by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Friday, August 16, 2013

CLOWNING AROUND

We are living so far from the frontier life, it ain't funny.

So, the rodeo clown puts on an Obama mask and the announcer warns the "President" that the bulls are gonna run him over.  Ban them for life!  Investigate them, they may be terrorists!  Funny masks are not particularly my type of humor, but there was a time, not so long ago, when many of us laughed at stuff like this.  But no more.  We have no backbone.  We have become a timid nation.

I wrote in a post recently that I thought racism was rampant in this country.  I wonder whether this clown story doesn't tell us there is something else that is rampant...the fear of being called a racist.  Would there be this outcry if the President were white?  Was there an outcry when people wore masks of Reagan, Carter, Clinton?

Let me go further.  Racism is stupid because it judges and treats people not on the basis of their individual traits but on those ascribed to a group.  But we have a right in this country to be stupid, to be racist and not like a particular group of people, if we wish. That's what America is all about, that's what the exhilaration of being Americans was all about...your freedom to be you, to live your life and not some politician's view of how your life should be lived.  Can you believe that this Administration wants to regulate what face masks you can wear?  Wearing a funny face mask is not and ought not be a punishable offense!

Let's settle down and start laughing a bit more.

Check that.  Laughing a whole lot more.

PS:  The rodeo clown said "I am a clown and I know it  The President is a clown but doesn't know it".  Not so.  The President is not a clown.  He is dead serious in his desire to transform this country into a socialist state.

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