Color-obsessed liberal nitwits think Tea Party parade float was “racist”

KXLY in Spokane reports (via Memeorandum):

Naches community members are outraged at a Tea Party parade float in the Sportsmans’ Days Parade last weekend which featured a man dressed as President Barack Obama whipping a teenager with a riding crop.

Last weekend was the Naches Lions Club’s annual Sportsmans’ Days celebration. The three-day event featured everything from a fishing derby to a hot rod show to a teen dance. At 10 a.m. Saturday the grand parade got underway, but dozens of people who attended the parade were witness to something they didn’t quite expect.

Local members of the Tea Party sponsored a float, decorated to look like a Radio Flyer wagon, pulled behind a truck. In that truck a number of people sat holding signs that read everything from β€œObama Care” and β€œHealthcare Take Over” to β€œWasted Tax Money.”

But the thing that got people upset was a man in shirt and tie wearing a mask of President Barack Obama. In one hand he held a sign that read β€œHey Kids! Thanks for paying out debt!” In the other hand he held a horse riding crop which he snapped at a young teen in front of him pretending to pull the wagon by the handle wearing a shirt that read β€œFuture Tax Payer.”

β€œIt certainly came across as very racist to me, and really bad manners, bottom line, lack of manners,” Katy Uhlmer said.

Uhlmer was outraged over the float, saying that the float was seen by dozens during a parade meant for fun, not political agendas.

β€œA lack of respect for our presidency and our government, just everything down the line, it was really quite disturbing,” she said.

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Some say that instead of talking about government overspending, people are focused instead on how the Tea Party’s message was in bad taste.

β€œIf you have people calling in that were thinking it was racist and not liking the message as it was promoted, then I would say you’re not too effective,” John McGowan said.

Not to be outdone, the liberal gang at Think Progress featured this story at their website, emphasizing this part:

In one hand he held a sign that read β€œHey Kids! Thanks for paying out debt!” In the other hand he held a horse riding crop which he snapped at a young teen in front of him pretending to pull the wagon

The writer of the Think Progress “piece” – Ben Armbruster – was slick enough not to include his own opinion on whether or not he thought the float (seen in the video below) was “racist,” but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the clear insinuation. Liberals don’t know how to do anything else anymore outside of either implying or suggesting racism is the root behind any and all opposition to Barack Obama, or outright accusing the Tea Party of it, as we’ve seen the NAACP, prominent politicos, etc do.

The Yakima-Herald also did a “feature’ on the “controversy” surrounding the image of the man dressed as BO cracking the whip over a white youth:

Criticism has arisen over a float in the annual Naches Sportsman’s Days parade that some are calling offensive and in bad taste.

Sponsored by a local group that’s part of the tea party movement, the float resembled an oversized red wagon. Riding on it was a man wearing a President Obama mask, cracking a whip over a youth pulling the wagon.

Several people on the float carried signs critical of federal spending, Wall Street bailouts, tax increases and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who is locked in a re-election battle with Republican Dino Rossi.

Organizers of the Sportsman’s Days event said they’ve received complaints that the float and its depiction of Obama was “over the top” and involved a racial stereotype from the slave era more than 150 years ago.

And they say conservatives are obsessed with race?

Ladies and gents, I hate to sound like a broken record, but this is exactly how the media sets the narrative. They already have it in the backs of their minds, courtesy of not only their preconceived notions about conservatives but also the politicos and pundits who have falsely characterized the Tea Party as racists, and they wrote a story from that angle. The focus wasn’t on the Tea Party’s anti-big government message, it was on … Obama’s color. You can watch the video and see for yourself that there was nothing “racist” about “Obama” cracking the whip on the white youth. In fact, that’s in effect what he does now to people of all colors in this country – it’s just that the “whip” is excessive taxes, excessive regulation, government mandates on health care, more restrictions on your personal freedom, etc. If the liberal/politically correct nitwits upset over the Tea Party float had a one THINKING brain amongst them, that’s what they’d be really offended about – the fact that this President thinks an expanded centralized federal government better knows how to run your life than you do.

But instead, once again, we see folks who just can’t move beyond the color issue. Are they suggesting they would have been less offended had the youth pulling the wagon been black? Would they have been ok with it if a white president had been depicted as cracking a whip? The bigger problem here, beyond the race card being played, is that they’re offended that anyone would dare criticize President Obama. “Dissent is patriotic” – but only if you’re criticizing a Republican president. There are people out there, mostly on the left, who standby at the ready, waiting to be offended and sure enough, that’s what happened here. Washington is a liberal state, of course, so this isn’t exactly surprising, but it doesn’t make it any less infuriating.

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