bronco bama, part two

Over the weekend some rodeo clown at the Missouri state fair put on an Obama mask and stuck a broomstick up his ass while someone got on the public address system and asked if the crowd wanted to see Obama trampled by a bull.

Ha, ha.

It goes without saying that there are a lot of people in Missouri who hate the federal government.  It also goes without saying that there are a lot of people in the show-me state who are still upset about that emancipation proclamation thing, and are not fond of black people.  It doesn’t need to be mentioned that there are Missourians who don’t buy into this gay rights thing (the symbolism of the broomstick up the ass, in case you didn’t catch the humor).

The State and the State Fair have apologized all over themselves, as they should have, and they are telling us that someone hijacked the microphone and blurted out their own racist anti-American venom.  If so, it was just a breach of security, but I am hearing too many people saying that it was all done in good clean fun and no harm was done.  Unfortunately, I am detecting a lack of sensitivity here. 

They interviewed some hillbilly today that suggested that, and this is just a paraphrase that, “Last time I looked we still had freedom of speech.”

He is correct.  As a matter of fact we do still have freedom of speech.  Freedom of speech is when someone in the crowd wears an Obama mask, stuffs a broomstick up his ass and carries a sign that says “I hate queers, blacks and America.”

Or if someone carries a sign with a swastika with the words, “Seig heil.”  That would be some dumb-ass stuff, but freedom of speech allows a Nazi to do it.

It would also be freedom of speech if someone carried a sign that said “Down with heterosexual white people.”

When someone shows up to protest, they are protected by their first amendment rights, but hijacking the microphone and the event goes beyond freedom of speech.

Would it have been in good clean fun and would it have been freedom of speech if someone would have dressed a rodeo clown like Jesus Christ and shouted over the public address system:

“Allah Akbar!  Who wants to see Christ the infidel trampled by a bull?”

Well, maybe some would think that was just clean fun.