It's A Rodeo Clown, People, And Clowns Too Have Rights

By MICHAEL RAMIREZ

You'd think by the policies they promote and the candidates they support that progressives would have a better sense of humor.

Rodeo clowns have been making fun of presidents for decades. Has everyone forgotten the incident at a Philadelphia rodeo in 1994, where a clown used a dummy with a George H.W. Bush mask to taunt a bull that subsequently impaled the dummy and sent the mask flying? No one was fired.

But now, the screaming has begun from the progressive lynch mob over a rodeo clown in Missouri doing the same thing wearing an Obama mask. These incidents may be in bad taste, but it's what freedom entails.
People, he is a rodeo clown. C-L-O-W-N.

The right to criticize our government and the right to do and say dumb things are part of the individual freedoms preserved by our Constitution and endowed by our creator.

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

Similarly, George Washington once wrote, "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

There was no clamor from progressives to fire anyone when a George W. Bush mask appeared on an impaled head clearly shown in a scene from the "Game of Thrones" on HBO.

There are far more important issues out there: The ObamaCare train wreck, a resurgent al-Qaida, increased global instability, the rise of Islamic extremism, the birth of a nuclear Iran, a jobless recovery, only 47% of the employed having full-time jobs, 47 million Americans in poverty, a $16.7 trillion deficit, the worst recovery in U.S. history, Bill Maher, Al Sharpton and Chris Matthews all getting paid to be on television, people actually watching "The View" ...
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Does the rodeo clown incident really deserve this much attention? Probably not. It probably would have been enough to paint ObamaCare on the side of any bull.

But then, that would be less like satire and more like the truth. And believe me, after seeing your new health insurance premiums, there'll be nothing funny about that.

Problem is, you can't saddle up a bait and switch. Progressives and the mainstream media would rather focus on anything but the dismal record or the "phony" scandals of this administration. They'll use any incident to solicit sympathy for this administration and to distract us from its failed policies.

And personal invective is never enough. Someone always has to lose his or her job — unless, of course, he or she is a fellow progressive or a government worker. Then you're violating their constitutional rights. That's an essential part of the progressive code of intolerance.

It all makes you wonder: Who really are the clowns here?

Ramirez is an IBD's editorial cartoonist and senior editor  IBD

I like the idea of a bull named Obamacare.  Just like this clown fiasco, its all bullshit.  Ramirez likes it too, as his cartoon shows: