such a chatterbox). Your jaw must have hit the floor when you heard the news: A rodeo clown in Missouri poked fun at you. Yeah, I know, almost impossible to believe. The gall! The gumption! The racism! Don’t worry, the entire country erupted in outrage, Democrats and Republicans issued statements of condemnation, and now the offending clown has been banned for life from the Missouri State Fair. There will likely be “action taken” against the Missouri Rodeo Clown Association, and I do hope justice is visited upon them swiftly. I think we’re all a little sick of the Missouri Rodeo Clown Association causing trouble. It’s something new every week with those freakin’ guys.

But all of this is of no consolation. The fact is, a rodeo clown in Missouri made fun of you. Nothing can ever ease the pain he has caused. This sort of crass lampooning of public officials has never happened at a rodeo until now, and I know that because a bunch of people who have never been within 150 miles of a rodeo said so. And then — worse still — the crowd erupted in applause at the spectacle of a guy in an Obama mask being chased by a rampaging bull. Racists, the lot of ‘em! I mean, Bush never got this sort of treatment. Nobody ever mocked or satirized him. No crude jokes were told about him. Nobody ever wished violence or death upon him. Ever. You know why? Because he’s white. White presidents always get treated nicely, especially white Republicans. Just ask Lincoln. The whole country agreed for over two centuries that we don’t ever insult presidents, then you get into office and all of a sudden every day is Pick on the President Day. Outrageous!

Besides, you are due some respect. You’ve earned it. You’ve done nothing but serve these people and make their lives better, and this is how they treat you? Ungrateful brats. You should drone bomb these haters. Just kidding. But seriously, you should. You’re the first president in history to actually order the assassination of American citizens, and I say why stop with some Muslim propagandist and his completely innocent son who never committed any crime at all?

I’m especially sick of these punks in the middle class who won’t stop complaining about you. What’s their issue? OK, you haven’t done anything about the unemployment rate your whole time in office, median household incomes have dropped, less businesses are opening, the number of people in poverty has increased while the number of high paying jobs has decreased, all of this while taxes go up and Obamacare looms, threatening to strangle small business owners and put thousands more out of work, but so what? I’ve got two words: Food stamps. Or is it foodstamps? I don’t know, I can’t spell it, I can just use it to get my Lucky Charms and Dr. Pepper. You’ve made all of this “work” crap obsolete by increasing the entitlement state more than any president ever in history! You’re adding more than 11 thousand Americans a day to SNAP. You’ve got millions relying on the government for rent, cable, phone, even birth control. I guess this horrible economy stuff would be kind of a bummer if not for all the delicious welfare. Who needs an economy anymore? We’ve got you, baby.

So how could anyone be upset at you? How could they delight at the degradation and mockery of Barack Obama? What’s wrong with these right wing rednecks? Are they still sore about the whole thing where you sent the IRS after your political opponents to harass and hinder them during an election cycle? Or the stuff about spying on the phone records of every American? What about all this business about you arming and funding Islamic Militants overseas and then orchestrating a coverup when a bunch of them murdered your ambassador? Are folks STILL mad that you funneled weapons to drug cartels and then threatened whistleblowers into silence? Or is it all this fuss over your Justice Department spying on and attempting to prosecute journalists? Is it the wildly unpopular two thousand page health care law? The regulation mandating that religious employers provide abortifacients to their employees? The millions of tax dollars you’ve given to the abortion industry and the blessings you wished upon a group of wealthy abortionists? The bailouts? The green energy scams? The massive expansion of government? The out of control deficit spending? The lies? The broken promises? The betrayals? The corruption? The attacks on our fundamental liberties?

I can’t imagine why anyone would get too worked about any of that. Like you said, that stuff didn’t happen. Or it did, but it’s not a big deal. Or it’s not a big deal because it didn’t. I can’t remember, I just know that you treat anyone who raises any of these concerns with utter contempt and disregard, which clearly proves that they are wrong.

Mr. Obama, IF you WERE actually guilty of being a deceitful despot who murders, conspires, and steals, then obviously all true Americans would have no choice but to giggle with glee at the sight of your likeness being gouged by an angry bull. Fortunately, that isn’t the case, which is why I’d like to apologize on for the entire state of Missouri, for everyone who has ever attended a state fair, and for everyone in the rodeo clown community.

You are still special, and I still love you.

Yours eternally,

Matt Walsh

So incredibly well done.

That's pretty funny. Was there an actual incident at a Missouri rodeo?

(08-14-2013 11:36 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  That's pretty funny. Was there an actual incident at a Missouri rodeo?

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pete...e-of-humor

Nicely done....

It is funny to me that it is racist now, but it wasn't when everyone was making fun of Bush. They both deserved it.

Obama makes Australians glad to be Australians.

Spectators should ban this rodeo until this man gets his job back. Absolutely ridiculous. Very Stalinist indeed.

