It’s a Rodeo in Arkansas, Y’all. What Did You Expect? The Intelligence of Alabama Preachers?
There was a rodeo in Arkansas. They made an effigy of President of the United Damn States of America Barack Obama.
Then they let a bull knock it around.
Apparently, many Greenwood, Arkansas rodeo fans’ idea of family entertainment includes violent displays of hate toward President Obama. A crude effigy was produced during the rodeo on Saturday night, and then violently beaten and destroyed in response to an announcer’s call to the audience: “Who wants to rip Obama’s head off?”
They are all going to hell. Except for the bull. It isn’t his fault. I mean, a bull can’t even read or nothin’. I know, I know. That does not separate him from the rest of the crowd.
Thanks to Anthony for the heads up.
Don’t worry Juanita–it was all in the family. They all walk stooped over and have the same gait that their wives (mostly first cousins and a few half sisters) have. So don’t worry, it was like a nasty, private, racist, hateful family, pseudo lynchi—I mean picnic.
My beloved late grandma would have said, “Jesus wept”.
I’ll say—please somebody drop a semi truck full of birth control pills in the drinking water so these people don’t
1multiply.
I felt sick reading this. There is nothing snarky, humorous, or thoughtful that can be written about this. It is just plain evil. Evil, Evil, Evil.
2They were going to make an efigy of Mitt, but even with an entire rodeo for supply, they couldn’t find enough caca del toros to fill him with.
3Looks like all ten of the watchers were having a great time, I thought there was a law about wishing harm to a sitting President,but maybe not. If we are lucky they all got drunk and shot their toes off after being all proud of the strides for freedom that happened that day…I am so tired of stupid…sigh
4I thought we had grown up enough to hide our bigotry. So sad. I sure hope President Obama’s children do not hear of these things.
5The only good news in this dreadful story is the rows of empty seats. Goes well with the empty heads and empty hearts. The bull is unlikely to have gone to Sunday School and therefore would never have thought up anything so tacky.
6from my comfortably fortified fortress in north east Texas…
A sad disrespectful display. I should be surprised but somehow I’m not. We should all give our brothers (and sisters) from Arkansas a break and make no jokes about them.
OK just one, I accompanied as an adult my young teen-aged son and 50 or so other Boy Scouts to a summer camp in Arkansas. We got lost. The guy at the gasoline station said “this road”, “that road”, “take a left at the pile of Volkswagens”. Sure enough there were three 60’s V-dubs, one resting on two, marking the otherwise easily missed road. That it was easier to pile V-dubs than say rocks or even say paint a sign is beyond me.
Anyway once in camp the adult camp staff separated the Scouts from the Scouters so they could hit us up for a money donation as well as sign up for camp next tear. Pass. They did mention that we should marvel at the effects of their recent poison ivy eradication project. I laughed out loud. As we turned past the pile of V-dubs I noticed poison ivy growing 50 feet up a light pole.
Gotta take Arkansas folk with a grain of salt. They see things differently.
7From the day Obama started running for office this ‘stuff’ started. Now think back to when Bush was in office and having a high old time stomping all over our civil rights – y’all remember AT&T’s snooping right? And them being given a pass for allowing all that wire tapping? What did the democrats do? Did they incite violence, hatred, racism, etc? No. I’m not saying there weren’t a few loose canons but what I heard most was a call for impeachment. Think the only reason it wasn’t pushed harder was fear of his VP. Whenever I hear one of these idiots say ‘oh it’s not about race’……yeah right. I have yet to hear the republicans come out and firmly denouncing this…er…..stuff. Nooo milk toast double speak is what you’ll hear. No freakin morals. Zip.
8We all know this, but it helps me to deal with it to vocalize it.
The people who conceived this stunt, who participated in its execution and those who sat and watched it in active or passive consent to it are truly embarrassments to our country. They represent the dregs of our society.
Shameful.
9Arkansas has crazytowns, too. Here in north Arkansas, we have the headquarters of the KKK. Ignorance is rampant. What are we to do?
10In a true depiction, the effigy would have said Middle Class and Poor People – and the bull would have been wearing a GOP banner.
11Hey, Sgt. Mike, we’re neighbors!
I grew up in Arkansas. Sort of. Maybe it’s more accurate to say I spent much of my childhood there. Here’s a not-joke:
When you put 32 Ozark women in a room all at the same time, what’ve you got?
…A full set of teeth.
Anyway, I’m shocked, Arkansas or not. As a lifelong rodeo fan this is just not appropriate. It must not have been a sanctioned rodeo; organizations such as the New Mexico Rodeo Association or others that cater to rookies have more class than this. And no pro rodeo would have allowed it to go on.
12@ks sunshine, well said.
13“They are all going to hell. Except for the bull.”
He is going to hamburger which amounts to the same thing, sizzling on a hot grill.
Ugly though this is, just like the outhouse at the Montana GOP convention, it is a good thing to know about it, to be aware. You can’t fight ignorance by ignoring it.
