Let's stipulate that what went down last weekend at the Missouri State Fair was boorish and inappropriate.
In a performance captured on video and posted on YouTube, a rodeo clown wearing a mask of President Obama is run down by a bull as the announcer eggs on a cheering crowd. But the reaction to the stunt has become over-the-top hysterical. Consider:
* The clown has been banned for life from the Missouri State Fair.
* The fair announced all its rodeo clowns must undergo "sensitivity training" before they can work again. Think about that. Sensitivity training . . . for clowns.
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The boorish "rodeo clown"
* The event's announcer resigned as head of the state Rodeo Cowboy Association and is now being investigated for "inappropriate conduct" by the local school district where he is superintendent.
* The Missouri NAACP is demanding the Justice Department and the Secret Service investigate the "targeting and inciting violence against our president."
Now compare this reaction to that which greeted the 2006 faux-documentary "Death of a President." That was a film about a supposed assassination of George W. Bush, complete with a graphic scene of the then-president being shot in the chest. Sensitivity training? Federal investigations? Hardly — it won the international critics prize at the Toronto Film Festival, among other honors.
We're not going to eliminate tastelessness. But we long for the days when a simple apology would suffice.
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