The hypocrisy couldn't be more striking, part II

[PaceAdvantage]

If you're a rodeo clown and you wear an Obama mask, you get fired and covered intently by CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/opinion/quest-rodeo-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/politics/missouri-rodeo-clowns-sensitivity-training-obama-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/missouri-obama-rodeo/

If you're a theater group and you depict the assassination of Trump every night, you get praised by people at CNN and the NYT stands by you every step of the way:

https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/869951908689137664
https://news.fastcompany.com/the-new-york-times-vows-to-stand-by-theater-despite-trump-julius-caesar-controversy-4040493

[chrisl]

Sick! But that shows the ignorance of the left. I want no part of this crap in my life.

[RunForTheRoses]

I didn't know about this but it is not surprising, especially in New York, that Liberal Oasis.

[PaceAdvantage]

And after they fired the rodeo clown, they insisted all future clowns get sensitivity training.

Are you ****ing kidding me?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/politics/missouri-rodeo-clowns-sensitivity-training-obama-clown/index.html

[PaceAdvantage]

This just proves what a miracle it was that Trump won in the first place. There will never be another Republican president...of this I'm sure.

Democrats are so protected, I'm now convinced Trump DID conspire with Russia to rig the vote. How else could a Republican win in this day and age? An age where rodeo clowns get booted for simply wearing an Obama mask as opposed to the theater group that can freely go on killing the CIC night after night....

[Inner Dirt]

You want hypocrisy follow what ESPN does. It appears they are reversing course lately as they are bringing back Hank Williams Jr. I think they are getting the hint that their shoving liberalism down everyone's throats is driving a lot of people away.

[mostpost]

If you're a rodeo clown and you wear an Obama mask, you get fired and covered intently by CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/opinion/quest-rodeo-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/politics/missouri-rodeo-clowns-sensitivity-training-obama-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/missouri-obama-rodeo/

If you're a theater group and you depict the assassination of Trump every night, you get praised by people at CNN and the NYT stands by you every step of the way:

https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/869951908689137664
https://news.fastcompany.com/the-new-york-times-vows-to-stand-by-theater-despite-trump-julius-caesar-controversy-4040493
Are you really that ignorant. Read the first story you linked to and you will find out why that radio clown was fired. It was an insult to any black person and it was an insult to any person who has any integrity.

[MargieRose]

Are you really that ignorant. Read the first story you linked to and you will find out why that radio clown was fired. It was an insult to any black person and it was an insult to any person who has any integrity.
And the play in New York was............? It was 100 times worse!!

[mostpost]

If you're a rodeo clown and you wear an Obama mask, you get fired and covered intently by CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/opinion/quest-rodeo-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/politics/missouri-rodeo-clowns-sensitivity-training-obama-clown/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/missouri-obama-rodeo/

If you're a theater group and you depict the assassination of Trump every night, you get praised by people at CNN and the NYT stands by you every step of the way:

https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/869951908689137664
https://news.fastcompany.com/the-new-york-times-vows-to-stand-by-theater-despite-trump-julius-caesar-controversy-4040493
No, It depicts the assassination of Julius Ceasar every night, as it has done for 400 years. That he just happens to resemble a modern day person is just a theatrical device.

But here is the important thing. These were individual decisions made by different organizations. There was no grand conspiracy by the liberals.

Both organizations did the right think. The depiction of Obama was clearly racist. He had a broom sticking out of his butt, for God's sake. Obviously a representation of a tail. It was definitely not flattering mask.

Julius Ceasar was about an assassination. Many Shakespearean productions use modern settings. This one is no different.

[tucker6]

No, It depicts the assassination of Julius Ceasar every night, as it has done for 400 years. That he just happens to resemble a modern day person is just a theatrical device.

But here is the important thing. These were individual decisions made by different organizations. There was no grand conspiracy by the liberals.

Both organizations did the right think. The depiction of Obama was clearly racist. He had a broom sticking out of his butt, for God's sake. Obviously a representation of a tail. It was definitely not flattering mask.

Julius Ceasar was about an assassination. Many Shakespearean productions use modern settings. This one is no different.

Don't you ever pull a muscle contorting like that?

[AndyC]

No, It depicts the assassination of Julius Ceasar every night, as it has done for 400 years. That he just happens to resemble a modern day person is just a theatrical device.

But here is the important thing. These were individual decisions made by different organizations. There was no grand conspiracy by the liberals.

Both organizations did the right think. The depiction of Obama was clearly racist. He had a broom sticking out of his butt, for God's sake. Obviously a representation of a tail. It was definitely not flattering mask.

Julius Ceasar was about an assassination. Many Shakespearean productions use modern settings. This one is no different.

It seems that if 1 liberal finds something offensive then it is deemed to be offensive to everyone and it must be stopped or changed. If a person other than a liberal finds something offensive it is because they are out-of-touch, racist, homophobic or fill-in the character flaw of the week.

[mostpost]

You want hypocrisy follow what ESPN does. It appears they are reversing course lately as they are bringing back Hank Williams Jr. I think they are getting the hint that their shoving liberalism down everyone's throats is driving a lot of people away.

I couldn't remember why Hank Williams Jr. was let go, so I looked it up.

Williams, whose song "All My Rowdy Friends" has been the "Monday Night Football" theme on both ABC and ESPN since 1991, said on "Fox and Friends" that he thought House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner playing golf with President Obama "would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu ... In the shape this country is in?"

