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WASHINGTON -- A Washington company is hoping to make money off of people's frustrations with politics by selling "BastardBlaster" shooting targets, which feature the faces of President Barack Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
"BastardBlasters are a FUN, FAST and EFFECTIVE way to relieve extreme political frustration!" reads the company's website, bastardblaster.com. "A BastardBlaster is a regulation clay target that's only purpose is to be completely destroyed by your method of choice. Obama, Palin, Pelosi ... they are all here & the list keeps growing. Find the one that works best for you. BastardBlasters look great on a desk or wall but even better in a THOUSAND PIECES!!!"
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The site, which is run by Yipe Media Inc., features a video of a man with BastardBlaster clay targets attached to his jeans, one with Obama's face on it and another with Pelosi's face. A wooden paddle with the words "FLASH IT, BASH IT" appears and then smacks the man in the butt, smashing both of the targets into pieces. The paddle then shows the words, "HOPE & CHANGE, MY ASS!"
That video is one of a handful submitted to the website by people who have destroyed BastardBlasters in various ways. One video shows a man positioning an Obama target on the ground and then running over it with a Hummer. "That's what I wanted," the man says afterward. In another clip, some kind of explosive is shown wedged in between the Obama and Pelosi targets. It explodes, the targets shatter into pieces and a wooden sign drops down that says, "I Hate Those Bastards." In yet another video, a man is shown wearing a motorcycle helmet with a Pelosi target on it, with a sign above it that reads, "Pelosi Sucks." A wooden plank appears out of nowhere and whacks him in the head, smashing the Pelosi target.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/obama-pelosi-shooting-targets_n_1345685.html
Drale
(7,932 posts)if we put Rush's fat face on some targets?
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)the company does make one with Palin on them.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I think it is in bad taste for anyone to be put on targets. Nothing good comes from it.
calimary
(81,261 posts)And inexcusable. And the use of Obama's face and clear-and-pointed references to key Obama buzz words - is - um - time to alert the Secret Service and the FBI. And to threaten, or seem to threaten the Commander-in-Chief during wartime - isn't that treason???
bongbong
(5,436 posts)I's only treason if it's a repig being threatened, like the guy who went to jail for the burning bush joke.
IOKIYAR, as always and forever, in this conservative-controlled world.
It's conservative-controlled, yet conservative ideas are a minority (as poll after poll prove). Kinda like a whole-world apartheid situation....
excuse not to write
(147 posts)But I'm willing to bet Sister Sarah will soon be on FOX complaining about it, conveniently forgetting how she targeted Gabby Giffords.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)KT2000
(20,577 posts)I thought the Secret Service would investigate something like this.
It looks threatening.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)the Secret Service? This is encouraging some really dark activities on the part of some members of deranged right.