‘A REAL LOAD OF BULL’

During the bull-ridin' event at the Missouri State Fair’s rodeo this past Saturday, one of the rodeo clowns was wearing a President Obama mask when the announcer asked the enthusiastic spectators if anyone would like to see “Obama run down by a bull”. And, of course, the audience responded enthusiastically.

Well, wouldn’t you know it? Out of more than 8,000 spectators there, one took offense and felt the need to post a photo of the clown in the Obama mask on his Facebook page. Not long after, it found it’s way onto the Progressive blog site showmeprogress.com, and the political-correctness crowd was immediately fired-up. The offended spectator stated online that he felt “a sense of fear” from the “level of enthusiasm" from the crowd that filled the fair's grandstand. Likening it all to “some kind of Klan rally you'd see on TV", he described it as “cruel” and “disturbing”, stating that he’s “still sick to his stomach over it”. He even went as far as to call it “blatantly racist”.

             And ever since photos and video of the performance were posted online, it seems like anybody that’s got a soap box to stand on feels the sudden need to act all offended and tore up over the comical acts of a couple of rodeo clowns tryin’ to put on a good show.
            Numerous Missouri officials have since denounced the performance, citing the “obvious disrespect and ridicule directed at the president” and what they perceived as the suggestion of violence toward Obama; in the form of an encounter with a bull.

After some Democrat lawmakers suggested there should be financial consequences for the fair, the State Fair officials jumped on the band wagon, as well; lettin’ it be known that they were checkin’ into takin’ action against the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor responsible for Saturday's event, and then the Fair officials went and slapped a lifetime ban on a rodeo clown involved.

In 1994, a bull attacked a dummy wearing a

  George H.W. Bush mask without the world coming to an end,

 anybody being fired, or any press outrage.

Heck, even the rodeo announcer bailed on his compadre - the rodeo clown, announcin’ that he was quittin’ the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in protest since the clown has yet to be banned from its membership. Yeah, right. I’m sure it ain’t got nothin’ to do with his tryin’ to hang on to his full-time job as superintendent of the Booneville School District, which announced Monday that they themselves are hirin’ an investigator to look into whether HE – the announcer, was involved in any "inappropriate conduct" during Saturday's bull riding event.

So far, and not surprisingly so, the only ones to publicly take up for the much-maligned clown have been his peers from the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association memberhip, several of which were at Saturday's event. They stated that there was nothin’ offensive or unusual about their friend’s actions, pointin’ out that rodeo clowns have long performed such acts, often imitatin’ sittin’ presidents. According to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, it's not unheard of for a rodeo clown, depending on how he reads his audience, to play politics.

Any president comes in for a fair amount of public mockery, and what happened at the Missouri State Fair doesn’t seem any worse than that other presidents have had to endure. That’s just part of the job… it’s pretty much a given, so thin-skinned people need not apply.

          Now… with all of that said… I want to make one simple, yet astute observation. Regardless of what all that political-correctness crowd might think – no matter if they’re the Governor, a State Fair official, or some big time news network reporter – they ALL have totally missed the REAL story here.

In the offended spectator’s own words, “everbody screamed” and “just went wild” as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask.

Huh! “Everbody screamed” and “just went wild”… think about that… that was HIS description of the crowd’s reaction. Speaks volumes of how that crowd must really feel about the president. Kinda hard to blame THAT on a couple of cowboy clowns pokin’ fun while dodgin’ Brahma bulls.