Darts shot at Obama likeness in Pa. carnival game

[Liberal_in_LA]

Darts shot at Obama likeness in Pa. carnival game

Associated Press August 4, 2010

The head of an eastern Pennsylvania amusement company has yanked a carnival game in which players shot foam darts at an image resembling President Barack Obama.

Irvin Good Jr. pulled the target-shooting game after receiving a complaint from a patron attending a fair in Roseto, about 65 miles north of Philadelphia. Good said Wednesday his Hellertown-based Goodtime Amusements company won't offer the game again.

The game featured a large painted image of a black man wearing a belt buckle with the presidential seal and holding a scroll labeled "Health Bill." Players could win prizes by hitting targets on the image's head and heart.

Good calls the game a "big mistake in judgment." He says he voted for Obama and the game wasn't meant to encourage violence against him


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/04/national/a123927D88.DTL#ixzz0vfYd92XY

[BeyondGeography]

1. Dumbass

:thumbsdown:

[Parker CA]

2. F-in knuckle dragging fools. nt.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. "a big mistake in judgment"?? Ya think??

He voted for Obama?? I bet.

[woodsprite]

4. Bet he didn't want the Secret Svc to knock on his door.

If he'd been up closer to Pittsburgh, nobody would have probably said anything about it. I had that area when I was calling for Obama's campaign and it was a rarity that I spoke to someone who would support Obama.

[impik]

5. Yea! Let's let them win in November!!!!

[JoePhilly]

6. Does that mean I can't put a picture of Sarah Palin in the urinals at the NC state fair??

Damn!!!

[Canuckistanian]

7. Tst, tsk. And during WARTIME, too

How....... UNAMERICAN.

[Dawson Leery]

8. The same people to told us to 'shut up and sing'

are now the same ones making death threats all because they (Republicans/Thugs) LOST an election.

[Phx_Dem]

9. Yep. Funny how that works.

There are no bigger hypocrits and haters in all the world and the U.S. GOP.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

11. I'll never forget what they did to the Dixie Chicks. NEVER.

*** still listening to "I'm Not Ready To Make Nice" *******

[Dawson Leery]

12. That case revealed much about the

far right (as well as the Country "Music" Community). One Merle Haggard (of all people) came to their defense, the rest of the industry blacklisted them (as well as many artists who were angry that the chicks had so much early success, unlike themselves i.e Reba and a slew of reactionary male 'artists').

[xultar]

10. Says he voted for Obama. MY FUCKIN ASS HE DID. Classic teabagget

bullshit with the health care bill in the picture.

[slackmaster]

13. Nerf darts. The "game" is repugnant to me, but so is the proliferation of versions of the story.

And the hyperbolic level of outrage from a population of forum members that likely includes people who applauded the Iraqi reporter who actually threw shoes at the previous President.

Unrec on general principles.