If you have any doubt as to whether the rodeo incident was racist

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22. I'm not sure who made the movie. "Our side" (as in DU) sure seemed to get a kick out of it though.

It won awards. Lampooning politicians, including Presidents, has been common practice since we've had Presidents. I don't have a problem with that in a general sense.

The "bobbling" of the lips thing I have a problem with, if only because lips have been part of the black stereotype. It seems as though this story, as all stories do, has grown though. At first, it was just the "bobbling" thing. Then it seemed to morph into something larger than life, what with people in the crowd reportedly screaming "kill the n*****!" and some stupid shit about a broomstick. It's like the old game called "telephone". The more times it makes it around the circle, the more outrageous the story gets. That's to be expected.

To me it's overblown, and not a little bit hypocritical. In this very thread, a poster called for *'s hanging, and here we are arguing about a caricature in a rodeo and people are even calling for the Secret Service and DOJ to investigate.