Quote:Outrage as Missouri State Fair rodeo clown dresses as Barack Obama while the announcer goads audience into baying for the 'President' to be run down by a bull
I don't support inciting a crowd to cheer running down any rodeo clown wearing a presidential mask. Period.
Stunt condemned as racist and demeaning by families who witnessed it
Republicans join calls to boycott taxpayer-funded event for being anti-American
By Jessica Jerreat
Published: 19:41 EST, 11 August 2013 | Updated: 11:58 EST, 12 August 2013
Visitors to the Missouri State Fair have revealed their disgust over a stunt involving a rodeo clown dressed as President Obama.
At the fair, paid in part by tax dollars, an announcer tried to whip the crowd up into a frenzy, asking who wanted to see President Obama 'run down by a bull'.
The stunt on Saturday has raised fresh concerns about how ridiculing President Obama is nothing more than thinly veiled racism.
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One of the other rodeo clowns wobbled the lips of the Obama mask, and the man wearing it was forced to run after a bull gave chase, according to a man who witnessed the event.
A couple who had taken a foreign exchange student to the fair to show them American life said they left in disgust after seeing the offensive stunt, according to the Kansas City Star.
According to the paper, a Facebook post by Perry Beam said: 'The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a bull. The crowd went wild.'
He added that the announcer repeated the question, getting 'louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather'.
Senator Claire McCaskill called the event shameful and unacceptable, according to CBS St Louis.
'The young Missourians who witnessed this stunt learned exactly the wrong lesson about political discourse - that somehow it’s ever acceptable to, in a public event, disrespect, taunt, and joke about harming the President of our great nation,' Ms McCaskill said.
The Jackson County Democratic Party also issued a statement that called the rodeo 'a show as ugly any you could see.'
'Encouraging physical harm to the President, whatever the party, is not acceptable and should not be tolerated,' the statement read.
Anti-Obama sentiment is high in rural Missouri, where the President lost 60-40 per cent to Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.
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