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| Tom Davis (Photo courtesy All Access) |
Earlier this week, comedian Kathy Griffin posed for pictures with an effigy of Donald Trump's severed head. The photos created a backlash from people of all political persuasions, and got Griffin fired from some of her comedic gigs.
The incident, outrageous as it was, wasn't any more shocking or outrageous than the many incidents that occurred during Barack Obama's presidency in which effigies of the first African American president were hung or burned. There was even that time that Ted Nugent waved two machine guns on a stage during a performance while yelling "Obama, he's a piece of shit! I told him to suck on my machine gun!" Conservative newspapers have even printed cartoons of Obama that are blatantly racist:
Those incidents seem to have fallen into the Cities 92.9 memory hole.
TOM DAVIS: "You know, I can think of the times that many people disagreed with the politics of Mr. Clinton, or Mr. Obama, not once did I see a severed head of those presidents anywhere in social media. However, when it comes to a person of the conservative persuasion, you know, death is always something that seems to be kind of like the tickle spot for some of those who just can't stand conservatives."
I don't recall seeing a severed head of those other presidents on social media either, but I've seen things that were just as bad, if not worse, from the conservative side of the spectrum. And when it happened during the Obama years, Obama and those around him - being classy people - said absolutely nothing. Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr on the other hand, used this incident as an opportunity to tarnish the entire left:
DONALD TRUMP Jr: "Disgusting but not surprising. This is the left today. They consider this acceptable. Imagine a conservative did this to Obama as POTUS?"
Of course, the only people who have to imagine a conservative doing something like this are those like Trump Jr, who chose to be willfully ignorant during the Obama years.
