Saturday, August 06, 2011

Must not criticize Obama at an American university

We read:
"The University of Tennessee bookstore has quit selling packages of breath mints that satirize President Barack Obama. Officials pulled the product, which were called 'dissapoint-mints,' after state Rep. Joe Armstrong (a Democrat) visited the bookstore and told the manager he found the mints offensive.

Armstrong told The Knoxville News Sentinel that UT uses federal and state funds and should be sensitive to what he called 'politically specific products.'

Bookstore director David Kent said the bookstore previously carried mints that satirized former President George W. Bush and said no offense was intended."

Source

Universities were once the place where governments were most likely to be challenged and mocked, and that was defended as right and proper. But criticizing a black socialist is sacrilege, of course.

2 comments:

A. Levy said...

I'll bet you can still buy your Che T-shirt there, and a poster of GWB dressed as Hitler. Perhaps eliminating their federal grants and subsidies would help them get back to reality?

Anonymous said...

It's OK to make caricatures of George Bush as a monkey who likes to eat bananas and play with his own shit and eat his own shit and throw shit at other monkeys and rub the shit on the wall to spell out "I don't care about black people." BUT don't make fun of Obama! He's black, it's not OK to make fun of a black man cause he's black!! It's racist right? Puhhhleaaase.

Leftist hypocrisy in action folks.