Well,, There are people who havent said anything.. absolute, total Crikkits!

Mite be just a little bit telling,,
Its okay S, this thread will be ready & waiting when you come back,,
& Jerry, you made statements & I rebutted them. No response,, Im seeing a pattern.

Wanna have a go at the Commerce clause?

--Steve

Thats awesome, Steve,,


Awwrite, buddy from down HOuston way called,, we talked about this..
The state did a lot wrong,,he mentioned he thot that it also impacts his Right to Commerce & Contract,, & WOW,, Isnt that the truth?
He also mentioned a coupla others Quit,, the announcer & the guy who was head of the rodeo( IF Im rememberin right).

Anyone have the story on why these guys quit?

Am I S.?. ... or Srin?...

I will say,.. I read a report from a spectator at that rodeo,... and he claims he heard the announcer mention Obama approximately 100 times...
This does sound like incitement...
The man said it began to feel like a KKK rally...
If that is true, in perception if not detail,.. it is ugly... and unseemly,.. and lacking respect...

Rodeos are a predominantly white interest... and among a southern audience it may have fed upon itself, and got out of hand...
Maybe not entirely the clowns fault... (I would tend to hold the announcer more culpable, from what I've read)... but, this not some PC overreach... it sounds very distasteful, and unhealthy...
Such things encourage the lower elements of society...

Worse yet,...is the Texas RNC's kneejerk invitation for the clown to repeat this performance for them...
That shows a pure hateful spite... and stinks of racism...
Please note...I didn't say it was racist... I said it smells of it...
Rep's should know better... (what motivates them?... hatred?... pandering to white racist's?... or just blind ignorance?)...

Sorry you asked for my opinion?... ...
Happy to give my 2 cents... as long as we all know, this is all just opinion based on the details of reporting we got...
None of us was there...
SO,... it can vary wildly based on who's account we are taking...
I think we'd all agree that there is a line that could be crossed...
Reports differ on the event...

Was this a friendly ribbing of the president,.. or an incitement of hate?...
Don't know...
The first amendment does protect free speech,... but, there are exceptions... like crying fire in a crowded theater...
Excessive taunting of an audience, to belittle a black man in a predominantly white, male, southern audience... can be tantamount to crying fire in a crowded theater...
A public announcer has a responsibility beyond that of a regular person... their actions in influence others... as does even a clown...
As even do we.... speaking in a forum, instead of one to one...
The larger the reach of our voice,... the more responsible we are for our words...

I'm sure Bush was tarred and feathered at many predominantly black events and sure, race was part of it in the sense that black groups all have an "us against them" aspect. I get that. And being from Missouri and I have a large customer in Sedalia, I can tell you for sure the n word gets tossed around freely in homes and bars around there. I'm pretty sure Romney won the same % of the vote in that area as say Obama did in every major inner city.

But...... Obama's supporters and bored liberal media types,  can't use every occurrence and blame it on race even if there is an element of racism because that makes Obama unassailable. Obama is notoriously thin-skinned as our his supporters who are used to being able to bully public opinion their way.
As for as the Texas Congressman who offered the guy a job, the way this was blown up into completely about race did exactly the same thing as the Zimmerman trial did: it took an event that wasnt necessarily race based and forced sides to be drawn.
Remember the golden rule: politics does not unite people, it divides.

You do know youre on the sensitivity training list now, right?

Yea, where were ya when it was Bush getting Creamed?

This is a load of crap. ya dont allow a state or state agency to censure a citizen, its against the Big C. & what of the mans Right to Commerce & Contract?