By GottaLaff
Michael James at DailyKos spotted several racist t-shirts targeting Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) being sold on the website Road Kill T-Shirts, which says that it sells “funny” shirts. Some of the designs featured a noose and Ku Klux Klan members chasing Obama:
Wow! Um, wow. "Funny" doesn't begin to describe them. Not even close. As you know, I write comedy, wrote for TV, still do for theatre productions, and hey, boyoboy, do I know comedy. These shirts are undeniably-- well, there are no words. I can barely breathe for all the--- We've gotta track down that freelancer (see below), and... throw him in a cage somewhere. For a long, long time.
Because I do know comedy, and guess what, "Road Kill" freelancer... those weren't funny. In the least. They were beyond vile. And you don't need to know comedy to know that.
The response that James got after he e-mailed them assured him that they'd pulled the offending shirts, and continued:
“We recently hired a freelancer to create designs and post them on our site,” wrote Mike from Road Kill T-Shirts. “We have teams of them and, unfortunately, these were put up in the last couple of days without approval. While the site can be edgy…I can guarantee you this is not the type of stuff we approve of.”Good riddance.
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