Hangin' Palin Off the Hook, Flamin' John Stays

Effigy-gate is dead, just a day after it began.

The couple who hung up a Sarah Palin mannequin off the side of their West Hollywood house have taken the pseudo-Sarah down, after city officials put heat on them. They'd gotten an incredible amount of attention -- and anger -- from around the world for the Halloween-themed display.

Chad Michael Morrisette tells the LA Times he decided to take down the hanging Sarah after meeting with WeHo mayor Jeffrey Prang. He's leaving up the flaming John McCain, however.

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61. 58. THESE TWO FRUIT POPS ARE LUCKY NO NONE LOBBED A BRICK THROUGH THEIR WINDOW!!!!!...ASSH@LES........

Posted at 3:07PM on Oct 30th 2008 by noitall

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Sorry to say, you're looking at it the wrong way, It's more likely in that community that some righteous civil libertarian victocrat is organizing a protest against the cruel and unfair way the "artists" have been treated. Trust me on this one.

Posted at 3:36PM on Oct 30th 2008 by R.Zimmerman

62. For God's sake you ignorant twits - all you have to do is Google "Obama hangings" and they ALL come up - how about "Obama hanging George Fox University" If you google that it comes right up and it happened IN SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is wrong no matter who is hanging, but are you that flipping naive to think that no one has hanged an Obama dummy? I live in one of the states I mentioned, and it WAS big news for days. How about the fools at the Palin rallies with the hanging Obamas, and the monkeys with Obama stickers, do you think THAT'S ok?? Just go to "The Palin Mob" on You Tube - it's all there and I'm not making it up!! If you still refuse to believe then there is no hope for you and I choose to believe that it is because you are either ignorant, racist, or both and think it's ok to hang Obama, but not Palin...

Posted at 4:46PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Go Go Obama Jeep

63. 3. IF THAT PERSON PUT AN OBAMA DUMMY UP THERE AND A NOOSE AROUND HIS NECK, OMG! THE RACIAL CARD WOULD BE HEARD ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND PEOPLE WOULD RIOT IN THE STREETS! HE WOULD HAVE EVERY BLACK SAYING IT WAS BECAUSE HE IS A BLACKMAN!

Posted at 9:09AM on Oct 30th 2008 by VOTEMCAIN

I understand what your saying and I do agree somewhat, but I couldn't help but find this a little amusing. :)

Posted at 4:49PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Mr. Jones

64. they should hang CHADS mother that would be funny or hang CHAD by his PR CK If he has one in his pants

Posted at 5:05PM on Oct 30th 2008 by a.j.b.

65. 13. What do you expect out of California? Nothing but quacks and queers. That's why the state is burning up and falling in the Pacific. Proud to be from south Georgia.
Posted at 9:37AM on Oct 30th 2008 by Tammy

That is my take. You couldn't pay me to live there. They are failing miserably under Governor Arnold S. & it couldn't happen to a nicer state.

Posted at 6:00PM on Oct 30th 2008 by romil1

66. BASICALLY , DNC LEFISTS OR SOCIALISTS CAN HATE OR PROMOTE LYCHING THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS BEACUSE IN THE SICK MIND OF A SOCIALIST , ANYONE THAT DOES NOT ADHERE TO A SOCIALIST MOTTO DESERVES TO BE HANGED.

Posted at 5:56PM on Oct 30th 2008 by DNC Lefits , Hate , & their lyching tactics.

67. These comments are absolutely insane....There have been several incidents against the Obama campaign that have gone unnoticed. He's getting death threats, ppl at the McCain Palin rally's are yelling "kill him", making references to Osama Bin laden saying Obama Bin Lyin, the fake attack on the crazy girl and several Obama hangings throughout the campaign. I don't condone the action but to say that black ppl would riot if it were Obama is rediculous. I AM BLACK, Obama is not 6% black he is Black and White there is no percentage. Let's put it this way, I have alot of respect for John McCain and all he's been through for our country, I have respect for Sarah Palin aceepting the position they have placed her in, however McCain's views are your typical republican banter and throughout his campaign I have heard nothing but shots at Obama, but what i have heard from Obama are sound plans to try to help our country for the future not just political gain for himself. Do you honestly want someone in office that doesn't remember that he has 13 houses, doesn't use a computer or surf the internet. These are all things we use in today's society. I mean these are not the things that qualify him obviously, but he just seems so out of touch with today's world.

