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Ye shall know them by their fruits

20 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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clown, hate mail, missouri, racism, rodeo, State Fair

Shine the light.

Bob Yates received the following email this morning:

From: [….]

Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎August‎ ‎19‎, ‎2013 ‎7‎:‎10‎ ‎AM

To: [….]

Re: Your support of Beam who reported the clown wearing the Obama

One thing about people on the Left, they have double standards.   All the crap said about about President Bush that he was a coke sniffing murder.  In fact, a rodeo clown wore a mask of, him making fun of him in public, but, when someone makes a comment about Obama, the Marxist president, all the leftist get their panties in a wad.

The whole thing about Trayvon Martin is a very good example.  The kid was a drug user, burglar and thug.   But, yet the Left and the race whores by the name of Jackson, Sharpton and Obama come out against Zimmerman.

On the other hand, just recently a white boy in Florida was beat up by 3 blacks and your media whose heads are so far up their asses that the Jaws of Life couldn’t save mentioned nothing.

SO MISTER HIGH AND MIGHTY ASSHOLE, WHERE THE FUCK WHERE YOU WHEN ALL THESE DOUBLE STANDARDS OCCURRED?  OH, I SEE YOU HAD ONE FINGER UP YOUR ASS AND THE OTHER IN THE EAR DO NOTHING.

FUCK THE LEFT THEY ARE THE PATHETICALLY STUPID FUCKING MORONS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

[….]

We rest our case.

Previously:

At the Missouri State Fair last night (August 11, 2013)

Of state fair rodeo announcers and clowns: res ipsa loquitur (August 12, 2013)

You know you’ve struck a nerve… (August 12, 2013)

What happened in Sedalia didn’t stay in Sedalia (August 12, 2013)

We don’t get a lot of mail (August 13, 2013)

If heads rolling was a rodeo event… (August 13, 2013)

Seriously? (August 14, 2013)

The Rodeo, The Crowd, Their Clown & His Announcer (August 16, 2013)

Rodeo Quote of the Week (August 17, 2013)

Welcome to post racial America, part 3

05 Friday Nov 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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bumper sticker, hate mail, Johnson County, missouri, Obama, racism

Previously:

Wecome to post-racial America (August 10, 2010)

Wecome to post-racial America, part 2 (August 21, 2010)

The 2008 election will never be over.

Today, found stuck to the front door of the now closed Johnson County Democratic headquarters in downtown Warrensburg, Missouri:

This is across the street from the Warrensburg municipal building and a block further away from the police station.

Now what?

We get film festival hate mail

28 Tuesday Sep 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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ARRA, film festival, hate mail, meta, missouri, MVCAA, right wingnuts, stimulus, Warrensburg

A couple of messages got caught up in the e-mail spam filter. One didn’t get automatically deleted and we wonder if we missed additional erudite thoughts from the same individual.

Well, it appears we’ve expanded our reader base:

From:   Allen Wilson (backdoor_expert@yahoo.com)   Tuesday – September 28, 2010 6:23 AM

To: [xxxxx]

Subject: the film festival that was defunded

Attachments: Mime.822 (4730 bytes)

“Right wingnuts”??? Look at you, you dumbfuck liberal piece of shit. Even better, look at the photo of your goofy mug in on the schools’ website.

We rest our case.

Previously:

Suppose you held a film festival and right wingnuts didn’t want anyone to attend (September 10, 2010)

The show must go on (September 10, 2010)

Rep. Denny Hoskins (r) and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): The review is in – two thumbs down (September 14, 2010)

Veto Session Reviews for Rep. Denny Hoskins (r): great potental for a Razzie (September 15, 2010)

Rep. Denny Hoskins (r) and the Film Festival: because the arts never generate economic activity? (September 17, 2010)

Rep. Denny Hoskins (r) and the Film Festival: demagoguery, not oversight (September 18, 2010)

Rep. Denny Hoskins (r) and the Film Festival: that was then, this is now (September 20, 2010)

Rep. Denny Hoskins (r) and the Film Festival: no one knew about it… (September 21, 2010)

A short film about a film festival… (September 22, 2010)

Ky Dickens, the film festival, the Chicago Reader, and teabaggers (September 23, 2010)

Welcome to post-racial America, part 2

21 Saturday Aug 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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bumper sticker, Daily Star-Journal, Denny Hoskins, hate mail, Johnson County, missouri, Obama, racism, Warrensburg

Previously: Wecome to post-racial America

A letter to the editor was published in the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal on Monday, August 16th, with the heading “Racism targets Obama”:

Racism is alive and directed at our president.

Two very offensive racist bumper stickers were sent to the Johnson County Democrats PO box in Warrensburg. One had the donkey symbol with a strike-out mark and the words “2010 – Don’t renig.” The other had the initials BP above an oil blob and a photo of President Obama, with the words “Slickest and blackest disaster in US history.” I turned the second one in to post office staff to register a complaint with the post master, and kept the first in case people didn’t believe me.

I hope that local republican and conservatives are as offended as I am, and will speak out publicly to disavow these racist bumper stickers. Some people believe conservatives are closet (or not) racists and this is why. Please prove them wrong by speaking out against racism.

Jane VanSant, chair, Johnson County Democratic Committee

[with permission of the letter writer]

Curiously, the letter doesn’t appear to be available on-line.

It turns out that a local republican office holder did speak out and then some:

Hoskins Speaks Out Against Racist Bumper Stickers

…The letter to the editor regarding the bumper stickers called for local Republicans to speak out against racism, which I will gladly do, Rep. Hoskins said…

…No one has taken credit for sending the bumper stickers Rep. Hoskins continued, I was offended that the tone of the letter clearly implied that conservatives tend to be racists and therefore must have been the ones responsible for sending the bumper stickers. I have friends, business acquaintances, House colleagues, Johnson County Central Committee members and family of different colors. While I am clearly a conservative Republican, I am confident that I am the norm and not reflecting the attitude implied by the letter to the editor. Its ironic the very narrow-mindedness the letter speaks against is the same narrow-mindedness it projects by stereotyping conservatives as racists…

That’s right, because liberals and progressives would have every reason to anonymously send bumper stickers to the local Democratic Party post office box.

And, apparently, when victims ask others to speak out it’s their fault.

“…I hope that local republican and conservatives are as offended as I am, and will speak out publicly to disavow these racist bumper stickers. Some people believe conservatives are closet (or not) racists and this is why. Please prove them wrong by speaking out against racism…”

Uh, you did say you were offended and you did speak out. So, according to the letter writer you proved some people wrong. Is this a problem? Just asking.

Welcome to post-racial America

06 Friday Aug 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Tags

bumper sticker, hate mail, Johnson County, missouri, Obama, racism

The chair of the Johnson County, Missouri Democratic Central Committee went to the Warrensburg post office to check the committee’s post office box for mail today.

In the mail was a a plain envelope with the address of the committee and no return address. There was a 37 cent Ronald Reagan stamp and a 10 cent stamp for postage.

Contained in the envelope were two bumper stickers:

What passes for subtle racism from right wingnuttia in post-racial America.

The second bumper sticker, as described by the chair, had an image with “BP” and an oil slick on the left, Obama’s image on the right, and the legend, “Slickest and Blackest Disaster in U.S. History” in the center.

The chair turned over the envelope and the second bumper sticker to a post office employee at the counter who told her he would turn the materials over to the local postmaster. She retained the first bumper sticker.

Welcome to post-racial America.

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