Missouri State Fair’s Lynching Mood Racism: If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it IS a duck.

Perry Beam, who was among the spectators, said ‘everybody screamed’ and ‘just went wild’ as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask.

“‘It was at that point I began to feel a sense of fear. It was that level of enthusiasm,’ Beam, a 48-year-old musician from Higginsville, said Sunday, referring to the reaction from the crowd that filled the fair’s grandstand.

“He said another clown ran up to the one wearing the Obama mask, pretended to tickle him and played with the lips on the mask. About 15 minutes into the performance, the masked clown had to leave after a bull got too close, Beam said.”

Beam also said:

“It was the usual until the very end at bull riding. As they were bringing the bulls into the chute and prepping them … they bring out what looks like a dummy. The announcer says ‘Here’s our Obama dummy, or our dummy of Obama.’ They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening. It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”

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It gets worse. From Riverfront Times

The announcer is heard saying, “I’m excited! Yahoooo! We’re gonna smoke Obama, man! You ready? Obama, they’re coming for you this time!”

He says, “As soon as this bull comes out, Obama don’t you move! He’s gonna get you, get you, get you, getcha!”

“Obama, watch out for those bulls!” he says at another point.

The Missouri State Fair received more than $400,000 in taxpayer funds this year. In a state that re-elected Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill after the infamous Todd Aiken “legitimate rape” comments, Mitt Romney did win Missouri by about 9% of the popular vote — a 55/45 split.Missouri has a Democratic governor Jay Nixon.

Watching this footage, you would think that few citizens of Missouri support the democratically-elected president of the United States. Update: note that The Kansas City Star reports that Mark Ficken’s attorney says he wasn’t the announcer; that the clown was. Ficken says the cown was wearing a microphone. To be determined. We are quoting credible news reports saying that Mark Ficken was the announcer. We will change our reporting when the facts are clear. Read on Clown banned from Missouri State Fair amid outrage over Obama act.