Attention Media: Dummy Wearing George H.W. Bush Mask Attacked By Bull at 1994 Rodeo

August 13th, 2013 5:23 PM

The Obama-loving media are totally apoplectic about revelations of a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask during a bull riding competition Saturday at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.

Maybe these folks should report that these things aren't that unusual at such events, and that in 1994, a bull attacked a dummy wearing a  George H.W. Bush mask without the world coming to an end, anybody being fired, or any press outrage.

Here's the report filed by the Philadelphia Inquirer on August 19, 1994:

The big white gate flew open. The bull came out bucking. The rider flopped from side to side and the bullfighters held back, letting the bull make his moves until the rider dropped off. Licciardello crouched in a heavily padded barrel, a human target should the bull decide to charge. Hawkins waited near the barrel, holding his big inner tube. A dummy with a George Bush mask stood beside the clown, propped up by a broomstick. [...]

T.J. Hawkins rolled out the big inner tube, and the bull lowered his head, shot forward and launched into the tube, sending it bounding down the center of the arena. The crowd cheered. Then the bull saw the George Bush dummy. He tore into it, sending the rubber mask flying halfway across the sand as he turned toward the fence, sending cowboys scrambling up the fence rails, hooking one with his horn and tossing him off the fence.

I bet you didn't hear about this incident.

Why do you think that is?

Regardless, maybe the Obama-loving media should report this event from almost 20 years ago to make it clear that rodeo clowns wear all kinds of masks - including of former presidents.

Frankly, it wouldn't surprise that this happens at rodeos on a regular basis and nobody bats an eye or bothers reporting it.

But dare wear a mask of St. Obama and the media go nuts.

(HT BizPacReview)