Posted at 5:54PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Voting 4 Obama

68. Well I guess this shows how much "tolerance" these two men have. You know, that's the liberals favorite word.

Posted at 6:01PM on Oct 30th 2008 by gk1

69. "Some jerk already did have a obama dummy hunged up with a noose for Halloween and no blacks didn't riot you racist prick."

Hmmm...I find the excellent grammar that seems to be so prevalent among you Obamanauts highly amusing...

Posted at 4:03AM on Oct 31st 2008 by Ashley

70. GOP. Founded in 1854 by Anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party quickly surpassed the Whig Party as the principal opposition to the Democratic Party.”
Basically the GOP is the only party to terminate slavery against the wishes of Democrats like Jim Crow & others (Note: George wallace & the start of the kkk were all Democrats)
Now in the 1990s the rise of the Nation of Islam & Race Baiting (due to in part to spike lee’s movie) were fueled by Democrats. In 2000s the 911 conspiracy theory was fueled by Democrat Michael Moore’s Movie (just about every hate group out there thinks 911 was a conspiracy).

(No offense to moderate democrats , but I thought I would bring up this reality)

Posted at 6:30PM on Oct 30th 2008 by The History of the DNC

71. I agree completely with VoteMCAIN, if they even dare put up obama, the couple would never hear the end of it, they wouldbe called racist and it would be considered a hate crime. It's one thing after another and people are so naive to Obama, do you all really think he will change the U.S. ina good way.

Posted at 6:21PM on Nov 2nd 2008 by RED

72. Two people were arrested today for the effigy of obama. Why not arrest the person of the palin effigy. What i dont understand is that the blacks are always whining about racism. The blacks have United negro college fund, black colleges. BET channel, black marches, black beauty pageants, black magazines i could go on and on. What i have mentioned is only for black people only. This is RACIST. how do they get away with this. Al sharpton, Jesse jacson, and the NCAAP
are completely racist. Media always talking about how blacks are pouring into register for obama wheter hes qualified are not hes a black man. If a white person was to say that hes a member of kkk. Why does blacks have a double standard and the whites let them get away with all black events and dont protest.

Posted at 9:20PM on Oct 30th 2008 by biracial family

73. For comment #3. There was an Obama dummy hung from a tree at one of the universities in my state. They found the people who done it and arrested them on the spot and they were charged with Conduct 2nd, Burglary 2nd, and theft by unlawful taking. Other words you are correct. They are making a BIG deal of this. Now it should only be fair that they do something with the couple it the above story.

Posted at 10:08PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Tired

74. For heavens sake, one hanging Plain and the country goes berzerk - DUH!!!!!!!!!!
Posted at 1:59PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Go Go Obama Jeep

Not going berserk but am angered, as a woman, that those despicable incidents you raised of Obama effigies are being investigated as hate crimes, but the mayor asks nicely for the Palin effigy to be removed and the sheriff says it's only a hate crime when it happens to Obama.

Women have been treated pretty badly throughout time and in this country as well. In fact, women (The Nineteenth Amendment – 1920) didn’t get the right to vote until after people of color (The Fifteenth Amendment – 1870).

So yeah, maybe we haven’t come a long way baby. Because this shows me, we have so much further to go.

You can despise Palin’s beliefs, and exercise your right and not vote her ticket. However, you should treat her with the same respect you would treat anyone including yourself.


Posted at 11:09PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Melissa

75. I'll be sooooooo glad when this farce of an election is over. I don't think either side is worthy of what we need right now. It's just talk talk talk.

Posted at 11:37PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Tes

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