# Lynch in effigy white Repub woman? A-OK in W Hollywood! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 27, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715 "2008-10-27T02:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/61 "2008-10-29T21:32:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Mannequins have clear positions. > > 😛 But they’re still _flexible_ positions aren’t they? Did anyone else find the moniker WeHo funny? As to the OP I was going to say I can’t wait for Nov 5th for all this to stop. But I fear it will never stop. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/62 "2008-10-29T21:49:19Z")
C’mon, people…this is CLEARLY a metaphor for the way that the McCain campaign hung Palin out to dry, dangling her to the Gotcha Media Liberal Elite like bait on a hook. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/63 "2008-10-29T21:57:47Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > Mostly around the elections, and those of us who don’t enjoy this sort of thread, don’t usually post. Anyway, what country are you in, and are you saying that people on opposite ends of the political spectrum there _don’t_ have strong feelings of animosity towards each other? I’ve talked politics with people from Germany and the UK, and they feel pretty strongly about their issues, too. I’m from Australia, and although people have strong opinions about politics (and I come from a family which covers the whole political sprectrum, just about), there isn’t this sort of intense hatred for the _candidates_ themselves, in what I’d call the mainstream. There are always nutters on both sides, but I can’t remember hearing serious implied or explicit calls for assassination from ‘regular’ people, whatever their political persuasion. Maybe I just hang around people who are too civilized. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/64 "2008-10-30T16:57:45Z")
I just posted on the UK-Obama-effigy thread. That’s far worse than the Palin thing because of its anonymity, the fact that it’s on a college campus with what I think is a sizable black presence in its student body, and of course the historical record of lynching. At least the W Hollywood guys did it openly on their own property & took responsibility for it. Btw, they also are reportedly taking it down after talking to the Mayor who asked them to do it. So kudos to them. Yeah, I’m a McCain-Palin guy & I opened this thread to indulge in some RO. But I do find the UK Obama incident truly disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/65 "2008-10-30T17:25:35Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So, it’s ok to lynch Palin in effigy because she’s not a black man? > > Would it simply be a tasteless decoration to have Obama getting raped in effigy as a lawn ornament? He’s not a woman. You trying to make Obama/Palin comparison? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715/66 "2008-10-30T17:36:41Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > C’mon, people…this is CLEARLY a metaphor for the way that the McCain campaign hung Palin out to dry, dangling her to the Gotcha Media Liberal Elite like bait on a hook. Oh damn, I just saw this. You won the thread! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynch-in-effigy-white-repub-woman-a-ok-in-w-hollywood/469715.md?page=3)