Comments on: Sock Obama Website: We Won’t Be Making Any

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:57:35 +0000

Oh no. I wasn’t a ploy Eric. Having transplanted from Boston in the Salt Lake Valley 15 years ago, I can assure you, they were dead serious.

The secretive and dominate culture so infuses this culture with a sense of superiority, exceptionalism really.

All of which lends itself to a kind of righteousness. The average Mormon “knows” something for SURE, that no one else knows.

The combination results in a toxicating brew of immunization from the mainstream’s standards of political correctness. (think about it. Do those polygamist wives (texas) seem embarrassed? I think not.

Add to that the Wild Wild West gold rush get rich quick mentality, and you get dead serious first-time entreprenuers.

For more flavor of the place, just google out state senator “Chris buttars” who happens to represent the same district as the Lawsons.

Nice job on the story!

By: 'Roots News: Recent round-up | Writes Like She Talks

'Roots News: Recent round-up | Writes Like She Talks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:33:42 +0000

[…] at Plunderbund pursued, nabbed and brought down the production of the very wrong and not even arguably racist object, The Sock Obama. I’d still really like […]

By: Bobolee

Bobolee — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:13:55 +0000

Y.A.Y!

At one point yesterday, the website couldn’t keep up with the requests, and seemed to shut down!