It appears that he compared Obama to Hitler. But he really didn't. He compared Obama's relationship with Boehner with Hitlers relationship with Netanyahu. Which is stupid on so many levels. Netanyahu was not born until four years after Hitler died, so it is unlikely they could ever have played golf together. Hitler killed millions of Jews-among others. Obama has not killed a single orange skinned merlot lover. But what is really stupid is thinking that a second rate country singer matters.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

No, It depicts the assassination of Julius Ceasar every night, as it has done for 400 years. That he just happens to resemble a modern day person is just a theatrical device.

But here is the important thing. These were individual decisions made by different organizations. There was no grand conspiracy by the liberals.

Both organizations did the right think. The depiction of Obama was clearly racist. He had a broom sticking out of his butt, for God's sake. Obviously a representation of a tail. It was definitely not flattering mask.

Julius Ceasar was about an assassination. Many Shakespearean productions use modern settings. This one is no different.

Perfect forum for a complete load of horseshit.

[PaceAdvantage]

The depiction of Obama was clearly racist. He had a broom sticking out of his butt, for God's sake. Obviously a representation of a tail.Who the hell but a racist would even think about that...a broom stick is now a tail...why not just put a fake tail on if they wanted it to be a tail? Why did they use a broomstick?

And did the clown really shove it up his ass? Or was he riding it like a witch?

Because the only way he's going to get a broomstick to look like a tail is to actually shove it up his ass, which I doubt he did. That would have certainly been a dismissal-worthy offense.

[PaceAdvantage]

No, It depicts the assassination of Julius Ceasar every night, as it has done for 400 years. That he just happens to resemble a modern day person is just a theatrical device.The clown was using a theatrical device as well...broomstick = witch. The broomstick represented Hillary, his secretary of state.

Why was he let go again?

[FantasticDan]

Hypocrisy indeed :D

https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/873994256834318336

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/874127984529158145

[FantasticDan]

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/874099366491037696

[PaceAdvantage]

Oh my god! You so did not refute anything I wrote, but thanks for playing.

I never said *I* was outraged at the play...now did I? I couldn't care less about the play. Let them do whatever the hell they want as long as it's legal.

All I'm saying is Obama was the most protected President in history in terms of the media...a media that went so far as to report endlessly about a damn rodeo clown wearing a freakin' Obama Halloween mask. Racism around every corner and under every bed when it came to Obama.

With so much racism everywhere, how the hell did Obama get elected in the first place? Somebody is lying.

[thaskalos]

All I'm saying is Obama was the most protected President in history in terms of the media...

I can't agree with this. I remember a Republican president who led our country into a bogus war...and he stood there announcing that the "mission was accomplished"...even as the body-bags with our dead soldiers kept arriving by the plane-load. And the media kept lobbing softball questions in rapid succession to him...without ever taking him to task for the mess that his "accomplished mission" had turned into.

[ElKabong]

I can't agree with this. I remember a Republican president who led our country into a bogus war...and he stood there announcing that the "mission was accomplished"...even as the body-bags with our dead soldiers kept arriving by the plane-load. And the media kept lobbing softball questions in rapid succession to him...without ever taking him to task for the mess that his "accomplished mission" had turned into.

Maybe the press didn't hammer GWB so hard because the Dem party leadership was largely also on board with invading Iraq. You've surely seen the youtube vids where Clinton and several Dem leaders jumped onboard with the idea that invading Iraq was a good idea.

Your comment on "accomplished mission" is off base, and you know it. The banner that read "mission accomplished" was directed at the ship he landed on that had troops aboard that did indeed complete a mission. As a former military member, I appreciated that a POTUS actually commended troops in a sincere manner. Most of us did. For those that didn't, you're entitled to opinion based on your inexperience on the subject

[PaceAdvantage]

To this very day, Bush is routinely mocked and derided for the Mission Accomplished thing...and I remember back in the day when this actually occurred, he took PLENTY of heat for it...

[thaskalos]

To this very day, Bush is routinely mocked and derided for the Mission Accomplished thing...and I remember back in the day when this actually occurred, he took PLENTY of heat for it...

Not one member of the mainstream media had the balls to give Bush what he deserved during that time-period.

[PaceAdvantage]

Not one member of the mainstream media had the balls to give Bush what he deserved during that time-period.Does 5 months later count?

Cover of Time Magazine "Mission NOT Accomplished"

https://web.archive.org/web/20101117165608/http://www.time.com:80/time/magazine/0,9263,1101031006,00.html

But you're right...pretty much everyone had nice things to say about Bush after that speech...including guys like Chris Matthews, Brian Williams and Bob Schieffer, and outlets like WaPo and NYT, etc. etc.

But that's back then, when people still held at least some respect for the office and POTUS.

[Tom]

I can't agree with this. I remember a Republican president who led our country into a bogus war...and he stood there announcing that the "mission was accomplished"...even as the body-bags with our dead soldiers kept arriving by the plane-load.

Not true.
Your timing is off.
You trying out for a job at CNN?

[reckless]

Not one member of the mainstream media had the balls to give Bush what he deserved during that time-period.

And the very same mainstream media lacked those very same balls by not attacking all those Democrat senators who voted to go to war.

[Tom]

Let's not forget the proven lies that MSM told about Bush long before he was even POTUS...remember the cBS anchor who forged documents?

Let's not forget PA;s infamous video where all those prominent dem-o-cowards said SH had to go.

Yeah, memories are pretty poor around here.