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'Obama' wears straightjacket, crowd goes insane

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Company orders 'diversity training' for hundreds of employees

It’s hard to decide which is scarier: a grinning “Barack Obama” wearing a straightjacket or the reaction to his appearance at one company’s annual Halloween costume party.

An employee of Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., must have thought he had the costume contest all sewn up when he sauntered into the party wearing an Obama mask and a straightjacket.


Photo: WZTV-TV
And he probably couldn’t believe his luck when he and his two pals actually won the third-place trophy for their Halloween skit “VIP Security,” according to local TV station WZTV.

However, soon after their shining moment, a snafu erupted over their Obama schtick.

“I think it is very, very offensive,” C.E. Timberlake, a local pastor, told the TV station. “And really, that shouldn’t have happened.”

Company officials weren’t impressed either after a photograph of the costumed trio began circulating around the office.


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Is this the first President in our history that is off limits when it comes to jokes and ridicule?
 
Freedom of expession is officially dead.

Why?

Because one company didn't like what their employees did?

Or did NSA agents turn up and take him away, torture him, arrest his entire family and eventually have him executed (Like what would happen in a country that really had no freedom of expression).

Far right wingers like yourself can never seem to get enough of feeling victimized by something or other.
 
Why?

Because one company didn't like what their employees did?

Or did NSA agents turn up and take him away, torture him, arrest his entire family and eventually have him executed (Like what would happen in a country that really had no freedom of expression).

Far right wingers like yourself can never seem to get enough of feeling victimized by something or other.
Um, yea. We were not the ones having a cow about it. Those employees now must go through mandatory "sensitivity" training. I dont remember anyone having a cow when Point Break came out and people were dressed like presidents, some still alive, robbing banks.
Oh yea, they were white.
 
White guilt is about the only thing blacks in America have going for them--well maybe white teenagers who act black as to rebel until they have their own bills to pay and say to hell with saggy pants. If I were a black person, I would leave the US they are so horrible.
 
Um, yea. We were not the ones having a cow about it. Those employees now must go through mandatory "sensitivity" training. I dont remember anyone having a cow when Point Break came out and people were dressed like presidents, some still alive, robbing banks.
Oh yea, they were white.

Exactly what I was thinking.
 
PC is killing this country.
 
Um, yea. We were not the ones having a cow about it. Those employees now must go through mandatory "sensitivity" training. I dont remember anyone having a cow when Point Break came out and people were dressed like presidents, some still alive, robbing banks.
Oh yea, they were white.

I agree that it seems stupid to do that. But, this is the company's doing, not the government's. The First Amendment only applies to laws and the government, but a private business can decide that they don't want political speech if they don't want it. From the "source"(WND, really?):

The company also admonished employees about wearing costumes “with political, religious, ethnic or gender-based overtones.”

Which seems as if they just don't like that sort of thing going on.
 
Freedom of expession is officially dead.

Is this the first President in our history that is off limits when it comes to jokes and ridicule?

Were the people in question jailed or something? No? Didn't think so.

The idea that Obama is "off limits to jokes and ridicule" is asinine. Like, weapons-grade crazy talk.
 
Um, yea. We were not the ones having a cow about it. Those employees now must go through mandatory "sensitivity" training. I dont remember anyone having a cow when Point Break came out and people were dressed like presidents, some still alive, robbing banks.
Oh yea, they were white.

It's not "mandatory," they can always quit! Free market, baby!
 
PC is killing this country.

"PC" is a meaningless term now, used by conservatives as a shorter version of "I want to say whatever insensitive thing pops into my head without being criticized for it."
 
Company orders 'diversity training' for hundreds of employees

It’s hard to decide which is scarier: a grinning “Barack Obama” wearing a straightjacket or the reaction to his appearance at one company’s annual Halloween costume party.

An employee of Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., must have thought he had the costume contest all sewn up when he sauntered into the party wearing an Obama mask and a straightjacket.


Photo: WZTV-TV
And he probably couldn’t believe his luck when he and his two pals actually won the third-place trophy for their Halloween skit “VIP Security,” according to local TV station WZTV.

However, soon after their shining moment, a snafu erupted over their Obama schtick.

“I think it is very, very offensive,” C.E. Timberlake, a local pastor, told the TV station. “And really, that shouldn’t have happened.”

Company officials weren’t impressed either after a photograph of the costumed trio began circulating around the office.


Read more at ‘Obama’ wears straightjacket, crowd goes insane


Is this the first President in our history that is off limits when it comes to jokes and ridicule?

I would tell the pastor that his thinking that freedom of expression has limits to this extent is offensive... oh, and that there is no god.
 
"PC" is a meaningless term now, used by conservatives as a shorter version of "I want to say whatever insensitive thing pops into my head without being criticized for it."

PC is a liberal term invented to restrict people's Freedom of Speech.
 
PC is a liberal term invented to restrict people's Freedom of Speech.

This shows you clearly don't understand what Freedom of Speech means.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. If someone was being jailed for speaking out against Obama, then you could say their freedom of speech was violated.
 
Why?

Because one company didn't like what their employees did?

Or did NSA agents turn up and take him away, torture him, arrest his entire family and eventually have him executed (Like what would happen in a country that really had no freedom of expression).

Far right wingers like yourself can never seem to get enough of feeling victimized by something or other.

It's all a vast far right wing conspiracy...

You've got it wrong my friend, you can't call the Right the evil, heartless tyrant's who despise the oppressed, the down trodden, and then say they're wallowing in their victimhood...

There is no reason for the PC police on this... Obama and the Obamaphiles from the word go has been pouty little man-childs about his delicate sensibilities...
 
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It's all a vast far right wing conspiracy...

You've got it wrong my friend, you can't call the Right the evil, heartless tyrant's who despise the oppressed, the down trodden, and then say they're wallowing in their victimhood...

There is no reason for the PC police on this... Obama from he word go has been a pouty little man-child about his delicate sensibilities...

What on earth are you talking about?

This has absolutely nothing to do with Obama. A company took action against political speech that violates its guidelines for employee conduct. That's it, end of story.
 
This is nothing but Obamaphiles protecting their Precious...
 
What on earth are you talking about?

This has absolutely nothing to do with Obama. A company took action against political speech that violates its guidelines for employee conduct. That's it, end of story.

Yeah , I seen where what was in my head didn't make it to the post, fixed it for ya...

Of course, for someone going about telling others what they "obviously know nothing about" you'd think you'd catch the meaning by inference, but...alas...
 
Um, yea. We were not the ones having a cow about it. Those employees now must go through mandatory "sensitivity" training. I dont remember anyone having a cow when Point Break came out and people were dressed like presidents, some still alive, robbing banks.
Oh yea, they were white.

Freedom of speech restricts the government. Your employer has no particular obligation to sponsor your speech when they don't like it.
 
There's no need to start political argument during a business Halloween party.
 
"PC" is a meaningless term now, used by conservatives as a shorter version of "I want to say whatever insensitive thing pops into my head without being criticized for it."

Arguably the dumbest thing ever typed in DP history. You should be proud of yourself.
 
This shows you clearly don't understand what Freedom of Speech means.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. If someone was being jailed for speaking out against Obama, then you could say their freedom of speech was violated.

After reading some of your posts tonight jail time would not be questioned by anyone here when they hauled you away
 
Arguably the dumbest thing ever typed in DP history. You should be proud of yourself.

You don't think that conservatives piss and moan about "PC" way too often? It's one of those terms that's been so beaten into the ground it has lost all meaning. Don't like my take on it? Tough.

After reading some of your posts tonight jail time would not be questioned by anyone here when they hauled you away

What.
 
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