{"id":20261,"date":"2013-08-28T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20261"},"modified":"2013-08-28T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:11:52","slug":"some-perspective-on-the-rodeo-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20261","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective On The Rodeo Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being banned from the Missouri State Fair<\/a> for life for being a rodeo clown<\/a> with a President Obama<\/a> mask, Tuffy Gessling is speaking out.<\/p>\n

On Monday Ed Morrissey<\/a> at Hot Air<\/a> posted a story that provides some background on the incident. Tuffy Gessling has been dressing up as sitting presidents as part of his clown act since the days of Ronald Reagan<\/a>. This is the first time it has been a problem.<\/p>\n

The article at Hot Air concludes:<\/p>\n

…Gessling figures that people have lost their ability to laugh, at themselves and their favored institutions, and a large amount of their perspective, too…Well \u2026 at least during Democratic<\/a><\/em> administrations, anyway.\u00a0 The hysteria over a silly rodeo skit boggles the mind, and it\u2019s not benign, either.\u00a0 Despite the fact that presidential face masks have a long history in the US<\/a> for satire and entertainment, and perhaps especially so during the administration of Obama\u2019s predecessor, this new-found abhorrence of offending the dignity of a sitting President does not bode well for political speech of any kind in the future.\u00a0 Will wearing a presidential mask for satirical purposes during a possible Hillary Clinton administration be automatically assumed to be an act of unconscionable sexism, too, rather than just humor<\/em> or criticism?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lesson here is this: Toughen up, buttercups<\/em>. And I\u2019m not talking about Tuffy Gessling, either.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The history involved in the clown with a presidential mask incident makes me wonder what has happened to our sense of humor. This act has been perfectly acceptable for more than forty years. Why was the clown banned for doing something that he had been doing since the days of Ronald Reagan? There truly is a double standard here. There are much more important things to worry about in this world than a clown with a President Obama mask.<\/p>\n

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