As MaryK said, this was likely not a sanctioned or pro rodeo.
14People outraged over rodeo stunt –
http://www.4029tv.com/news/arkansas/river-valley/People-outraged-over-rodeo-stunt/-/14498626/15396860/-/13ux0y1/-/index.html
15I wish I knew how to take the bone out of people’s heads that keeps them from thinking. I’ll bet the instigators of this “stunt” are shocked, SHOCKED, I tell ya, that a lot of folks are “offended” by their actions. Why, it was supposed to be HIGHlarious! What’ll you bet they issue one of those non-apology apologies? “We’re sorry if anyone was offended.” Bunch of schmucks*, the whole lot of them.
* A Yiddish word that Momma won’t know–in keeping with the language rules at
16. . . the shop.
17One bull in the arena, bull crap beyond measure in the stands.
18from the formal dining room of stately Hacienda Mike….
MaryK Croft, I warn any of my adoration of ______ jokes. I have Aggie, Zero U, and Texas University relatives, as well as the various Germans, Polacks and Hispanics who had the poor judgment to marry into my family. I can offend groups in multiple languages using basically the same material. Efficiency! Deming would be soooo proud.
For example, what do you call six ______ at the bottom of the ocean?
19A darn good start.
You fill in the blanks!
I may be mis-remembering, a term my grandmother loved to use, but the unbridled animosity and hatred being bandied about this election season is very disturbing to me. What is happening to my America? We’re all immigrants here, except for proud peoples our ancestors tried to eradicate and stole it from.
20Yeah but some anonymous commenter posted a mean comment about George W Bush on a blog somewhere once so … BOTH SIDES DO IT!
21I don’t suppose it would help the cause to have the folks behind this little display, and especially the “rip Obama’s head off” clown, get a visit from the Secret Service, but I like the mental image.
22These are not Christians. They will all burn in hell & I hope before their time. So ignorant. Don’t they realize Jesus was a brown man? He would not approve.
23Oh well, somebody has to give Texas a place to wipe its boots. Looks like Arkansas is the spot.
24This gene pool needs a little Clorax and then some sunshine to get rid of the stain these people left.
25What does this teach the children?
Sgt. Mike…If I remember the lay of the landmarks you mentioned, I was told once that the town nearest that camp was proud of it’s past as a ‘sunset town’. I was told this about 12 years ago and the woman speaking was somewhat remorseful that things had become lax since that time.
On the camp. That camp was a favorite of the youth in my troop and I’m sorry that the staff there has started trying to secure future business in that manner. The program there used to be top-notch. And in all fairness, it should be mentioned that the V-dub cairn you used for a landmark is not on camp property.
26Another visitor to the salon tells a story about two sisters that were in a concentration camp, one of whom made it out alive. She relates this illustration of her sister’s character:
In the cell next to theirs, one of the guards was administering a ferocious beating to a fellow inmate, which these women had to experience as well by the sounds. The sisters were much traumatized, as one might imagine, and through her tears one sister kept whispering, “that poor woman, oh that poor woman…” The writer says, “She was not weeping for the victim, but the guard.”
I think that might be the appropriate response here. The jokes help get the bad taste out of our mouths, but the fact that these people are demeaning themselves so is tragic. Mob behavior is never pretty, and this is a splendid illustration of that fact.
On another note, @ Sgt Mike, I nominate Rick Perry for concrete boots and to be a REALLY good start to the six Aggies at the bottom of the ocean. Phil and Wendy Gramm make three. Any other nominations from the floor?
27Sorry Sgt. Mike, but offending people up there in Commerce is not in the cards.
28My Bro-in-law was a biggy in your college and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t make them get it.
My Momma once told a lady in Camden that a couple of hundred years ago somebody put up a sign pointing West that said “Texas.” Those could read kept going.
There are lots of biggies in our college here, the former East Texas State (we have a Sam Rayburn statue. He’s scary waving that gavel.) But the biggies tell me, “We’re not really Aggies.”
29MaryK,
30My step-grandmother graduated from Normal College after Mr. Sam.
My sister and former Bro-in-law graduated from East Texas State.
My daughter attended TAMU-Commerce and just graduated from TAMU-Kingsville.
Anothe Bro-in-law was assistant provost at TAMUC.
GO LIONS!!!
Bigotry never dies. It just transfers somewhere else. Or else just goes underground for awhile.
31from my heavily fortified listening post in north east Texas….
mikey has officially cranked me up about XXXX, that town. I won;t argue their pride in positions past. In 1999ish their pride was in all the drug money that floated their local economy. And I believed. With my own eyes I saw dozens of Lears, Gulfstreams etc bizjets parked at the local very nice airport.
32I see Bananas beat me to posting that link about local people being outraged over this rodeo stunt. http://www.4029tv.com/news/arkansas/river-valley/People-outraged-over-rodeo-stunt/-/14498626/15396860/-/13ux0y1/-/index.html
Bigotry is like termites… most people don’t know they’re infested with it until their house falls apart.
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