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In reply to the discussion: UPDATE Shameful Missouri State Fair stunt smears Obama [View all]marble falls
(60,231 posts)44. Hey! How about this latestdevelopment? I've read right wing crapola claiming the left did as bad to
Reagan and Bush. Never ever happened.
'Course Dick Tuck did plant a pregnant Chinese woman at a campaign stop SF's Little China that read in Mandarin "Nixon's the One!" in '68. But this is different. Its hate and racism.
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I agree that "hate" is out of control. And believe it's extremely dangerous.
SleeplessinSoCal
Aug 2013
#12
It's an industry. Bill Press wrote a book on it; Infowars and Beck make millions off it.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#73
Suppressing the negative is often no more than new-fashioned book burning, and that never
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#4
They are proving that their hatred is race related and nothing else. Bigots will be bigots.
appleannie1
Aug 2013
#6
Hear a rumor: to be fair and balanced, next night Rush and a donkey were going to....
Jerry442
Aug 2013
#16
Fuck Missouri. Fuck Obama haters. Fuck anyone that has looked at the man cross-eyed.
millennialmax
Aug 2013
#22
What is it with people from the rural areas of the U.S. .. are they that disengaged?
YOHABLO
Aug 2013
#25
Sadly I think so. I've driven cross-country now several times over the past year or two,
RKP5637
Aug 2013
#29
Rural area media only has a few voices, and they are viciously RW. All others have been shut down.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#75
Last year Todd was defeated by fifty-five percent to thirty-nine percent.
another_liberal
Aug 2013
#65
"TO LEARN WHO RULES OVER YOU, LEARN WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE." --Voltaire
Ako1915
Aug 2013
#116
Even if Rmoney won 60-40, that's still least at 40% that paid for that bs. Why would you offend
bloomington-lib
Aug 2013
#32
Just e-mailed everybody I could. Totally uncalled for and unquestionably racist. This has to be ....
marble falls
Aug 2013
#34
Hey! How about this latestdevelopment? I've read right wing crapola claiming the left did as bad to
marble falls
Aug 2013
#44
Its nice to see them react so quickly, but I agree with you: apology or CYA? More CYA than apology.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#91
Evidently the people that cheered the stupid stunt are not "better than this".
Boomerproud
Aug 2013
#108
Here's the schedule for the people who run these events for the rest of the fall:
Judi Lynn
Aug 2013
#55
There would not have been a racist element if the clown had made a thing about Bush's lips. This....
marble falls
Aug 2013
#45
Well, I suppose not for Bush. I guess it's only immoral if the target of the mockery is black.
Pterodactyl
Aug 2013
#114
Missouri went for Obama in 08 if I'm not mistaken, so I'm not sure some up the stuff mentioned
silvershadow
Aug 2013
#82
Rural Missouri?!? A natural disaster will demonstrate a country boy will NOT survive without
Dawson Leery
Aug 2013
#104
"We’re going to smoke Obama, man.” I believe "smoke" is a euphemism for "shoot with a gun"
wordpix
Aug 2013
#111
FAMILY FRIENDLY? But it's Missouri - a lot of families may actually SUPPORT that clown!
alp227
Aug 2013
#112
backwards racist redneck losers predominate in rural Missouri? Shocking! nt
geek tragedy
Aug 2013
#118