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PiscesPalin Halloween Decoration in Bad Taste?
A man in West Hollywood, California is under fire for displaying a life-size doll of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging from a noose. Behind her is an effigy of John McCain, engulfed in flames, emerging from the chimney. Chad Michael Morrisette, the creator of the display, defends his macabre installation: "It's Halloween time. It's time to be spooky." Not everyone is amused. The mayor of West Hollywood, Jeffrey Prang, has asked the Morrisette to take the installation down: "I strongly oppose political speech that references violence."
Politics aside, some of the decorations that are up in people's yards this year are pretty friggin' scary. Automatronic skeletons that move when you walk by can really freak out younger kids.
Maybe it's time to just go back to putting a pumpkin on the front stoop and calling it a day?
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Lets be honest here. If she was a Democrat the media would be backing its removal but because she is a Republican the “NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA” could care less. That is why the “NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA” thinks when a Democrat minority runs for office its HISTORIC but when a Republican minority runs its attack attack attack time. Look at how the “NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA” portrayed Pelosi as the first female speaker of the house, Obama as the first black president candidate, as Hillary as the first female president candidate is HISTORIC. HAVE YOU HEARD ONCE, JUST ONCE, ANY PART OF THE “NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA” DECLARE Sarah Palin RUNNING AS VP AS HISTORIC? NO YOU HAVENT. BECAUSE YOUR ALL BEING PLAYED LIKE FOOLS BY THE “NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA”. THE WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE PISSED AT THE WAY PALIN HAS BEEN TREATED. IT’S SEXIST AND PRETTY DMAN PATHETIC!!!!!!
Of course it’s a hate crime. What if it were Obama?
I found this to be horrible. It someone didn’t like Barack and hung him like that there would be outrage over it. From the news coverage this morning, the 2 guys who did like they were “partners” and I wonder how they would like it if their neighbors put a big sign in their yard degrading homosexuals and called it “Freedom of speech” People should just try and use common sense and keep their opinions to themself. Remember the old saying “if you can’t say something nice, than say nothing.
Such a display says more about the people who did it then Ms. Palin.
People hang ghosts in their yard this time of year in the same fashion, with a noose, and nobody has a problem with it. But hang a mannequin the same way and it’s a travesty? Where do you think lynched ghosts come from?
There would be an uproar if someone hung Obama like that. But it seems to be ok to hang a white woman and nobody says anything. It is reverse discrimation.
Ok, everyone knows that if someone made a doll of Obama and did that, people would be screaming that it was racism and a threat all because Obama is making history they would find a way to get that “decoration” took down. But since its a Rupublican no one is going to do anything about it but ASK them to take it down.
Funny - I used to cut the media machine a break and tried to believe that it wasn’t just me who thought there was a big tilt here. I agree, if that mannequin resembled Obama or Biden in any way, it would have been portrayed a racist, right-wing outrage. It may not be a crime, but it is certainly hate.
Bad taste, sure. Hate crime, no.
I can’t stand Sarah Palin but I still think this is way over the line.
Oh please. You know if this were Obama everyone would be jumping on this as a massive hate crime. Rev. Sharpton and the like would be plastered all over the newswaves about this atrocity.
Let’s be fair, take it down.
The fact that you even think there is a question here tells me more than I want to know about you.
Sara Palin is a joke of a cadidate who literally thinks she can get by on a wink and a prayer. But this display crosses the line. It is ugly and not funny and I wish it would be taken down. I would like to point out, however, the display would be more loaded and menacing if Obama was the subject because hundreds of black people have actually been lynched in this country as a form of systematic domestic terror, and because Obama has received death threats credible enough to result in arrests. In a similar way, a Swastika is a more loaded symbol when scrawled on a Jewish person’s home than on a Christian person’s home even though both are ugly.
I’m not much into politics, but personally, I find this to be humorous. People are going back and forth, back and forth to “If it was Obama, hate crime.”
I agree with the creator of this display that it’s just Halloween, he’s having fun.
But instead of just having McCain and Palin, why not have all four? It’d make more of a joke about politics.
no one will tell them they have to take it down because they are gay boys….gay boys who need attention obviously….respect us respect us….. so we can all talk on eggshells around them while they trash other people…i believe one of them mentioned this as “artwork”…ummm….sigh…nothing more boring than stupid gay boys that need attention
I am so sick of being forced to know what people do with their lovers. Should there be a masturbaters rights parade next!!!!!
Yeah, I’m going to try this with a Barry dummy, and see how it flys. Or at least a Barry mask w/devil horns.
Lauren h and cara, you are hateful people for your comments. and I’m sure you will burn in your hell you fear so much
And as for in bad taste a guy can’t make a halloween display, but its okay for Palin to encourage her supports to shout kill him (obama) and terrorist at her speeches
As my Mom used to say - This is rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. This is not funny or a good Halloween decoration. This is not a hate crime, but very bad taste and should be taken down.
disgusting out of control thats whats wrong with these people then you expect our children to learn how to love and respect others with this behavior impossible. teach your kids to respect others we would have a better world.
I think this is completely in bad taste. Lynching is far from funny in any context.