Never let it be said that we’re not responsive!
Glenn Beck started the hashtag #WeAreAllRodeoClowns as a way of speaking out for free speech in light of the massive over-reaction to a Missouri rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask:
When I say #WeAreAllRodeoClowns, it's not really about rodeo clowns…it's about FREE speech. Will you stand? http://t.co/3xIdEcmvkj SJ
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 14, 2013
And soon it was catching on:
1st they came for the Palin effigys – NOT ==>Glenn: We are all rodeo clowns – Glenn Beck http://t.co/lV2yhpsLk2 #WeAreAllRodeoClowns
— Political Prisoner in CA Lockdown ? (@JCMentorMom) August 14, 2013
#Weareallrodeoclowns Should anyone who makes fun of the US Prez be required to take sensitivity training? Where is freedom of speech?
— Wordworm (@wordworm) August 14, 2013
https://twitter.com/timothyscarlson/status/367583465908076546
We need to peacefully resist liberal tyranny and stand for free speech! Enough already. #WeAreAllRodeoClowns
— Pastor Paul Holt (@pastorpaulholt) August 14, 2013
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/367641256689549312
There is some mockery on Twitter of the #WeAreAllRodeoClowns hashtag, such as this:
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A #WeAreAllRodeoClowns hashtag? These people truly are too stupid to live.
— Voncile Mayes (@allheavens) August 15, 2013
But getting offended by something a rodeo clown did is the epitome of super-smart?
Conveniently forgotten during all this is the fact that rodeo clowns have mocked politicians since before Barack Obama ever became a national figure:
In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy http://t.co/lRKFNbvTFo
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 13, 2013
Making fun of politicians @ rodeos been going on FOREVER Black bull fighter Leon Coffee in a Hillary Clinton mask. pic.twitter.com/2ZWMiG7CGZ
— Mike Broomhead (@broomheadKTAR) August 15, 2013
We don’t recall any mass outrage at the time either.