Prankster DMBurrows starts Local Milk People Website Sends Visitors to Statue of Lib Page

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The moment David Burrows read about President Donald Trump’s “local milk people” comment to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, he knew what he had to do. A self-professed “cheap, digital version of Banksy,” Burrows bought a URL, LocalMilkPeople.com, and then redirected it to the National Park Service’s Statue of Liberty home page.

“That’s what America is really about!” Burrows says in a phone interview with Newsweek. “We’re all from different backgrounds. I’m part Cherokee. We’ve gotten off track of what the Statue of Liberty stands for. It’s a beacon of hope for freedom for people who want to come here to better their lives and their families, and make America better as well.”

Burrows, who’s in his 50s and lives in Dallas, has been buying and selling URLs for years as part of his job in marketing (he worked for Mark Cuban and Yahoo before launching his own digital agency, M+M). On Wednesday, he watched the heated discussion between the White House’s Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jim Acosta about the symbolic import of the Statue of Liberty. Trump had sent Miller into a press briefing to talk to journalists about his controversial immigration legislation. Acosta pointed out that “the Statue of Liberty says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’ It doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country?”

http://www.newsweek.com/week-trump-jokes-local-milk-people-website-sends-visitors-statue-liberty-page-646752


I have tweaked my response from a DU thread yet again since yesterday. Now I am shamelessly hanging on to the cool guy's coat tails.

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1. cows are immigrants too

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2. I was just having this convo with a friend this week!

Seriously. I learned some new trivial facts. Guernseys are from France. Brown Swiss are from Switzerland I guess. Holsteins are from Germany. Angus and Ayrshire have kilts. Jerseys are from Jersey Shore (ha ha). None of them give chocolate milk.

I once went barefoot to a country fair. When I walked through the barn, the farmers laughed. But I do know the difference between a dairy farmer and a milk man.

Trump should too. How many times you suppose he told a variant of the milkman knocks on a door to make a delivery and a young wife answers in her negligee joke in his life. And the milkman ends up Chump Jr's father.