Matt Walsh is a clown.

(08-14-2013 12:11 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Matt Walsh is a clown.

UMAD?

(08-14-2013 12:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  Spectators should ban this rodeo until this man gets his job back. Absolutely ridiculous. Very Stalinist indeed.

It's kind of hard to ban the entire purpose of the Missouri State Fair. (well, okay the 2nd, the first is for the cattle shows).

This was the first year since I moved to Missouri, where I couldn't actually make it to the Fair/Rodeo to watch it for at least one day

That's the problem we should be having with is the state fair (paid for by state tax dollars) demanding _all_ members of the MRCA now go to "sensitivity training".

(08-14-2013 12:33 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 12:11 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Matt Walsh is a clown.

UMAD?

University of Maryland Asian Division? Umatilla Army Depot?

Never heard of someone being fired and banned for wearing a presidential mast before.

The MRCA (yes, there's an "association" for Rodeo clowns).. have apparently changed their "ban plans" for Mr. Gessling by the way

This morning, their website stated that "Mr. Gessling will no longer perform at any MRCA events"

At some point this afternoon, it was changed to:

"Tuffy Gessling will no longer perform at the MRCA finals in Sedalia MO"

The Missouri State Fair (from what I'm reading so far today), still has Mr. Gessling still permanently banned from performing however.

Unfortunately, even our LT. Gov (a Republican) is riding the 'anti-Gessling" bandwagon, calling it "Disrespectful"... Which I think is really what has me riled up..
We've ALWAYS (as American citizens) been willing to allow friendly mockery of our political leadership... and now they're "sacred cows'? (pun intended)

(08-14-2013 01:56 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  The MRCA (yes, there's an "association" for Rodeo clowns).. have apparently changed their "ban plans" for Mr. Gessling by the way

This morning, their website stated that "Mr. Gessling will no longer perform at any MRCA events"

At some point this afternoon, it was changed to:

"Tuffy Gessling will no longer perform at the MRCA finals in Sedalia MO"

The Missouri State Fair (from what I'm reading so far today), still has Mr. Gessling still permanently banned from performing however.

Unfortunately, even our LT. Gov (a Republican) is riding the 'anti-Gessling" bandwagon, calling it "Disrespectful"... Which I think is really what has me riled up..
We've ALWAYS (as American citizens) been willing to allow friendly mockery of our political leadership... and now they're "sacred cows'? (pun intended)

That tends to happen in predominantly conservative areas. It happens a lot here. You see a lot of the dumb, guilty white liberals that feel the need to prove to everyone they are not racist. Or think everyone around them is racist and feel like they must let everyone know how "tolerant" they are.

This usually leads to the dumb, guilty white liberal to say and do some pretty dumb things.

Lt. Gov. Kinder is not a "guilty white liberal", okla.. That's why I think I'm a bit more frustrated. Jay Nixon (our gov.) on the other hand, I would have expected him to jump on the bandwagon in a heartbeat.

Whew. I'm just glad we've got all this other **** fixed around here so we can be concerned about some clown (literally) in a rodeo.

We are effing doomed. We've lost our collective freaking minds.

(08-14-2013 02:27 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Whew. I'm just glad we've got all this other **** fixed around here so we can be concerned about some clown (literally) in a rodeo.

We are effing doomed. We've lost our collective freaking minds.

Just to clarify - the OP was not specifically about a clown (ok, actually it was, just not a rodeo clown)

(08-14-2013 03:26 PM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 02:27 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Whew. I'm just glad we've got all this other **** fixed around here so we can be concerned about some clown (literally) in a rodeo.

We are effing doomed. We've lost our collective freaking minds.

Just to clarify - the OP was not specifically about a clown (ok, actually it was, just not a rodeo clown)

Oh I get it, but it was a clown that inspired all this.

Now I guess we can all have a "national conversation" about clowns and what masks we can all wear and still be sensitive.

(08-14-2013 02:27 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Whew. I'm just glad we've got all this other **** fixed around here so we can be concerned about some clown (literally) in a rodeo.

We are effing doomed. We've lost our collective freaking minds.

Bravo! Every time I think some stupid sh!t can't be topped - it gets topped.

Yep. We've solved all those societal ills that have been plaguing us - you know like jobs, govt. spending, unnecessary war actions, etc, etc. - so now we can expend all this energy on RODEO CLOWNS!!!!!!!!!!

What a country.

guys, it has nothing to do with what the rodeo clown... its' the fact that he's being censured/forbidden to participate in various events, because he was making fun of the president, and various reporters, legislators, and governors (and sadly this is My governor, my lt. governor, my state reps, etc.) who HAVE NO PROBLEM with that..

That's where the problem lies.

You're not allowed to make fun of someone of higher political office now without the fear of losing a source of income? Again, WHAT COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN?

I would love to see the white house staff sent to sensitivity training for impersonating MRCA performers in an inappropriate venue.