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RUSH: The Washington Post says, “Obama Rodeo Clown Incident Illustrates Nation\u2019s Continued Racial Divide.” Now, the purpose of this story in the Washington Post is to show what a bunch of redneck, right-wing, racist hicks were at the fair. One of the most telling signs that there were a bunch of redneck, right-wing, racists at the Missouri State Fair was this: “The Wednesday crowd at the fair, which lasts 11 days in remote Sedalia, was overwhelmingly white. Some vendors played right-wing talk radio from boom boxes at their tents.”<\/p>\n

Weeeeeeell, there you have it. <\/p>\n

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They had boom boxes with talk radio on it! They had to be racist. If they\u2019da had boom boxes with Jay-Z playing out there about hos and b-i-itches, it wouldn\u2019t have been racist, would it? No, it would have been art. That would have been high culture. The Washington Post piece also claimed the broomstick “that a broom stick was going up his backside” was a racist attack. That\u2019s the whole joke. The Obama clown was supposed to be a dummy<\/a> on a stick like a scarecrow, who suddenly comes alive when the bull chases. That was the schtick. That was the routine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an old rodeo tradition. <\/p>\n

All these learned leftists who disdain American culture don\u2019t even know that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, folks, the elitists in this country, the vast majority of them are on the left, and it is striking how ignorant they are of life in this country for the vast majority of people. <\/p>\n

Not only are they unaware of what life is like for the vast majority of this country, they think they know everything about it, and they hold it in contempt. The classic illustration is the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. Just the concept of a state fair is foreign to them. They don\u2019t have state fairs in Europe, and they don\u2019t have clowns that actually talk in Europe. I mean, in Europe they\u2019ve got mimes. When you don\u2019t say anything, youdon\u2019t offend anybody. <\/line><\/p>\n

They have people like Marcel Marceau running around, street urchins and corner artists sit around and mime things, but they don\u2019t offend anybody because they don\u2019t talk. So they don\u2019t have state fairs in Europe, they don\u2019t have clowns in Europe, and they don\u2019t have anything in Europe that\u2019s hayseed or hick. I mean, there\u2019s no modern equivalent to a cowboy in Europe. There\u2019s nowhere in Europe that\u2019s comparable to Louisiana. <\/p>\n

You\u2019d never have a show like Duck Dynasty ever made on the BBC.<\/p>\n

It just wouldn\u2019t happen — and if it did, they\u2019d be profoundly embarrassed and they would fire whoever ran the BBC if they ever put a show like Duck Dynasty on it. It\u2019s really striking. You know, the divide in this country is not racial, it\u2019s cultural. On one side, you have these holier-than-thou, phony, pseudo-intellectual elites who look with contempt on everybody who\u2019s different than they are, all the while preaching tolerance and understanding for the minorities of our country, the people who are put upon by the majority. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re always minorities based on the color of their skin or their gender, or their sexual orientation. But they have no idea. In the New York-Washington-Boston corridor, they\u2019ve got no idea. The LA-San Francisco corridor, they\u2019ve got no idea what goes on in 85% of this country, but they think they do, and they look upon all of it with disdain. So you get to the Missouri State Fair or the Texas State Fair or any state fair. Just the fact that there is one, it may as well be another planet, not a state. <\/p>\n

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The whole concept of a fair! What happens at fair? I mean, you go to a fair and you\u2019re dodging horse and cow manure and eating saltwater taffy and cotton candy and all this rotten stuff that kills you and corndogs and fried stuff. Yuk! Just the whole mental picture that they conceive of what would happen at a state fair is dirty. It\u2019s filthy. It\u2019s like Neanderthals. It\u2019s like caveman kind of stuff, and the men are dragging women around by the hair.<\/p>\n

The women and the men all (impression) “talk like this” and are doing nothing but going to church and they talk about abortion all the time, and it\u2019s embarrassing everybody. It\u2019s just a shame they\u2019re Americans. Outside of every four years when there\u2019s a presidential race, they view it all with contempt. So you have the Missouri State Fair, and there\u2019s a rodeo tradition, and it\u2019s been done with every president. Bush 41, many other presidents, celebrities. <\/p>\n

I must say, even the AP managed to report this part a couple of days ago, and they got fairly close to it. It\u2019s been ignored, but the AP did report it. Here\u2019s what they said: “The clown was meant to be imitating a dummy, according to Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association member David Berry…” That\u2019s the routine. The clown is imitating a dummy, like a scarecrow, and that\u2019s what the broomstick that the clown had in the back of his shirt means.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s supposed to be like a scarecrow. He\u2019s an idiot. He\u2019s an inanimate object that comes to life when the bull starts running towards him. That\u2019s the joke. By definition, the clown is a fool. The clown is an idiot. He\u2019s not a political commentator. By definition, a clown is out there trying to make little kids laugh and everybody else laugh. It\u2019s no mean feat, by the way, to stay out of the way of an onrushing bull. <\/p>\n

“They often dress as sitting presidents,” Mr. Berry said. That\u2019s even in the AP story, and the joke is not that the clown was the president. That\u2019s not the joke. They drag out this clown, this person dressed like a dummy, and all of a sudden the dummy just takes off running, frightened by an onrushing bull, and the clowns always dress up as political figures or whatever. But here\u2019s how the Washington Post described it:<\/p>\n

