We are living in strange but interesting times & I wouldn't trade it for the world. Our mainstream media news has become entertainment, rather than what it should be, non-
biased factual accounts of stories around the globe that have real relevance to our society. Mainstream media seams to be staying away from real news and instead choosing to focus on shallow small town events that should never make national news. With the recent debacle that is called the George Zimmerman trial, race tensions are up. We have been fed a steady diet of manufactured black vs white racism. I blame two parties for this mess. First the media, the same media that a month later is covering a story of a rodeo clown in Missouri that wore a rubber mask of president Obama during a routine rodeo skit. Because of this and nothing else, this man has received a lifetime ban and was blacklisted from working in any rodeo again. I have no doubt that some people were offended by this, but no more offended than any of the presidents for the last hundred years were. Do I need to remind anyone that we are still living in the land of the free? I'm not saying that I agree with making fun of the president, but I will defend your right to make fun of the president. In a free society people will get offended.
This poor rodeo clown has been ostracized and made to take sensitivity training because he practiced his first amendment right. Second I blame the President. Doesn't the president have any thing to say about this? One can only come to the conclusion that maybe the President agrees with this. Maybe our President thinks that he is above being teased, and his feelings are hurt. We can only guess because of the silence. Is President Obama being held to a higher standard that George Bush and Ronald Reagan? I hope not! Mr. President do you need to be reminded that you are not a king? -BDB (Google Images)
Below is the video link, you can judge the incident for yourself.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/missouri-obama-rodeo
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