Missouri State Fair bans rodeo clown who mocked Obama
Source: St Louis Post Dispatch
Missouri State Fair bans rodeo clown who mocked Obama
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri State Fair officials have barred a rodeo clown who wore a Barack Obama mask and mocked the president from ever performing at the fair again.
Neither the fair nor the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, which sponsored the event, revealed the name of the clown.
But family members of the performer, who goes by the stage name of Tuffy Gessling, said that the general public was missing the point.
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The fair, however, said in a release today that the Rodeo Cowboy Association "must hold all those responsible for this offensive stunt accountable." The fair also said if the association is to ever sponsor a rodeo again, it must first show proof that "all officials and subcontractors ... have successfully participated in sensitivity training."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/missouri-state-fair-bans-rodeo-clown-who-mocked-obama/article_779f0651-d910-5d3f-8954-de5f7f55e327.html
Newsjock
(11,733 posts)Where he'll be right at home.
(Also: Not a very noteworthy 10,000th post from Newsjock, huh. I should have done better.)
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)YEP HE WAS
olddots
(10,237 posts)Somebody wrote the script for this racist hate fest , the somebody that planned this out wasn't a hired hand for a weekend gig .
The real clowns here were the audience who thought it was good "family " entertainment .
leftyladyfrommo
(18,815 posts)Not just the totally inapropriate clown face but also the reaction from the crowd.
A friend said I
m over reacting. It's just Missouri!
I think the whole thing is awful. I live here and I am just floored by this.
CurtEastPoint
(18,549 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)The birth State of Rusty the Racist.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)it could have been much different without his input.
DemoTex
(25,370 posts)ass clown (ás kloun) n.:
one, who, through the fault of his parents conception, is a skid mark in society's collective underwear.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Growing up this sort of disrespect towards the President was something that was just not abided in our household. Not even when it was someone of the opposing party.
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Fox Snooze will hire him all they hire is clowns. LOL!
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)..."I see you have recent experience acting like an ass in a rodeo. Would you be interested in mornings since we have a clown in the 6PM slot?"
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Rodeo seems to bring out the raw worse side of people.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)mficken@boonville.k12.mo.us or 660-882-7474
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)will be announcing for, say, a school when his students try the same thing?
Couldn't very well discipline them for something he showed them how to celebrate in public, could he?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)f-ing assclown, both of them
marble falls
(56,358 posts)He really is a clown.
No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)This sounds like a contemptuous whitewash. They won't name the clown, and they demand sensitivity training and they don;t even mention the announcer. That sounds like total horseshit to me.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)He needs a visit from the Secret Service.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)Socal31
(2,484 posts)Don't ask.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Scanning through some of the posts on that page is amazing! Those people are absolute morons!
Kingofalldems
(38,360 posts)kwolf68
(7,365 posts)First of all, why does anyone care? It's a rodeo clown for goodness sakes. Obama wasn't threatened at all. Just some jagoffs mocking him. It's not cool, but welcome to America. Free nation. And here I read the SS needs to visit the clown? Huh? There have been plenty of times where someone mocked presidents of the other party.
That first amendment thing is quite pesky.