“At the rodeo here last Saturday night, a clown wearing an Obama mask stood on the arena\u2019s dirt floor propped up like a straw man with the appearance that a broomstick was stuck up his backside.” So they don\u2019t even describe it right. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. These cultural arbiters, these smarter-than-everybody-in-the-room people wouldn\u2019t dare attend a state fair, other than to do an expose and laugh about it and write a story about what is happening to our country.<\/p>\n

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“Look at what these people in our country actually do!” As such, just like they don\u2019t listen to this program and don\u2019t have any idea what happens here, they have no idea what the role of a clown is at a state fair. So they think that the clown had a stick up his butt making fun of Obama for a whole bunch of racist reasons. They totally misunderstand it, and of course the people involved are too frightened to fight this, which is another aspect of this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

The clown is now done forever. The state fair organizer is done forever. The governor, the lieutenant governor, the media, everybody is chomping down on this as though it\u2019s the greatest offense that has ever happened in humanity. And through it all, nobody will be trying to explain this for what it really is because there\u2019s nothing to be gained by it. The truth doesn\u2019t matter. The perception is all that matters, and scoring the political points.<\/p>\n

This clown incident is nothing more than the latest effort, opportunity, of the left and the Democrat Party to advance their agenda. Part and parcel of that agenda is tarring and feathering their opposition, mischaracterizing them, impugning them, discrediting them. So the clown in this instance is any Republican candidate for any office, or a radio talk show host, or whatever the left designates the clown to be. <\/p>\n

The whole event here is nothing more than an eagerly accepted, happily accepted event to advance the Democrat agenda. They\u2019re not really outraged. They\u2019re not really upset. They\u2019re not. They know exactly what this presents them. While at the same time, if somebody sat down and explained to them what clown acts at rodeos are all about, they wouldn\u2019t get it, wouldn\u2019t hear about it, wouldn\u2019t want to hear about it, wouldn\u2019t want to report the truth because that\u2019s not the point. <\/p>\n

This incident fits an ongoing, never-ending narrative that the left and the Democrat Party have established, and it fits that mold, and it\u2019s used for that purpose. All the while, people who really know what\u2019s going on don\u2019t have the courage to stand up and defend this because… Well, it\u2019s sad. You can\u2019t really blame \u2019em. What are they gonna do? You see the whole country aligning against you and what do you do? The path of least resistance is to tuck your tail between your legs and go away and hope people forget you and it, “the incident.” <\/p>\n

So when things like this happen, there\u2019s no pushback. I don\u2019t know how many people on our side even realize what this is and why it needs to be explained to people, and who the real culprits here are, and why the real egregious behavior is being perpetrated by people on the left. The real quote\/unquote “crime” here is not what happened at the fair. It\u2019s what\u2019s being done with this, \u2019cause it furthers the left\u2019s mischaracterizations and lies about their political opponents. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they seek this. They love this, in truth, folks. They love this. They act outraged, they act offended, they act like it\u2019s a hate crime. And, of course, their rank-and-file doofuses in their underwear and pajamas posting anonymous comments on their blogs actually do believe it\u2019s a hate crime and actually do believe it\u2019s all this. These irresponsible, drooling, slobber-infested, missing-a-bunch-of-teeth people posting their comments on their websites?<\/line><\/p>\n

They end up becoming a hate-filled army for the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

By the way, there\u2019s a story in The Politico today. “It is almost impossible to find an establishment Republican in town who\u00c2\u2019s not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be.” This piece is an illustration of why it is the Republicans have no hope, and you know why they have no hope? Because most of their voters are like the clown. It doesn\u2019t say that. Read between the lines. That\u2019s it: Most Republican voters hate gays, hate blacks, hate women, and they are preventing the Republicans from reaching out to people they\u2019re gonna need to win: Hispanics, gays, blacks, women, transgenders. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a perp here in this clown story, and his name, I believe, is Perry Beam, B-e-a-m. He is the one man band who did the video and has been pushing this everywhere he can. He\u2019s the guy feeding the media on this, and he says this in a Washington Post story: “You can disagree with a government policy, but that doesn\u00c2\u2019t prompt you to put a stick up his [backside] and incite the crowd to say how many of you want to see him be trampled by a bull.<\/p>\n

“If you\u00c2\u2019re a white man in a black mask in a former slaveholding state with a broom lodged in your rectum and you\u00c2\u2019re playing with your lips, you will be confused with a racist.” Except that didn\u2019t happen. The act is, the clown plays a dummy like a scarecrow. There\u2019s no broom up the rectum, for crying out loud! This isn\u2019t the New York Police Department. That happened to somebody named Abner Louima. That did not happen to Obama. <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Oh, Snerdley remembers that. <\/p>\n

This is absurd. This is outrageous. <\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve got a one-man band misrepresenting this to everybody, with some clever-sounding language: Slaveholding state, black man, white man, black mask, with a broom lodged in your rectum. Believe me, if that had been the case, that audience woulda walked out of this. The audience of the Missouri State Fair is not gonna sit there and watch something re-created that depicts a broomstick up somebody\u2019s rectum. They aren\u2019t gonna put up with that. That\u2019s not what happened. That\u2019s not what these clown acts are. <\/p>\n

The audience, had that been the case, would have left, because they would have been offended, as would any other common-sensical person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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